peterspiro/iStock/ThinkStock(WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.) — Three young women are giving back to their community. According to ABC News affiliate WABC-TV, the women are volunteers at White Plains Hospital in Westchestery County, where they provide comfort to worried parents Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — When medications work they alleviate pain, heal infection, prevent disease or even save lives. But every medication comes with the risk of side effects — and, occasionally, those side effects are debilitating or deadly. Are Read More
Kristen Anne Photography(NEW YORK) — If you ask 100 different parents about their journey to parenthood, there would be 100 different stories to share. In the case of the Olsons of Minnesota, the journey to becoming parents for the third time was not only a Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Women with newborns get advice, of course, from their families, friends and neighbors. But a new study reveals that up to half of mothers don’t get any advice from their doctors on some important topics, including where and how to Read More
Purestock/ThinkstockBy DR. JENNIFER ASHTON, ABC News Senior Medical Contributor Did you know that acupuncture may be able to help stress and anxiety? Research shows that this go-to pain reliever may also be good for keeping you calm and can treat things like PMS, Read More
Ridofranz/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The overwhelming majority of young cancer patients are unaware of the affect that chemotherapy could have on their fertility, a new study finds. Researchers looked at nearly 500 patients from around the U.S. involved in the Read More
Henrik_L/iStock/ThinkStock(TUSTIN, Calif.) — One town in California can’t scratch away this itch. According to ABC News affiliate KABC-TV, a two-block section of Tustin has “higher than normal rates” of mosquitoes infected with the West Nile Virus. Read More
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Following the release of two secretly recorded videos that appear to feature the discussion of the price of fetal tissue involving a Planned Parenthood employee, the organization’s president said on Sunday it has done Read More
VILevi/iStock/Thinkstock(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) — The World Health Organization announced Friday that in the first two weeks of this month, six new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, also known as MERS, were identified in Saudi Arabia. The new Read More
Minerva Studio/iStock/ThinkStock(NEW YORK) — A new treatment has been approved for the most common form of skin cancer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for advanced basal cell carcinoma, a skin cancer that’s easy to treat, if Read More
