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Children starve equally Yemen teeters on a return to fighting

Starvation has threatened Yemen'southward children for years.

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Women hold their malnourished children at the Hays Rural Hospital in Hodeida, Yemen, Oct. 11, 2022. For years starvation has been an everyday threat for Yemen's children. Now, as the war threatens to escalate between the country's warring parties after months of a tenuous truce, there are fears that it could get worse. (AP Photo/Hussam Al-Bakry)

Ballgame access looms over medical residency applications

Students in obstetrics-gynecology and family unit medicine are facing tough choices nigh where to advance their grooming in a landscape where legal access to abortion varies from country to state

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Dr. Connor McNamee, a third-year family medicine resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center, poses at the medical center, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Toledo, Ohio. Students in obstetrics-gynecology and family medicine are facing tough choices about where to advance their training in a landscape where legal access to abortion varies from state to state. McNamee began exploring abortion training outside Ohio last summer. A state law bans most abortions after cardiac activity is detected, but a judge has blocked it while a challenge proceeds. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski)

Missouri schoolhouse to shut later nuclear waste report

A Missouri school board has decided to shut downwardly a course schoolhouse that sits near a contaminated creek after a study funded past law firms involved in a class-action lawsuit found high levels of radioactive material inside the school

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A school bus arrives at Jana Elementary School on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022 in Florissant, Mo. Radioactive samples were found at the Hazelwood School District school, according to a recently released report. Nearby Coldwater Creek, which flooded in August, was contaminated by waste from nuclear bombs manufactured during World War II. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

CDC report finds racial disparities in flu hospitalizations and vaccine uptake

Blackness, Hispanic and Native adults are more probable to be hospitalized by flu and less likely to be vaccinated confronting flu.

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Black, Hispanic and Native adults are more likely to be hospitalized by flu and less likely to be vaccinated against flu.

Auditor: Systemic failures harm CA domestic violence program

State auditors say near half of California domestic violence offenders failed to complete a required program designed to preclude future assaults and judges failed to impose new sanctions virtually every time

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As Russia strikes power plants, Ukrainians brace for winter

As temperatures drib below freezing in eastern Ukraine, those who haven't already fled from the heavy fighting and months of Russian occupation are now facing a brutal winter

October 18

Anton Sevrukov, 47, toasts bread over fire in a makeshift stove in Kivsharivka, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. As temperatures drop below freezing in eastern Ukraine, those who haven't fled from the heavy fighting, regular shelling and months of Russian occupation are now on the threshold of a brutal winter and digging in for the cold months. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Biden assistants seeks to expand 24/7 mental health care

The federal government wants to expand all-hours mental health and substance abuse intendance in communities around the land

October 18

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference announcing investments in the nation's behavioral health infrastructure, at the HHS Humphrey Building, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

S Carolina Senate again rejects ballgame ban; bill not expressionless

South Carolina senators have again rejected a proposal to ban nearly all abortions in the country

October 18

Republican South Carolina Sen. Tom Corbin, left, Katrina Shealy, center, and Shane Massey speak before a special session on abortion on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Inspect hits N. Dakota on vaccine handling; agency disputes it

A state audit says the Due north Dakota Health Department stored thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses at wrong temperatures or without temperature data over the by two years — and that some of the vaccine was administered to patients

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FILE - North Dakota National Guard members administer COVID-19 tests on Nov. 17, 2020, inside the Bismarck Events Center in Bismarck, N.D. The North Dakota Health Department stored thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses at incorrect temperatures or without temperature data over the past two years, according to a state audit Tuesday, Oct, 18, 2022, that said some of the vaccine was administered to patients. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Biden vows abortion legislation equally top priority adjacent year

President Joe Biden is promising that the first neb he sends to Capitol Colina next yr will be 1 that codifies Roe five. Wade — if Democrats control plenty seats in Congress for Biden to sign ballgame protections into law

October 18

President Joe Biden speaks about the student debt relief portal beta test in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

3 in 10 uninsured Americans with diabetes may ration insulin: Study

"Universal access to insulin, without price barriers, is urgently needed."

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A woman appears to take insulin in this undated stock photo.

Should you be worried should about the new COVID subvariants?

Offshoots of the BA.iv and BA.v omicron subvariants are increasing in the U.S.

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Josefa Martínez, 87 years old, receives the fourth dose of Covid-19 and flu vaccine in the garden of the nursing home in Feixa Llarga on Sept. 26, 2022 in Barcelona.

Black, Hispanic adults more probable to exist hospitalized with flu than white adults: CDC

Hospitalizations were fourscore% higher among Black adults compared to white adults.

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A sign announces free flu vaccines outside a CVS pharmacy, Jan. 14, 2022, in Monterey Park, Calif.

Black women are 41% more likely to die from cancer than white women

In that location is often a disparity in care between Blackness women and white women, co-ordinate to the American Cancer Eye.

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VIDEO: Black women are 41% more likely to die from cancer than white women

Biden prioritizing abortion legislation ahead of midterms

President Joe Biden will hope Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Congress next yr will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade if Democrats control enough seats after midterms

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United nations written report finds refuse in women's and children's health due to pandemic

Rates of anxiety and depression rose while rates of vaccination declined.

October 18

United nations written report reveals why women'southward and children's health is more at risk

Rates of anxiety and depression rose while rates of vaccination declined.

Oct 18

Karina Joseph, 19, comforts her 2-year-old child Holanda Sineus as she receives treatment for cholera in a tent at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Cite Soleil, a densely populated commune of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Octt. 15, 2022.

Get shot 'as soon as you're eligible': Dr. Alok Patel on demand for COVID fall booster

ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with Dr. Alok Patel about a possible COVID and flu surge this winter, and what's concerning health officials virtually Americans who have non received an updated booster.

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VIDEO: Get your shot 'as soon as you're eligible': Dr. Alok Patel on need for COVID fall booster

NC clinics want nurses to offer medication-induced abortions

Abortion providers and an ballgame-rights group desire some judges to permit more than trained health professionals in North Carolina to prescribe pills for medication-induced abortions

Oct 17

Landmark trial begins over Arkansas' ban on trans youth care

The nation's first trial over a country's ban on gender-confirming care for children has begun in Arkansas

October 17

FILE - Dylan Brandt speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., July 21, 2021. Brandt, a teenager, is among several transgender youth and families who are plaintiffs challenging a state law banning gender confirming care for trans minors. The nation's first trial over a state's ban on gender-confirming care for children begins in Arkansas on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, the latest fight over restrictions on transgender youth championed by Republican leaders and widely condemned by medical experts. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo, File)

Congress probes Jackson water crisis as city and state spar

Congress is investigating the crunch that left 150,000 people in Mississippi's majuscule city without running water for several days in tardily summer

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Clouds are reflected off the City of Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility's sedimentation basins in Ridgeland, Miss., Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Jackson's water system partially failed following flooding and heavy rainfall that exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Over-the-counter hearing aids now available in US

ABC News medical Contributor Dr. Alok Patel explains why over-the-counter hearing aids will positively impact the roughly 38 million Americans who endure from some sort of hearing loss.

October 17

VIDEO: Over-the-counter hearing aids now available in US

Congress probes Jackson water crunch as city and land spar

Congress is investigating the crisis that left 150,000 people in Mississippi's upper-case letter city without running h2o for several days in tardily summertime

October 17

Cigna received millions of Medicare dollars based on invalid diagnoses: Lawsuit

The lawsuit claims Cigna fabricated recipients seem sicker than they actually were.

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Signage for Cigna is pictured at a health facility in Queens, New York City, Nov. 30, 2021.

Monkeypox cases in US fall, hit everyman level since June: CDC

The average is down from a pinnacle of 443 in August, data shows.

October 17

A patient is inoculated with the monkeypox vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the OASIS Wellness Center, Aug. 19, 2022, in New York.

Americans can now buy hearing aids over the counter

ABC News Medical Contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses this change and how it will impact millions of Americans.

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VIDEO: Americans can now buy hearing aids over the counter

FDA pushes to remove pregnancy drug, company pushes back

The maker of a drug intended to reduce premature births is making a final-ditch attempt to proceed its medication on the market, even as health regulators insist that it doesn't piece of work

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Pakistani alluvion victims in worst-hit province return home

Pakistani officials say that more than one-half of the flood victims in the country's worst-hit Sindh province have returned to their homes over the past iii weeks as the water gradually receded

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Villagers with their belongings cross a flooded area on a boat, in Dadu, a district of southern Sindh province, Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2022. The devastation wreaked by floods in Pakistan this summer has intensified the debate over a question of climate justice: Do rich countries whose emissions are the main cause of climate change owe compensation to poor countries hit by climate change-fueled disasters? (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

As more states impose abortion restrictions, providers have workarounds

Workarounds ensure doctors aren't breaking laws, experts and advocates say.

October 17

Abortion rights advocates chant outside of the West Virginia Senate chambers prior to a vote on an abortion bill, July 29, 2022, in Charleston, W.Va.

Over-the-counter hearing aids bachelor in Usa for 1st time

Nearly 30 million Americans endure from some degree of hearing loss.

October 17

In this Oct. 20, 2021 file photo a patient holds her hearing aid as she visits Hear Again America for a checkup on in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Significant women struggle to find care afterwards Pakistan's floods

Pregnant women are struggling to get care after Pakistan's unprecedented flooding this summer that inundated a third of the country at its height and collection millions from their homes

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Shakeela Bibi who is pregnant stands beside her tent at a relief camp for flood victims, in Fazilpur near Multan, Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2022. Pregnant women are struggling to get care after Pakistan's unprecedented flooding, which inundated a third of the country at its height and drove millions from their homes. The UN says around 130,000 pregnant women in flood-hit areas require urgent healthcare and more than 2,000 are giving birth every day, most in unsafe conditions. (AP Photo/Shazia Bhatti)

Gates Foundation pledges $1.2B to eradicate polio globally

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $ane.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide

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FILE - A person walks by the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on April 27, 2018, in Seattle. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, that it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Aid worker killed in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

The International Rescue Commission says i of its workers was killed in an assault in Ethiopia'southward embattled Tigray region

October 15

Uganda locks down 2 districts in bid to stem spread of Ebola

Ugandan authorities take imposed a travel lockdown on 2 Ebola-hit districts equally part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious affliction

October 15

Caput of Africa CDC alleges mistreatment at German airport

The acting director of the Africa Centers for Affliction Control and Prevention says he was "mistreated" upon his arrival at Deutschland'south Frankfurt Airport

October 15

Biden'due south pot pardons could heave states' legalization drives

President Joe Biden's decision to pardon thousands of people bedevilled of elementary possession of marijuana under federal police could give a heave to Election Mean solar day ballot proposals in five states that would legalize the drug

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Eddie Armstrong, chairman of the Responsible Growth Arkansas campaign, speaks at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. The campaign is backing a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana. Arkansas is one of five states with recreational marijuana proposals on the ballot in November. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo )

Biden pushing lower prescription drug costs in midterm press

President Joe Biden is highlighting his assistants'due south efforts to lower prescription drug costs on Fri as part of his three-state Western bout this week, as he confronts a sobering inflation report in the waning weeks before midterm elections

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President Joe Biden speaks about infrastructure investments at the LA Metro, D Line (Purple) Extension Transit Project - Section 3, in Los Angeles, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Visitor at middle of babe formula crisis issues new recollect

The company says this latest call up won't touch on overall U.S. supply.

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Similac 360 Total Care is one of the brands of infant formula included in a recall. Less than 1% of recalled bottles have caps that may not have sealed.

WHO warns of winter health crises in Ukraine

With winter approaching and the ongoing war, Ukraine could be facing a difficult time ahead.

October 14

Residents wait to receive humanitarian food given by the Ukrainian army in Balaklia, Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2022.

California to vote on constitutional right to ballgame

Californians are voting now through Election Day on a ramble amendment guaranteeing the correct to ballgame and contraception

October 14

Phillip Mendoza joined other anti-abortion supporters at the California March for Life rally held at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, June 22, 2022. On Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, California voters will be asked to add the right to an abortion to the California Constitution. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Approximate gauges if Indiana abortion ban defies religious rights

A top Indiana lawyer has questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by a group of residents who argue that the state'due south ballgame ban violates their religious freedoms

October 14

Ken Falk, ACLU of Indiana legal director, speaks with reporters Oct. 14, 2022, in Indianapolis after arguing before a Marion County judge over claims the state's abortion ban violates plaintiff's religious freedoms. (AP Photo/Arleigh Rodgers)

Fighting food poisoning: Sweeping poultry changes proposed

The U.S. Section of Agriculture is proposing sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed in an effort to reduce salmonella illnesses from food contamination

October 14

FILE - This Wednesday, April 11, 2012 file photo shows turkeys at a farm in Lebanon, Pa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022 proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Expired drug kills 10 child leukemia patients in Republic of yemen

Yemeni health officials say expired doses of cancer treatment have killed at to the lowest degree x child leukemia patients in the insubordinate-held capital

October 14

Virginia AG punts investigation of child abuse allegations

The role of Virginia's attorney full general has handed off jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital that serves vulnerable children

Oct 14

This aerial image taken with a drone shows Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents on Tuesday Sept. 20, 2022, in Richmond, Va. The office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares handed off its jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia AG punts investigation of child abuse allegations

The office of Virginia's chaser full general has handed off jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital that serves vulnerable children

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German health government minister urges stepped-up COVID-xix measures

Germany'southward health minister is urging the land's 16 states to consider stepping up measures against the coronavirus amid a ascent in new cases

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Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach attends a press conference on the current COVID-19 situation and the Ministry of Health's new campaign to protect against the virus, in Berlin, Germany, Friday Oct. 14, 2022. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Eu regulator recommends clearing Takeda's dengue vaccine

The European Medicines Agency is recommending that a dengue vaccine made by the Japanese pharmaceutical Takeda exist authorized, in a move that could provide a new tool for millions worldwide against the potentially fatal disease

Oct 14

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus and the Dengue fever, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. In a statement on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, the European Medicines Agency is recommending that a dengue vaccine made by the Japanese pharmaceutical Takeda be authorized, in a move that could provide a new tool for millions worldwide against the potentially fatal disease. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Monk, chaser charged with $3.5M pandemic relief fraud

Federal prosecutors say a homo who presents himself as an Orthodox Christian monk and an attorney fraudulently obtained $iii.5 meg in federal pandemic relief funds for nonprofit religious organizations and related businesses they controlled

October 13

Did COVID-19 pandemic contribute to Adderall shortage?

Patients across the state are reporting shortages of the medication.

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