Health

The Houston Chronicle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Faced with an ongoing labor shortage, some 911 centers are rethinking how to hire and retain workers. From increasing base pay to fostering a culture that elevates dispatching as a unique profession, industry leaders told ABC News that they hope the changes can help rebuild their […]

Andrea Bryant applied for a Give A Mile flight to go see her mother who was in the hospital in Seattle. — Courtesy of Andrea Bryant (NEW YORK) — When Ileen Paden’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and began showing signs of dementia, she knew she couldn’t give him the care he needed at […]

Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a move welcomed by advocates, a treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis could soon become more accessible for millions of people worldwide. Although tuberculosis is uncommon in the U.S., it is the top infectious disease killer worldwide after COVID-19, claiming an estimated 1.6 million lives in 2021, […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Four women and an OB-GYN are expected to testify at hearings on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a lawsuit filed against the state of Texas over its abortion bans. The women are some of the 15 individuals party to the lawsuit who have alleged that their lives were […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths involving both cocaine and opioids have spiked over the last decade, new federal data suggests. A new report published early Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System between 2011 and […]

AlesVeluscek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of people are dealing with extreme heat waves as climate change continues to raise temperatures to unhealthy levels. Jeff Goodell, a climate journalist, published a new book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, that examines how damaging the increased heat waves are […]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Angelica Garcia’s high school crush, first love, and father of her two children died unexpectedly, she said, her life went into a free fall. The Los Angeles native said she struggled to cope; within months, she started using marijuana, then cocaine and methamphetamine. “I didn’t have the tools […]

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As heat waves persist and temperatures across the country continue to soar, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that emergency department visits nationwide have more than doubled in the last month. In the U.S., an estimated 2,891 out of 100,000 overall emergency department visits were […]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill in the United States that can be sold without a prescription Thursday. The progestin-only pill, called Opill, is made by French drugmaker HRA Pharma and its parent company Perrigo and the approval is a first-of-its-kind move by federal […]

pablohart/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Emergency department visits involving cannabis increased for children, teens and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, new federal data suggests. A report published Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at visits for Americans under 25 years old throughout the pandemic and compared the data to a 2019 […]