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House Democrats have unveiled a $28 million emergency spending bill to address the shortage of infant formula in the United States

The new infections bring the nationwide total of monkeypox cases to 7.

Dr. Reed Tuckson, founder of the Black Coalition Against COVID, on how the pandemic has disproportionately impacted Black Americans.

Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year

U.S. regulators have authorized a COVID-19 vaccine booster for healthy children ages 5 to 11

In April, Pfizer asked the FDA to authorize its boosters for younger children.

The head of the World Health Organization says China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it’s up to every country to decide what policy to pursue

Nearly 43,000 people died in traffic crashes last year, a 10.5% jump from 2020 as traffic increased, federal data shows

US authorizes COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11. Next step: CDC recommendation later this week.

Administrators at an elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school

Indonesia is lifting its outdoor mask mandate as its COVID-19 outbreak wanes

The Spanish government has approved a draft bill that widens abortion rights for teenagers and may make Spain the first country in Europe entitling workers to paid menstrual leave

The government website for requesting free COVID-19 at-home tests from the U.S. government is accepting a third round of orders

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin during his decade in power and shunned international help for his people

Poor ventilation may make schools a persistent COVID hot spot.

North Korea has reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits as an outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population

President Joe Biden's administration has announced new steps to ease the national shortage of baby formula, including allowing more imports from overseas

Two patients have been discharged and one remains in stable condition.

Homelessness increased nearly 9% in the San Francisco Bay Area over the last three years, despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to keep people off the streets during the coronavirus pandemic

Baby formula maker Abbott says it has reached deal with regulators to restart production at factory tied to shortage

The national average indicates that about 50% of deaths were preventable.

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses how science gave the world its best weapon against COVID.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with Ukrainian refugees and urged the need to confront Russian brutality as she visited Poland ahead of a meeting of finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies

When the U.S. hit 1 million COVID-19 deaths, the news was driven by a government tally derived from death certificates

The new chief health equity officer at CVS Health hopes she will have more influence in fixing care disparities before they land patients in the hospital

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has blasted officials over slow medicine deliveries and ordered his military to respond to the largely undiagnosed COVID-19 crisis that has left 1.2 million people ill with fever and 50 dead in a matter of days

CDC says US death toll from COVID-19 hits 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak

Authorities say most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus.

The U.S. surpassed 1 million COVID-19 deaths last week.

North Korea says it has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers amid the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak

Shanghai officials say they will allow some businesses to reopen Monday, even while it remains unclear whether residents will be able to leave their homes

Excess mortality estimates are markedly higher than the official toll.

FEMA launched a program last year to cover up to $9,000 in costs per victim.

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants

North Korea has reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population

ABC News’ Kayna Whitworth speaks with ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel about the ongoing shortage of baby formula and ways parents can ensure their babies are fed and remain healthy.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has tested positive for COVID-19 but said she still plans to travel to the U.S. later this month for a trade trip and to give the commencement speech at Harvard University

North Korea reports 21 new deaths as it battles COVID-19 outbreak

The Louisiana Supreme Court has thrown out charges against a pastor who flouted coronavirus pandemic restrictions on gatherings

A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient has been sentenced to three years of probation

Idaho officials have announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis

The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse

Dr. David Putrino from Mount Sinai Health System and COVID long-hauler Joel Fram discuss the long-term effects of the disease.

As the U.S. marks 1 million American lives lost, the son of a COVID victim speaks out.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus will soon surpass 1 million

Put your son in Sherman Peebles' barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherly warning about staying out of trouble. Now, seven months after the dapper sergeant died of COVID-19, life goes on at the Columbus, Georgia, shop owned by his best friend. But the aching emptiness of Peebles' absence lingers. The brotherly affection he brought to each day, gone missing. The jokes and stories that go untold. The pandemic has claimed nearly 1 million lives in the U.S., leaving empty spaces in homes and neighborhoods across the country, whether we are aware of them or not. In portraits of these places left behind, emptiness claims a chair at a nurses station in a busy Alabama hospital, long occupied by a caregiver co-workers recall as “like everybody’s mama.” It fills the Arizona bedroom of a 13-year-old lost to COVID, his action figures lined up just as he left them, on the dresser. It floats,...

ABC News spoke with OB-GYNs about common myths surrounding abortion.

Many parents are hunting for infant formula after a combination of short- and long-term problems hit the biggest U.S. brands

North Korea says six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread explosively across the country

Some patients may have to pay more than $1,000 to get an abortion.