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What are Alabama lawmakers proposing to protect IVF?
Penny Rogers Photography/ Getty Images(MONTGOMERY, AL.) -- Alabama state lawmakers introduced three new bills that aim to protect IVF treatments amid intense backlash over a state Supreme Court decisi...
Feb 28, 2024
7th measles case confirmed in outbreak linked to Florida elementary school
Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WESTON, Fla.) -- The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials T...
Feb 27, 2024
West Virginia lawmakers pass bill allowing religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements
ER Productions Limited/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Monday that will eliminate school vaccine requirements for those who claim religious exemptions, but...
Feb 27, 2024
What’s next for IVF patients in Alabama?
Joe Sohm/Getty Images(MONTGOMERY, Al.) -- More than a week after the Alabama Supreme Court upended in vitro fertilization access in the state with its ruling that frozen embryos are considered childre...
Feb 26, 2024
Physicians share concerns over IVF treatments pausing after Alabama court ruling
ABC News(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) -- Dr. Beth Malizia, an Alabama physician, went through 12 years of training to provide patients with fertility care. But the doctor and co-owner of Alabama Fertility says h...
Feb 25, 2024
Small study shows a possible reason some long COVID patients experience 'brain fog'
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- According to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Trinity College in Ireland used blood tests to measure certain biological markers ...
Feb 23, 2024
Children's MMR vaccine rate drops 2%, 250,000 kindergarteners vulnerable to measles: CDC
Courtney Perry/For the Washington Post(NEW YORK) -- National MMR coverage has dropped 2% from the 2019-2021 school year to the 2022-2023 school year, which means approximately 250,000 kindergartners a...
Feb 22, 2024
Nearly 3 million asthma attacks could be prevented among children with cleaner energy: Report
P Deliss/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Nearly three million asthma attacks in children could be prevented by 2050 if the United States transitioned to electric vehicles and clean power, according to a new...
Feb 21, 2024
Women get same exercise benefit as men, with less effort, study finds
Guido Mieth/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new study not only confirms known research that regular physical activity can prolong life and lower a person's risk of dying, it also finds that women experien...
Feb 21, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court ruling raises questions about IVF access
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Experts are speaking out after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos qualify as people under state law, a decision that critics say could ...
Feb 21, 2024