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DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Despite having a very effective and easily available vaccine, measles outbreaks have continued to pop up in the United States over the last...

Yulia Naumenko/Getty Imagess(NEW YORK) -- A new meta-analysis of more than a dozen studies found that drinking 100% fruit juice is linked to weight gain in children. ABC News medical correspondent Dr....

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Deaths from cancer have declined by 33% since 1991, averting 4.1 million deaths. However, more people are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before, and at an e...

Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- A group of doctors in Philadelphia is offering free measles vaccines o...

lacaosa/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Run down, depressed, or trying to stay positive? Don’t reach for a tub of ice cream or a big bag of chips. There’s growing evidence that you can boost you...

KAKEBreak out the gloves and hats: A record-breaking Arctic cold snap is bringing dangerously cold temperatures to much of the United States. In Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, football fans brave...

MoMo Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Respiratory virus activity continues to remain elevated across the United States but there may be some signs that a peak has been reached for at least one vi...

pablohart/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Cindy Mullins was a healthy 41-year-old mom of two when she went into the hospital nearly six weeks ago for surgery on kidney stones. On Friday, Mullins is finally ...

Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Break out the gloves and hats: Dangerously cold temperatures are headed to the Plains and the South over the weekend and early next week. Sioux City, I...

Jason "Jelly Roll" DeFord testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee, Jan. 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C. -- Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Grammy-nominated s...