Health

Jason Marz/Getty Images (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — South Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban Thursday, claiming it violates the state’s constitution. The 2021 so-called “heartbeat act” bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is typically around six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant. It included exceptions for rape, […]

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the mpox outbreak first struck the United States over the summer, experts said it was mostly affecting minority men. But new federal data published Thursday shows that among the few hundred cases diagnosed in women — less than 3% of total U.S. cases — […]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization is warning that a new omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible strain to date. As COVID-19 hospitalizations rise in some parts of the Northeast — where the subvariant makes up about 75% of new cases, according to data from the Centers for […]

Courtesy Sabiha Aoudia (CHICAGO) — A 5-year-old in Chicago has overcome the odds to celebrate her fifth birthday. Now, her family is raising money for her to receive a life-changing surgery. When Alice Cloe was born on Nov. 22, 2017, she was unable to breathe on her own and later, doctors diagnosed her with a […]

Elisa Wells/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, many pregnant people living in states where abortion is now illegal are expected to turn to medication abortion, also known as the abortion pill. For now, it is still legal in most states to […]

Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States Postal Service can deliver prescribed abortion medication, even in states where abortion access is severely restricted, the Department of Justice announced. The department’s Office of the Legal Counsel wrote in an opinion that pills being sent through the mail is not in violation of […]

CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the past six years, the Mediterranean diet has won the title of best overall diet in U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of best diets. The diet is endorsed by the American Heart Association for its cardiovascular benefits. The diet was shown to reduce the […]

Kmatta/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — In the aftermath of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s shocking collapse and cardiac arrest during Monday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, expert medical organizations highlighted the importance of bystanders learning to perform lifesaving CPR. “All of us need to learn CPR. People don’t realize that if someone is unconscious […]

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px (NEW YORK) — The sudden collapse of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin during Monday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals left millions of Americans in shock and anxiously waiting for news of his condition. “Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the Bengals,” the Bills […]

CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time ever, an annual ranking of best diets now includes diets that work best for the whole family. The flexitarian, Mediterranean and TLC diets all tied for first place in the family-friendly category of U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of diets. The […]