Latest Health Headlines

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  • More cancer patients now have insurance because of health care law

    The law has reduced the number of uninsured Americans.

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• Oct 19

  • The Latest: 2 senators formally propose health deal

    Two leading senators have formally proposed their bipartisan compromise for steadying health insurance markets

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Amid doctors' hunger strike, Poland may boost health budget

    Poland's government has announced plans to significantly increase spending on health care as a hunger protest by young doctors demanding more funds...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Bipartisan plan to curb health premiums gets strong support

    A bipartisan proposal to calm churning health insurance markets is gaining momentum

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal

    Backyard chickens bring little-known risk of disease; CDC says infections have spiked

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Trump's health subsidy shutdown could lead to free insurance

    How's that? Trump's health subsidy shutdown could lead to free insurance, experts say

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Marburg hemorrhagic fever kills 1 person in Uganda

    Uganda's health minister says 1 person has recently died of Marburg, a highly infectious disease that, like Ebola, manifests as a viral hemorrhagic...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Romanian health workers protest against tax plan

    Some 7,000 Romanian public sector health workers are demonstrating in the capital, demanding the government eliminate a plan to make them pay more...

    Oct 19

• Oct 19

  • Report: Medicaid enrollments, costs begin to stabilize

    The Kaiser Family Foundation has found more stability in state Medicaid programs after recent years of surging enrollments and costs

    Oct 19

• Oct 18

  • The Latest: Governors urge Congress to back health subsidies

    A bipartisan group of governors is urging congressional leaders to support a plan to calm health insurance markets

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • States ask US court to keep up health subsidies cut by Trump

    Nineteen top state government lawyers are asking a U.S. judge in California to force the Trump administration to make health care subsidy payments...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • FDA OKs 2nd gene therapy for blood cancer; 1st for adults

    U.S. regulators approve 2nd gene therapy for blood cancer, 1st one for adults

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • GOP, Dem senators push health deal as Trump keeps distance

    Author of a bipartisan compromise to calm health insurance markets says they'll push the proposal, despite opposition from President Donald Trump.

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • AP Exclusive: Training on vet suicides set at Nevada prisons

    AP Exclusive: The state of Nevada has agreed to pay $93,000 to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a 27-year-old Army veteran who was...

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Are insurers 'enriched' by Obama health law, as Trump says?

    Are insurers 'enriched' by Obama health law, as Trump says?

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Ultra-personal therapy: Gene tumor boards guide cancer care

    Cancer patients increasingly are having their care guided by tumor boards, which match treatments to gene mutations

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Man sentenced for beating wife after dreaming she cheated

    A Pennsylvania man who dreamed his wife was cheating on him and then woke up and tried to strangle her has been sentenced to six to 12 years in prison

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Shape up with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's official workout

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's trainer shares her workout.

    Oct 18

• Oct 18

  • Czech doctors strike for a day to pay, bureaucracy

    Thousands of general practitioners across the Czech Republic have closed their clinics and offices for 24 hours to demand higher pay and protest the...

    Oct 18

• Oct 17

  • The Latest: Senators announce plan for insurance markets

    Republican and Democratic senators have announced a plan aimed at stabilizing America's health insurance markets

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • A short-term health deal by senators _ but Trump a question

    Senators announce a bipartisan deal to stabilize health insurance markets in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to end federal payments to...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Man loses 100 pounds in a year, assisted by donated fitness trackers

    “It was life-changing,” said Ricky Chakoutis.

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Woman writes tribute to nurses caring for her 2-year-old with cancer

    Shelby Skiles' note was liked by thousands on Facebook.

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Appeals court tosses $72 million award in talcum powder case

    A Missouri appeals court has thrown out a $72 million verdict awarded to a woman who claimed baby powder and other Johnson & Johnson products...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • The Latest: Appeals court tosses award in talcum powder case

    A spokeswoman for Johnson & Johnson says the company is pleased with a Missouri appeals court ruling that threw out a $72 million award for an Alabama...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Key Republican senator says he and Democratic lawmaker have reached deal on health care subsidies

    Key Republican senator says he and Democratic lawmaker have reached deal on health care subsidies

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Appeals court tosses $72 million verdict in lawsuit alleging Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to cancer

    Appeals court tosses $72 million verdict in lawsuit alleging Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to cancer

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Book's challenge: Can you do squats like Justice Ginsburg?

    Personal trainer Bryant Johnson has been working out 84-year-old Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for years. In a book out Wednesday, he...

    Oct 17

• Oct 17

  • Kids in youth football may take more hard head hits than we think: Study

    Researchers found young players experienced high-magnitude head impacts.

    Oct 17

• Oct 16

  • Raw sewage contaminating waters in Puerto Rico after Maria

    Damage from Hurricane Maria is letting raw sewage pour into the rivers and reservoirs of Puerto Rico, forcing people without running water to bathe...

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Correction: Pain Gap story

    Correction: Pain Gap story

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • What to know about hepatitis A, as California outbreak triggers state of emergency

    The state's hepatitis A outbreak has infected at least 578 people, killed 18.

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • In Madagascar, plague outbreak now threatens largest cities

    In Madagascar, plague outbreak now threatens largest cities; victims no longer 'dirty people'

    Oct 16

• Oct 16

  • Collins: Trump should back effort to resume health subsidy

    A key moderate Republican is urging President Donald Trump to support a bipartisan Senate effort to reinstate insurer payments

    Oct 16

• Oct 15

  • Doctor's research could buy time for snake bite victims

    A researcher at the University of Arizona is experimenting with a new therapy to help treat rattlesnake bites

    Oct 15

• Oct 15

  • Collins urges Trump to back effort to restore health subsidy

    A bipartisan bid to shield consumers from rising premiums is getting new attention after President Donald Trump's decision to halt federal payments to...

    Oct 15

• Oct 15

  • Arizona switch to deaths database creates backup of bodies

    Funeral directors, physicians and state and county officials are struggling to implement Arizona's new online system to register deaths and generate...

    Oct 15

• Oct 14

  • Pro-Trump states most affected by his health care decision

    President Trump took a major step this week to gut the Affordable Care Act

    Oct 14

• Oct 14

  • Dozens gravely wounded in Vegas face long road to recovery

    The fight is just beginning for many of the dozens of people still hospitalized in Las Vegas from the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history

    Oct 14

• Oct 14

  • AP FACT CHECK: Trump's tax plan, health care distortions

    AP FACT CHECK: President Donald Trump is presenting a distorted picture of his tax plan, record and approach to health care

    Oct 14

• Oct 14

  • The Latest: Trump cuts off insurers, rattling health market

    President Donald Trump's cut-off of federal payments to insurers is jolting the health care and political worlds

    Oct 14

• Oct 14

  • Key questions and answers about Trump's health care move

    Higher costs for many, more complications all around. Questions and answers on Trump's health care stop payment

    Oct 14

• Oct 13

  • Trump's blow to 'Obamacare' jolts health consumers, politics

    President Donald Trump's cut-off of federal payments to insurers is jolting the health care and political worlds

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • Ambulances with expired medicine, broken equipment withdrawn

    Rhode Island health officials have removed hundreds of ambulances from service after inspections found critical deficiencies including expired...

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • California declares emergency to fight hepatitis A outbreak

    California Gov. Jerry Brown declares state of emergency to combat hepatitis A outbreak that has claimed 18 lives in San Diego

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • Many states, consumers alarmed by Trump's health care order

    Consumers, health officials and state attorneys general say they are alarmed by the Trump administration decision to end federal subsidies that...

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • Key questions and answers about Trump's health care move

    Higher costs for many, more complications all around. Questions and answers on Trump's health care stop payment

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • California governor declares emergency as San Diego heptatitis A outbreak leads to vaccine shortage

    California governor declares emergency as San Diego heptatitis A outbreak leads to vaccine shortage

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • Markets Right Now: Technology companies lead US stock gains

    Stock indexes are slightly higher on Wall Street in midday trading as technology companies post solid gains.

    Oct 13

• Oct 13

  • Puerto Rico hurricane may cause shortage of hospital IV bags

    Drug and medical product maker Baxter is predicting a near-term shortage of small bags of saline solution widely used in hospitals due to Hurricane...

    Oct 13