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HPV is the most common STI in the U.S. and can lead to cervical cancer.

The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy

Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in US drug policy

An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says his death was caused by eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract

Medical examiner links spicy tortilla chips to death of Massachusetts teen who took part in social media challenge

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers

A South Korean court has ruled in favor of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions

Yonhap news agency says Seoul court has ruled in favor of the government’s plan to boost medical school admissions

A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on Maui has found that up to 74% of participants may have difficulty breathing and otherwise have poor respiratory health

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included ...

A new abortion clinic is going to open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the state’s role as a regional hub for reproductive health services since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

The judge has refused to discard a $38 million verdict in the landmark trial about physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center

Walgreens said its generic version of Narcan will be priced at $34.99.

Five NHL players left their teams this season to receive care from an off-ice assistance program run by the league and union

South Africa's president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the healthcare system to address deep inequality, but it faces legal challenges from critics

How gratitude practices can help boost your mood and mental health.

The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year

US government data shows the number of fatal overdoses fell last year

Overdose deaths involving opioids, including fentanyl, fell from 2022 to 2023.

If you’ve tried meditating but can’t sit still, you’re not alone

The World Health Organization has authorized a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide against the mosquito-borne disease that has already sparked numerous outbreaks across the Americas this year

Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick sided with the majority in restoring an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions

Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found

A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after six months at a Chicago area hospital

He calls out mistakes in how EPA used sensor plane after Ohio derailment.

An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison

A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years

Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite an outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows

As AI moves into medicine, perhaps no one has more to gain or lose than radiologists, the doctors who review medical scans for signs of cancer and other diseases

A new survey says medical providers were prescribing abortion pills to about 8,000 women a month in states with abortion bans or bans on telehealth abortions by the end of 2023

Police across the United States have been warned for decades that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly

For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm

Arizona’s highest court has given the state’s attorney general another 90 days to decide further legal action in the case over a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban

A lawyer representing U.S. military families suing over a 2021 jet fuel leak into a Navy drinking water system in Hawaii is asking a judge to award plaintiffs a range of about $225,000 to about $1.25 million each in damages

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law regulating transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings

KP.2 currently makes up an estimated 28.2% of cases in the U.S., CDC data shows.

Impassioned supporters and opponents of a far-reaching Equal Rights Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution flocked to the State Capitol ahead of crucial votes aimed at putting it on the 2026 ballot

Republicans say the Wisconsin Senate will be voting to override the Democratic governor’s veto of at least five bills

A group of Atlantic City casino workers has asked a judge to ban smoking in the gambling halls, citing the toxic effects of working there

Dr. Cyril Wecht has died at age 93 after spending much of his life pressing his view that more than one shooter was involved in President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination

Helen Ryvar took up running in 2020 just before Britain went into lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic and after being told her ex-husband had died following a mental health battle

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest for a second straight year

Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead

The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists

Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it

Violence is traumatizing Haitian children

There can be lifelong challenges for people with sickle cell disease in rural Uganda, where it remains poorly understood

Local governments across the country are receiving money from opioid settlements, but not all of them know how to use it