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China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-COVID controls and authorities say new variants are weaker

China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-COVID controls and authorities say new variants are weaker

New Zealand is launching a wide-ranging inquiry into whether it made the right decisions in battling COVID-19 and how it can better prepare for future pandemics

Dextromethorphan, found in cough syrup, had the highest number of cases.

China has reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions following increasingly vocal public frustrations

China has reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions following increasingly vocal public frustrations

China has reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions

New York’s state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s T

A prosecutor says the former medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children has been charged with four felony sex crimes in connection with abuse at the facility years ago

Indiana's Republican attorney general can continue his investigation of an Indianapolis doctor who spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on evolving medical treatments and combating stigmas. Tina Knowles Lawson remembers her nephew, known as "Uncle Johnny" to daughters Beyoncé and Solange.

Mpox cases have plummeted in recent weeks.

Sanfilippo syndrome, a condition classified as childhood dementia, affects an estimated 1 in every 70,000 births and parents tell ABC News' Faith Abubey they're not giving up on finding a cure.

The U.S. flu season keeps getting worse

The United States' 988 call service for helping anyone experiencing a mental health emergency is back up and running after a daylong outage

Average COVID-19 cases have reached their highest levels since August.

Nearly all states last year at this time were reporting low or moderate levels.

Average COVID-19 cases have reached their highest levels since August.

About 150 Tibetan exiles holding blank pieces of paper have rallied in India’s capital to express solidarity with people in China protesting its “zero COVID” policy

A top official at the World Health Organization said the U_N_ agency was “pleased” to see China loosening some of its coronavirus restrictions, saying “it’s really important that governments listen to their people when the people are in pain.”

A former co-owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy at the center of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak that resulted in more than 100 patient deaths has been sentenced to a year in prison for conspiring to defraud the federal government

China's professional basketball league has fined former NBA star Jeremy Lin for making “inappropriate remarks” about quarantine facilities for his Chinese team

Ten Los Angeles students appear to have overdosed on edible cannabis products at their middle school in the San Fernando Valley

The three viruses have many symptoms that are similar.

Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of AVAC, talks HIV prevention, access to medicine, treatment and ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Intensive care doctors in Germany are warning that hospital pediatric units in the country are stretched to breaking point in part due to rising cases of respiratory infections among infants

Testing increased in late 2020, but not up to pre-pandemic levels.

A group of prosecutors is asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 173-year-old ban on abortions

The news came on the eve of World AIDS Day.

Civil rights advocates say a Memphis hospital is no longer providing gender-affirming surgeries

According to HIV.Gov, approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV but the CDC says PrEP drugs can reduce the risk of infection by 99% when taken daily.

The number of tests increased in late 2020, but not to pre-pandemic levels.

: This new directive comes after several instances of violence in the last year, but it's sparking backlash and debate about how to tackle issues of homelessness and mental health.

The change would allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood.

With the threat of a "tripledemic" in the U.S., how can you tell the difference between COVID-19, the flu and RSV?

Africa’s top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea

More Chinese cities are easing anti-virus restrictions and police are patrolling their streets as the government tries to defuse public anger over some of the world’s most stringent COVID measures

A campaign to vaccinate older Chinese has sparked hopes Beijing might roll back severe anti-virus controls that prompted angry protesters to demand President Xi Jinping resign

The data showcases the lack of boosters received by the older population.

The U.S. Justice Department has received a federal judge’s approval to carry out its proposal to improve the precarious water system in Mississippi’s capital city

An Oklahoma man is preparing to try to gather over 173,000 signatures and millions of dollars in fundraising to put abortion access up for public vote in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws

U.S. officials approved the first pharmaceutical-grade version of the fecal transplant procedures that doctors have increasingly used to treat a potentially life-threatening intestinal infection

It comes after a single case of polio was detected in New York in July.

Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated

Older adults have never made up such a high share of deaths, data shows.

Philadelphia and Oakland County, Michigan, are joining the small list of U.S. localities that are looking for signs of polio infections in sewage

New data shows an experimental Alzheimer's drug modestly slowed the brain disease's inevitable worsening

The head of the International Monetary Fund says it’s time for China to move away from mass lockdowns under its “zero-COVID” approach

Indiana attorney general asks medical board to penalize doctor who spoke about abortion for 10-year-old Ohio rape victim

China's ruling Communist Party has vowed to “resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces."