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ABC News (MAUI, Hawaii) — For the thousands of people who survived the Maui fires last August, the trauma of what they lived through still lingers. Lahaina painter Kirk Boes and his wife Laura have lived on Lahaina together for more than 40 years. They evacuated on August 8, only to return three days later. […]

ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — On Sept. 10, 2022, Michael and Jill Katz received a devastating phone call that their 21-year-old daughter Sarah had collapsed while out to dinner with friends. They raced from their New Jersey home to Philadelphia, where Sarah was attending college. Sarah Katz had suffered cardiac arrest and was then transported to […]
Courtesy of Brooke Nelson (NEW YORK) — Brooke Nelson said she was over 200 pounds and struggling to lose weight when she decided to take part in a clinical trial of a new, minimally-invasive weight loss procedure. Within six months of the procedure, Nelson said she had lost over 20 pounds and changed how she […]
KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The City Council in Long Beach, California, voted Tuesday to ratify a local public health emergency order after an outbreak of tuberculosis sickened several people. The outbreak is linked to a single-room occupancy hotel, a form of affordable housing meant for low- or minimal income residents, according […]
Michelle Arnold / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — From vegetables and legumes to fish and fresh herbs, Mediterranean ingredients provide a wide array of health benefits, and the Mediterranean diet is consistently ranked the top overall diet. Now, researchers have found new health associations between consuming more than 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil a day […]
The Jarvik 2015 15mm VAD, a miniature heart assist device, is shown. (Jarvik Heart, Inc.) (NEW YORK) — New promising data finds that a small heart pump device the size of a AA battery could help keep children in need of a heart transplant alive and at home as they wait for a new heart. […]
Courtesy American Cancer Society (NEW YORK) — Jacque Berry and her daughter, Breanna Berry, are Black women who say they have been surrounded by cancer all their lives. “My great-grandmother had breast cancer,” Breanna Berry, 30, told ABC News’ Good Morning America. “I remember when I was like 10 and she’d say, ‘Sweetie, go get […]
ABC News’ Becky Worley undergoes testing at the University of California Davis Medical Center for the All of Us Research Program. — ABC News (DAVIS, Calif.) — Becky Worley is an ABC News correspondent based in California. Here, she documents her experience as a participant in the All of Us Research Program, a National Institutes […]
Participant holds a protest sign at a rally as immigration advocates and allies gathered at Battery Park, New York City, on Oct. 26, 2019. — Erik Mcgregor/LightRocket via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has finalized plans to expand government-subsidized health insurance for people brought to the country illegally as children but shielded […]
Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (PHOENIX, Az.) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday signed repeal legislation of a long dormant, near-total abortion ban that was recently revived by the state Supreme Court, stirring widespread controversy and debate. Hobbs’ signature will reverse the pending reactivation of the restrictive abortion law that […]