Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Excessive drinking during the pandemic increased rates of liver disease, transplants
Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Transplant centers across the United States are reporting more patients in need of a new liver than ever before, sometimes seeing double the number of pa...
Oct 09, 2023
Innovations in Alzheimer's treatment risk leaving Hispanic community behind, experts say
TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Evelin Miranda first noticed something was off with her husband, Eddie, about 10 years ago, when he started picking her up from work late. The...
Oct 07, 2023
First on ABC: 4M Americans have gotten latest COVID shot -- on par with last fall's vaccine rollout
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 4 million Americans have been vaccinated with the newest COVID shot as of Thursday, according to the latest government data, putting the uptake about e...
Oct 05, 2023
Child drug poisonings and firearm deaths have skyrocketed in America: Study
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Firearm deaths and drug poisoning deaths in children have spiked in the last decade, according to a new study in the United States. The study found an increa...
Oct 05, 2023
Saltwater creeping up Mississippi River may contaminate New Orleans' drinking water in weeks
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than a million people around New Orleans are now within weeks of saltwater polluting their water supply for the first time in 35 years as officials work around the clock to ...
Oct 05, 2023
After weeks of increasing COVID hospitalizations, is the summer peak over?
Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After weeks of increasing COVID hospitalizations in the United States, the number of patients seems to be trending downward, and experts say the summe...
Oct 04, 2023
More than 75,000 health care workers begin strike at Kaiser Permanente
pablohart/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente launched a strike Wednesday, with a coalition of unions alleging the health care system is engaging in unfair labor pr...
Oct 04, 2023
What to know about the looming health care workers strike at Kaiser Permanente
ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers across the country are planning to strike Wednesday morning over what a coalition of unions allege are unfair labor prac...
Oct 04, 2023
Teen athlete has hands, legs amputated after rare complication from the flu
Edgar Uribe(NEW YORK) -- Mathias Uribe was a healthy 14-year-old kid looking forward to his freshman year of high school, during which he planned to join the cross-country team and continue to play pi...
Oct 04, 2023
Pennsylvania woman dies of West Nile virus, 1st case in Pittsburgh area this year
Joao Paulo Burini/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A Pennsylvania woman in her 80s has died after contracting West Nile virus, health officials said this week. The woman lived in Pittsburgh and is the first ...
Oct 03, 2023