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Changes to federal hepatitis B vaccination recommendations could lead to more childhood infections and leave up to 1.8 million young adults vulnerable to the virus, a new study finds.It comes as health experts raise concerns about the potential long-term impact of changing childhood vaccination recommendations.In late 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) removed the universal hepatitis B vaccination recommendation for newborns. That decision, as well as other vaccine changes […]

Nigeria is confirming its first Ebola case as an outbreak continues to spread in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).According to Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the patient is a woman who arrived on an international flight from Uganda. She was admitted to a private hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, where the capital city of Abuja is located.The woman received care for several days […]

Open enrollment for Medicare, the nationwide federal health insurance program primarily for those aged 65 and older, has started.Many enrollees in privately run Medicare Advantage plans may need to find new plans as insurers scale back their offerings.Additionally, costs may increase for prescription drugs after the Trump administration ended a temporary subsidy program.Here's what you need to know about some of the biggest changes coming this year before open enrollment […]

More than 4,400 measles cases have been reported in the U.S., according to an update on Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).A total of 4,410 cases have been confirmed, with most reported by 45 states and Washington, D.C. Eighteen of this year's total have been among international visitors to the U.S., according to the CDC.At least 1,200 of those cases have been reported in Pennsylvania alone […]

North Carolina health officials are warning that West Nile virus is spreading after two deaths were linked to the disease.The two deaths were adults from central North Carolina, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.Currently, 2026 is on pace to be the second-highest year on record for West Nile virus cases, after 2024, according to local ABC News affiliate WTVD.Transmission levels are higher because of warm weather […]

After years of fertility treatments to become pregnant with her first two children, 30-year-old Ashlee Amborn was shocked to learn she was pregnant with her third child just four months after her second was born. The solution, she said: a GLP-1. Amborn had struggled for years with several conditions that made it difficult to become pregnant, including polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) (formerly known as polycystic ovarian syndrome), a single functioning […]

As measles continues to spread across the U.S., local health officials say it may be spurring some to get themselves or their children vaccinated.More than 4,000 cases have been confirmed in the U.S. as well as six deaths -- with the most recent fatality confirmed by Pennsylvania health officials on Monday. It's the most cases and deaths reported in the country in more than three decades.Doctors and public health department […]

Miniature organs being sent into space for the very first time may soon help scientists understand how spaceflight impacts certain organs and may accelerate aging.In a joint effort by researchers from Mount Sinai, NASA and aerospace company Space Tango, these mini organs will be exposed to the increased radiation and microgravity astronauts face in space, especially on long-duration missions."If people are going to be living and working in space, then we need to understand what's going to happen […]