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ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For decades, doctors have encouraged patients to monitor their cholesterol levels, with studies showing that heart disease risk increases with high levels of low-d...

Kelly Livingston/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- For Belinda Mosby, the nightmares started in March. Mosby had been working at Carelon Behavioral Health, one of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline hotline c...

In this photo illustration, ZYN nicotine cases and pouches are seen on a table, Jan. 29, 2024, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- A type of nicotine pouches designed for adul...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(OREGON) -- Oregon government officials have declared a 90-day state of emergency to address Portland's growing fentanyl crisis. Gov. Tina Kotek, Multnomah County Chair Jessic...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addict...

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Elon Musk announced that his company Neuralink implanted a brain chip in a human in a preliminary clinical study. If research studies continue to look promising, de...

SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is warning that several people may have recently been exposed to hepatitis A at a groc...

Bilanol/Getty Images/STOCK(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning clinicians to remain on alert for measles cases due to a growing number of infections. Betw...

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For years, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been the most common reason infants are hospitalized in the U.S. and has hospitalized thousands of elde...

Haleon is voluntarily recalling eight lots of Robitussin Honey CF Max Day Adult and Robitussin Honey CF Max Nighttime Adult to the consumer level. CREDIT: FDA(NEW YORK) -- With cold and flu season und...