Health

ABC News Medical Correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton walks through Rock Creek National Park in Washington, D.C. with Walk with a Doc board member Chaun Hightower. (Paul Dougherty/ABC News) (NEW YORK) — A community health initiative that partnered with the National Park Service has doctors writing a “prescription” for wellness by getting more people outdoors. “When […]

Christina Aleksanian (GRANADA HILLS, Calif.) — A mom-of-three in California is speaking out after surviving two near-death experiences in a span of six weeks. Christina Aleksanian, 36, of Granada Hills, was recovering in the hospital after giving birth to her third child, a daughter named Stephanie, when she said she felt her hand start to […]

USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service (NEW YORK) — A public health alert has been issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service for ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. Raw ground beef produced by Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc. on March 28, 2024, is no […]

Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.) — People who attended a total solar eclipse event at a children’s museum in Indiana may have been exposed to measles, according to museum and health officials. An infected individual traveled to the event at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis on April 8 from out of state, the […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jazmin Evans is one of more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates who found out that an outdated medical test may have inappropriately calculated their need for a transplant. Evans, 29, was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in January 2012. She started dialysis and was […]

Texas Children’s Hospital (NEW YORK) — A 4-year-old girl was discharged from Texas Children’s Hospital on Thursday after waiting on the organ transplant waiting list for 1,025 days, or nearly 3 years. The staff at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston lined the halls on April 18 to give 4-year-old Arctura, who received a donor heart […]

Flavio Coelho/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Misty Stamm was working tirelessly to figure out the details: waking up early, the hourslong drives, booking hotels and finding doctors who could legally administer gender-affirming hormone therapy to her 16-year-old transgender daughter. Stamm is living in one of the 24 states where legislation is restricting gender-affirming health care […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Heat-related emergency room visits increased in 2023 in the U.S. compared to previous years, according to new federal data. Between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023, there were a total of 119,605 ER visits for heat-related illnesses, with 92% of those visits occurring between May and September, according to […]

Carlos Duarte/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Two couples have filed lawsuits against in vitro fertilization provider Ovation Fertility alleging its clinic destroyed their embryos when a lab employee wrongly used hydrogen peroxide instead of a sterile solution in an incubator. The couples allege that the clinic still used the embryos despite knowing they were nonviable. […]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are evident in every state, even those with robust health systems, according to a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund. In the analysis from the organization, which is aimed at promoting equitable health care, researchers found health system performance is markedly worse […]