Health

Courtesy Sabiha Aoudia (CHICAGO) — A 5-year-old in Chicago has overcome the odds to celebrate her fifth birthday. Now, her family is raising money for her to receive a life-changing surgery. When Alice Cloe was born on Nov. 22, 2017, she was unable to breathe on her own and later, doctors diagnosed her with a […]

Stevica Mrdja / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Adele revealed she is suffering from a type of nerve pain while performing at her Las Vegas residency. In a video shared online, the 34-year-old singer is seen walking across the stage during a recent date of her Weekends with Adele residency at The Colosseum at Caesars […]

Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States Postal Service can deliver prescribed abortion medication, even in states where abortion access is severely restricted, the Department of Justice announced. The department’s Office of the Legal Counsel wrote in an opinion that pills being sent through the mail is not in violation of […]

Elisa Wells/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, many pregnant people living in states where abortion is now illegal are expected to turn to medication abortion, also known as the abortion pill. For now, it is still legal in most states to […]

CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the past six years, the Mediterranean diet has won the title of best overall diet in U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of best diets. The diet is endorsed by the American Heart Association for its cardiovascular benefits. The diet was shown to reduce the […]

Sorapop Udomsri / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you have been in a gym recently and spotted a person walking steadily on the treadmill at a very high incline, they could be following a viral workout trend. The “12-3-30” workout, the brainchild of social media influencer Lauren Giraldo, involves walking on a treadmill for […]

Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — You may already be into Dry January, or you may be deciding to start now. Either way, the challenges of giving up alcohol for the entire month are real. Annie Grace, the author of The Alcohol Experiment, knows firsthand. In her mid-30s she was a high-level executive […]

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px (NEW YORK) — The sudden collapse of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin during Monday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals left millions of Americans in shock and anxiously waiting for news of his condition. “Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the Bengals,” the Bills […]

Kmatta/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — In the aftermath of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s shocking collapse and cardiac arrest during Monday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, expert medical organizations highlighted the importance of bystanders learning to perform lifesaving CPR. “All of us need to learn CPR. People don’t realize that if someone is unconscious […]

Jorge Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The collapse of Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin during Monday night’s NFL game between the Bills and Cincinnati Bengals with millions watching at home is bringing cardiac arrest, even among young professional athletes, into a larger focus. Hamlin, 24, “suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit” in the […]