Health

xijian/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Things at Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin have not slowed down since July 2022. The center, which runs the 988 crisis hotline for the state, worked hard to expand its mental health services following the hotline’s national relaunch. Like many centers across the country, it has experienced surging demand that […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two neonatal intensive care unit patients who were once given a 40% chance of survival are now thriving years later. Tate Lewis and Seth Rippentrop were born weeks apart in 2002. They were diagnosed in utero with hypoplastic heart syndrome, a congenital condition where the […]

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 patients needing transplants compared to pre-pandemic levels. In fact, alcohol-related liver disease has surpassed other conditions such as hepatitis C and fatty […]

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. Then, her son Miguel told her Eddie hadn’t been paying bills on time. “Things just weren’t getting better,” she told ABC News. “I […]

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 address the problem. Drought, subsidence, rising seas and manmade changes to the river have led to historically low […]

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 equal to that of the COVID vaccine rolled out in October of last year. While vaccination rates remaining on par with last year’s […]

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 increase in firearm deaths by 87% and drug poisoning deaths by 133%. Researchers looked at data from the Centers of Disease Control […]

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 piano, according to his parents Edgar and Catalina Uribe. That all changed in late June, when Mathias developed flu-like symptoms, including […]

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 practices. Employees in Virginia and Washington, D.C., walked off the job at 6 a.m. ET while those in California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon began […]

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 summer peak might be over. Weekly hospitalizations decreased 3.1% from 19,691 to 19,079 for the week ending Sept. 23, according to data from the Centers for Disease […]