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Former NICU neighbors overcome rare heart disease to become college roommates

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two neonatal intensive care unit patients who were once given a…

1 year ago

Excessive drinking during the pandemic increased rates of liver disease, transplants

Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Transplant centers across the United States are reporting more patients in need of…

1 year ago

Innovations in Alzheimer’s treatment risk leaving Hispanic community behind, experts say

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Evelin Miranda first noticed something was off with her husband, Eddie, about 10…

1 year ago

First on ABC: 4M Americans have gotten latest COVID shot — on par with last fall’s vaccine rollout

Luis Alvarez/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 4 million Americans have been vaccinated with the newest COVID shot as of…

1 year ago

Child drug poisonings and firearm deaths have skyrocketed in America: Study

PBNJ Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Firearm deaths and drug poisoning deaths in children have spiked in the last decade, according…

1 year ago

After weeks of increasing COVID hospitalizations, is the summer peak over?

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After weeks of increasing COVID hospitalizations in the United States, the number of patients seems to…

1 year ago

More than 75,000 health care workers begin strike at Kaiser Permanente

pablohart/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente launched a strike Wednesday, with a coalition of unions…

1 year ago

What to know about the looming health care workers strike at Kaiser Permanente

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers across the country are planning to strike Wednesday morning…

1 year ago

Teen athlete has hands, legs amputated after rare complication from the flu

Edgar Uribe(NEW YORK) -- Mathias Uribe was a healthy 14-year-old kid looking forward to his freshman year of high school,…

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Pennsylvania woman dies of West Nile virus, 1st case in Pittsburgh area this year

Joao Paulo Burini/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A Pennsylvania woman in her 80s has died after contracting West Nile virus, health…

1 year ago