Health

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 earlier age, according to a major new report from the American Cancer Society. Experts say one big reason cancer deaths have declined […]

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. Darien Sutton joined ABC News’ Good Morning America to explain the key findings from the new study, published Tuesday by the Journal […]

KAKE Break 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 braved negative-degree wind chills to watch the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Miami Dolphins. Twenty-six states remain under wind chill alerts on Sunday. With […]

Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A group of doctors in Philadelphia is offering free measles vaccines on the heels of an outbreak in the city. There have been eight confirmed cases of the disease since late December, all among unvaccinated people, according to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. The first case occurred among a […]

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 your mood with food, but it has to be the right food. Diet decisions that improve the rest of the body […]

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 singer Jason DeFord, known to fans as Jelly Roll, urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass anti-fentanyl legislation and invoked his own past with substance abuse in an effort […]

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 going home after a life-changing experience that resulted in both of her legs being amputated, and both of her hands scheduled […]

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 virus, newly updated federal data shows. As of Friday, “high” or “very high” levels of respiratory illness activity — defined as people […]

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, Iowa, could fall to a bone-chilling minus 20 degrees on Sunday, tying its all-time record low temperature. The temperature in Dallas […]

Heidi Gutman/ABC (NEW YORK) — For the past two months, Michael Strahan’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella has faced a private health battle, fighting medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor. Isabella Strahan was a freshman at the University of Southern California when an MRI scan in October led to her diagnosis of medulloblastoma, a cancerous and fast-growing […]