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Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 call centers and testing sites are closing across the United States as more Americans look to move on from the pandemic and with the emergency declaration set to end in May. In Rockland County, New York — just north of New York City — the call center closed […]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Increased time spent on social media is a risk factor for disordered eating, research shows. Andrea Vazzana, a child psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders in children, adolescents and adults at NYU Langone, said the negative influence of social media is largely owed to the amount of […]

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (NEW YORK) — An emergency room doctor is opening up about “one of the most interesting cases” she’s seen in her career so far and, in the process, warning people about wire grill brush injuries. Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in […]

Richard T. Nowitz/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill banning puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for people under 18 in the state who are seeking gender-affirming health care. The state joins six other states — Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, South Dakota and Utah — with laws or policies that […]

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An imminent ruling from a Texas federal judge could soon block the use of a common abortion medication across the United States, leaving one drug available. More than half of all abortions in the United States use a combination of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, according to the […]

Tacoma Police Department/FaceBook (TACOMA, Wash.) — Health officials in Washington state said they are set to arrest a woman Friday after they said she has been avoiding treatment or isolation for tuberculosis for over a year. The Tacoma-Pierce Health Department said the unidentified woman hasn’t complied with several court orders filed since January 2022. Judge […]

Alissa Eckert/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Friday about an increase in an antibiotic-resistant strain of the Shigella bacteria. Shigella is highly infectious and causes around 450,000 infections in the U.S. every year, according to the CDC. Shigella is transmitted in several ways, including changing […]

Courtesy of Delayne Ivanowski (ST. LOUIS) — For over nine months, Delayne Ivanowski of Kirkwood, Missouri, kept a secret from her dad that ended up saving his life. Delayne Ivanowski, a 25-year-old nurse at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, donated her kidney to her dad John Ivanowski, who told his daughter for months that he […]

Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic “most likely” was the result of a laboratory leak in China, resulted in a firestorm of debate across the internet. First reported by The Wall Street Journal and not […]

Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong is ending its mask mandate Wednesday, becoming one of the world’s last cities to drop rules demanding face coverings. In a press conference Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee said residents and tourists will not be required to wear masks indoors, outdoors or on public transportation for […]