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Only a month after North Korea acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak was sickening its people, the country may be preparing to declare victory

ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports from Louisiana’s “Chemical Corridor” on the urgency to clean the air as residents there are skeptical of carbon capture technology that could help improve their air.

On average, more than 100,000 people are testing positive in the U.S. every day.

ABC News' Anne Flaherty and medical contributor Dr. John Brownstein have the latest on the new vaccine rollout and what this means for parents.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper says he's tested positive for COVID-19 but is continuing to do work from home while experiencing mild symptoms

Infectious diseases specialist Dr. Simone Wildes discusses Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 shots becoming available for young children and what it means for parents.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had an operation on his sinuses under general anaesthetic

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says that authorities have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a person who returned from abroad and is now isolating at home

U.S. health officials have opened COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots

It's been a long wait for the last remaining age group yet to be vaccinated.

US opens COVID-19 vaccines to little kids; shots begin next week

CDC panel recommends COVID-19 vaccines for youngest kids; final decision expected soon

Doulas and midwives are helping mothers reclaim their child birthing processes.

U.S. regulators have authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers

The trial of a British man charged with the premeditated murder of his ill wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort of Paphos has been pushed back until September and he will remain in custody

The Iowa Supreme Court has made it easier for lawmakers to limit or outlaw abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to abortion under the Iowa Constitution

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen has threatened to retaliate against the Minnesota board that oversees doctors as it investigates him for the fifth time

Angry bank customers were stopped from protesting by a health app.

The U.K.'s outbreak is now the biggest to date beyond Africa.

Iowa Supreme Court: Abortion rights not protected by state constitution, clearing way for lawmakers to ban the procedure

US authorizes first COVID-19 shots for children under 5; CDC review is next

China is defending its tough “zero-COVID” policy.

Germany’s health minister has urged residents to wear face masks indoors to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus

CDC data shows 24 counties have vaccinated fewer than 30% of their residents.

Thailand is lifting a pre-arrival registration requirement for foreign visitors that was seen as onerous and a drag on the recovery for a tourism industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic

World Trade Organization members have reached a string of deals and commitments aimed to limit overfishing, broaden production of COVID-19 vaccines in the developing world and reform a 27-year-old trade body that has been back on its heels in recent years

President Joe Biden says the American people are “really, really down” after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are hitting family budgets

In an abrupt change of course, the White House is now declining to comment on the frequency of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 testing regimen

Florida is the only state that hasn’t preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government

The Senate has approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits

Florida is the first state to advise against vaccinating healthy kids for COVID.

Biden tells AP that the notion that the 2021 coronavirus relief bill caused inflation is ‘bizarre’

Misconceptions about COVID in kids slowed study, researchers say.

Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted

Dr. Darien Sutton discusses the FDA panel's recommendation for the emergency use authorization for Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6 years old.

The trial of a British man charged with the premeditated murder of his ill wife in Cyprus’ coastal resort of Paphos has been pushed back until September and he will remain in custody

An Italian surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world’s first stem-cell windpipe transplants at Sweden’s leading hospital has been given a conditional sentence for causing bodily harm to a patient

After five weeks of declining coronavirus deaths, the number of fatalities reported globally increased by 4% last week, according to the World Health Organization

North Korea says it is fighting an outbreak of another infectious disease.

Half as many COVID tests are being performed compared to three months ago.

The first COVID-19 shots for infants, toddlers and preschoolers in the U.S. have moved a step closer

Fauci is a senior adviser to the president on COVID-19.

An FDA committee reviewed Pfizer and Moderna's shots for kids under 6.

A dozen students and two adults were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer program at an Alaska elementary school

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America’s pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus

Abortion rights activists have filed a legal protest in Malta’s courts demanding the legalization of abortion

FDA advisory panel backs COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, the last unprotected group

A federal appeals court panel is considering whether to continue blocking Arkansas' ban on gender confirming medical care for transgender youths

The Supreme Court says the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to hospitals and clinics that serve low-income communities

ABC News medical contributor Dr. John Brownstein discusses the possibility of the FDA recommending the authorization of pediatric vaccines that would make 18 million kids eligible for COVID shots.