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A new abortion clinic has brought the debate over reproductive rights to a small college town in the southeast corner of Kansas

A new abortion clinic has brought the debate over reproductive rights to a small college town in the southeast corner of Kansas

The findings show that teenage girls were more affected than teenage boys, potentially impacting their mental health and even their behavior.

Time is running out for local governments to use billions of dollars of federal pandemic relief funds

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Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions is officially repealed

Walgreens agreed to pay $106 million to settle lawsuits that alleged it submitted false payment claims with government health care programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed

Nick Saban has a message for Tua Tagovailoa: Listen to experts, then decide what happens next

Nevada is joining a list of states easing access to abortion for more lower-income women

Boar’s Head is closing the Virginia plant tied to a deadly listeria outbreak

A federal bill has been proposed to ban in-game advertising and bets on college athletes

Nebraska has certified two ballot measures to legalize medical marijuana even though the state’s Republican attorney general says their supporters may have submitted at least several thousand invalid signatures

A political committee behind the campaign to pass a constitutional right to abortion in Florida has filed a lawsuit against a state health care agency that it alleges is carrying out a taxpayer-funded “misinformation” campaign against the November ball...

An Associated Press analysis has found that hospitals are rarely fined for violating a federal law that is supposed to guarantee that patients with medical emergencies get the treatment they need

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot

The Nebraska Supreme Court says competing measures to expand and limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media

The World Health Organization says it has granted its first authorization for use of a vaccine against mpox in adults, calling it an important step toward fighting against the disease in Africa

A San Jose-based biotechnology company that helps doctors detect genetic causes for cancer is among those that could be cut out of the U.S. market over ties to China

A county in western Arkansas and a health provider have agreed to a $6 million settlement with the family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held in a local jail

Testimony has begun in a civil trial against a Virginia hospital that treats vulnerable children, its owner and its former medical director in a lawsuit filed by three former patients who allege that they were touched inappropriately during physical exams

The first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years was detected in July.

A resolution introduced by Congressional Democrats would make clear that U.S. emergency rooms need to provide emergency abortions when a woman’s health or life is at risk, despite strict state abortion bans

Over 552,000 children were vaccinated, according to the World Health Organization.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she has been diagnosed with skin cancer and is scheduled to undergo a removal procedure this week

Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to vote next week to adopt two resolutions to hold Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt after he refused to attend a hearing Thursday despite being issued...

Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a “one-off,” stand-alone illness

The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more than 100 mpox-related deaths in a week, a toll the agency's director-general described as “not acceptable.”

A state judge has struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable

North Dakota judge strikes down the state's abortion ban and says women have a right to the procedure until viability

The Ashaninka of the Amonia River, inhabitants of the western Amazon, reclaimed their land from cattle ranchers 30 years ago

Three Red Cross staff members have been killed by artillery strikes in eastern Ukraine

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country's much-loved but overstretched health system is in critical condition and must “reform or die.”

Georgia’s state House speaker says lawmakers in 2025 will consider new policies after a school shooting killed four at a high school northeast of Atlanta

Police say a pair of gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire and killed a policeman guarding a group of polio workers going door-to-door in a vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan

Piles of mine waste that loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville are a reminder of the city’s boom days

The U.S. is divided when it comes to state and federal marijuana policy, but recent political developments could move the country toward greater acceptance of cannabis

A passenger train in South Africa has been transformed into a mobile health facility

The number of abortions in Florida dropped after the state's ban on them after sixth week of pregnancy took effect in May

Former President Donald Trump says he would not sign a federal abortion ban, insisting that a ban would not pass Congress anyway

Trump previously said he wanted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has said he is prepared to pursue contempt charges against Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre if he fails to show up at a hearing Thursday despite being issued a subpoena

An Indiana county judge has ruled against abortion providers who are seeking to broaden access to the procedure under the near-total ban state lawmakers passed in 2022

A new study shows that more women chose to have their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022

Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the northwest, killing an officer and a polio worker

When President Joe Biden had given bumbling remarks about abortion on the debate stage, it was widely viewed as a missed opportunity — a failure, even — on a powerful and motivating issue for Democrats at the ballot box

The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants

A drug approved to treat obesity in adults and teens is safe and effective for use in kids as young as 6, when combined with diet and exercise

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has unveiled plans to create a statewide drug prevention program

State police in Florida are showing up at the homes of voters who signed a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot