Health News

Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance next year

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure the 19th century law remains in the past

A look at the numbers behind the decreases in maternal mortality after at least three years of increases, according to new CDC data.

Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature has completed a last-ditch effort to revive a bill to regulate transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings

The South Carolina Senate has approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

Arizona’s Democratic governor signs bill to repeal the state’s 1864 ban on nearly all abortions

Georgia’s governor has signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement

The fate of a decades-old Tennessee policy that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth certificates is in the hands of a federal appeals court

Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher rates than white people

South Carolina’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks is back in court and centered on the definition of fetal heartbeat

Max, who has autism, and his brother Jake are amassing millions of followers and even more views on social media. They want to show the world that autism is a superpower. ABC News' Em Nguyen reports.

A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients has pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges and been sentenced to life in prison

Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age

Millions of Americans have different forms of the chronic condition, according to the Arthritis Foundation.

The first serious effort by Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature to expand Medicaid has died

Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo might more easily spread among people

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed a bill to repeal a ban on most abortions

New government data suggests U.S. maternal deaths have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels

Abortion is still consuming U.S. state legislatures, courts and political campaigns two years after the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would upend the status quo was leaked

Among racial and ethnic groups, Black women had the highest rates.

Supporters of an abortion rights initiative in South Dakota have submitted far more signatures than required to make the ballot this fall

Federal workplace safety officials say a home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house

A 21-year-old Utah woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a friend was shot in what police said was an uncompleted suicide pact

A staffing company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and a whistleblower

It was a Texas veterinarian who collected samples from dairy farms that confirmed the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in cattle for the first time

Dr. Robyn Schickler, CMO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, talks about what she's telling her patients and why this issue is so important the 2024 election.

The beginning of the Change Healthcare cyberattack happened when hackers entered a server that lacked multifactor authentication

Millions of Americans who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if they stop taking them

More than half of Americans with a mental health condition don’t receive treatment, according to a report from nonprofit Mental Health America.

60% of Americans give a poor or failing grade to how mental health is treated.

The Arizona Legislature has approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions

Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care

No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a traffic light in suburban Atlanta, causing the death of a young boy

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been allowed back into his lab after days of protest

Chinese scientist who published COVID-19 virus sequence is allowed back in his lab after days of sit-in protest

The Mississippi House Democratic leader says a Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by Republican leaders could struggle for bipartisan support

A federal judge has ruled that some of North Carolina government’s restrictions on dispensing abortion pills are unlawful

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug

At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E

Kansas is requiring abortion providers to share patient information with the state and increasing funds to anti-abortion centers, while bills to loosen a restrictive ban in Louisiana face an uphill battle

The overdoses were concentrated downtown before spreading across the city.

Attorney General Garland plans to endorse DEA proposal to reclassify marijuana as less dangerous drug, AP source says

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will test ground beef for bird flu

There were 5,615 COVID hospitalizations in the most recent week data available.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country

The Federal Trade Commission is challenging patents on 20 brand-name drugs, including the blockbuster weight-loss injection Ozempic

The risk was higher for all of the five leading causes of death.

The risk was higher for all of the five leading causes of death.

The H5N1 virus has been found in at least 34 cattle herds across nine states.

Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger — at age 40