After more than 30 years of decline, abortions rose 8 percent in the U.S. from 2017-2020, according to a June 15 report from the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health policy and and research organization.
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The World Health Organization will convene next week to decide whether the monkeypox outbreak constitutes an international public health emergency, the agency's director general said during a June 14 press briefing.
BA.4 and BA.5 — "sister variants" of the original omicron strain — are gaining prevalence in the U.S. and now account for about 1 in 5 confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide, CDC data shows.
The World Health Organization is considering renaming monkeypox to reduce stigma and racism surrounding the virus, Bloomberg reported June 13.
The American Medical Association adopted a policy June 13 declaring climate change a public health crisis threatening the well-being of all people.
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COVID-19 reinfections have seemingly become common since omicron and its sublineages took hold, The New York Times reported June 11.
COVID-19 deaths will likely increase nationwide through the end of the month, CDC modeling suggests.
The CDC is encouraging clinicians to look out for a broad range of symptoms that might be signs of a monkeypox infection as the national case tally grows, Politico reported June 10.
The nation's seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases increased this week after falling slightly last week for the first time since late March, according to the CDC's COVID-19 data tracker weekly review published June 10.
The Biden administration will no longer require international travelers to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test before boarding flights to the U.S. — a rule that had been in place since January 2021, The Washington Post reported June 10.