Davizro/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A 13-year-old Broadway actress, Laurel Griggs, has died after an apparently fatal asthma attack. Laurel appeared in the Tony award-winning show, Once. The musical shared news of the star's...

ABC News Photo Illustration, Adapted from the LexisNexis StateNet Database and the Immunization Action Coalition, May 2019 (ABC News)(ATLANTA) -- Cobb County, a suburban part of Atlanta, Georgia, confirmed a case of...

baona/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Despite decades of rigorous research, proving time and time again that vaccines are safe, and copious evidence that vaccines work, saving an estimated 732,000 children’s lives and preventing...

yanyong/iStockBy Dr. Angelo Landriscina (NEW YORK) --  People who have trouble sleeping may be at higher risk of heart disease and stroke according to a new study published today in the medical journal Neurology. ...

sestovic/iStock(ATLANTA) -- Officials have identified Vitamin E Acetate as a "strong culprit" in the vaping-related lung injuries that left thousands sick and 39 people dead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

ABCNews.com(HOUSTON) -- A young boy is being hailed a hero after his quick thinking helped save his mother's life. Chelsie Montemayor was unresponsive last Friday due to dangerously low blood sugar and her 5-year-old son...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in American men and women.

HAZEMMKAMAL/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration will announce the details of a possible ban on flavored e-cigarette and vaping products next week, President Donald Trump said Friday. "We're going to be coming...

United MSD Foundation(NEW YORK) -- There is not enough time in the day for Amber Olsen. An average day for this mother means working as a business owner of the staffing company, Nextaff Gulf Coast, taking care of her two...

Jason_Ray_Photography/iStock(MADISON, Wis.) -- Wisconsin state Assembly Republicans passed a slate of laws aimed at suicide prevention Thursday, in response to rising suicide rates in the state. "Every one of us,...

FotoCuisinette/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Artist Rubem Robierb’s sleek white sculpture of massive butterfly wings certainly makes a statement. "In tribute to the strength and bravery of the trans [and gender nonconforming]...

ThitareeSarmkasat/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The category is: Cancer research, for $10,000. November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, and Avi Gupta, a teen Jeopardy! champ who took home $100,000 over the summer, has donated...

Kwangmoozaa/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Move over Sophia and Isabelle -- Adah is coming to a nursery near you. The name is predicted by popular baby naming web site Nameberry to be the "top girl name of 2020." The site bases its...

According to the State of Childhood Obesity, Nebraska has the 15th highest adult obesity rate in the nation, and the 23rd highest obesity rate for youth ages 10 to 17.

(Photo Credit: Edith Camacho, INAH) Mammoth bones found in what is believed to be the first mammoth trap set by humans, in Tultepec, Mexico, in a photo released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology (INAH).(MEXICO...

andresr/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Screen time: It's the home battlefield between parents and kids. But should it be? Some parents are saying 'no,' and refuse to set limits on how much time their kids spend on devices. Franci...

Hailshadow/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Fears of hepatitis A swirled in Somerville, New Jersey, this week, after the health department there reported that a food handler in a local grocery store could have exposed shoppers to the...

RuslanDashinsky/iStock(NEW YORK) -- If every employee walked or jogged for an extra 15 minutes each day, the world could see an economic boost of $100 billion, according to a new report on the economic benefits of a more...

ABC(NEW YORK) -- Tom Saputo was shocked when he received a surprise medical bill for $51,000 for an air ambulance. His insurance covered most of the bill for the helicopter, but his family said they were told they still...

Fathers' UpLift(NEW YORK) -- Oswaldo Ortiz's youngest child, a daughter named Ofirenen, was just a toddler when he had to leave her behind in 2017 to serve a year-long prison sentence for possession of marijuana. "I used...