Latest Health Headlines

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  • Overdoses on the road: Drugged driving rises as a menace

    Police and rescue crews say drivers overdosing on heroin and other drugs are driving up the number of car crashes

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• Aug 16

  • White House: Gov't to make health law payments this month

    The White House says President Donald Trump will make August payments to insurers under the health-care law he wants to repeal and replace.

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • 'Healthy Living for Summer': Travel tips for eating smart and staying active

    Staying on track with your health while vacationing or traveling this summer.

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Express Scripts to limit opioids; doctors concerned

    Nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager will soon limit opioids prescribed to first-time users; American Medical Association criticizes move

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Austria orders recall of unapproved cancer drug

    Austrian authorities have ordered a recall of a cancer medication that was put on the market without proper approval

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Is it really Lyme? Researchers developing a new test to tell

    Diagnosing if a tick bite caused Lyme or something else can be difficult but scientists are developing a new way to catch the disease early _ using a...

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Cholera in Yemen: What you need to know

    Cholera has infected half a million people in Yemen so far this year.

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Belgium joins legal action against tainted egg 'cheats'

    Belgium's Agriculture Minister Denis Ducarme says the government will join in legal action against those responsible for the egg contamination...

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • US teen drug overdose deaths inch up after years of decline

    A new report finds drug overdose deaths among US teens have inched up after years of decline

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Study suggests you cannot be 'fat but fit'

    Researchers argue in a new study it is impossible to be obese and healthy.

    Aug 16

• Aug 16

  • Report: Higher premiums if Trump halts 'Obamacare' subsidies

    Congressional Budget Office: Higher premiums, fewer insurance options if Trump halts 'Obamacare' subsidies

    Aug 16

• Aug 15

  • Report: Higher premiums if Trump halts 'Obamacare' subsidies

    Congressional Budget Office: Higher premiums, fewer insurance options if Trump halts 'Obamacare' subsidies

    Aug 15

• Aug 15

  • Oregon governor expands abortion, reproductive coverage

    Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed into law what proponents called America's most progressive reproductive health policy

    Aug 15

• Aug 15

  • Court: State can't vaccinate kids in temporary custody

    The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that the state's child welfare agency cannot vaccinate children placed temporarily in its custody when the...

    Aug 15

• Aug 15

  • South Carolina sues drug manufacturer over opioid crisis

    South Carolina is the latest state to accuse a drug manufacturer of exacerbating its opioid drug crisis by using deceptive marketing

    Aug 15

• Aug 15

  • Lawsuit accuses drug manufacturer of worsening opioid crisis

    South Carolina is the latest state to accuse a drug manufacturer of exacerbating its opioid drug crisis by using deceptive marketing

    Aug 15

• Aug 15

  • Study links a lack of sleep in children with increased Type 2 diabetes risk

    What parents should know about the new research on Type 2 diabetes.

    Aug 15

• Breast Cancer

  Aug 15

  • Woman speaks out after 11 people in her family get breast cancer

    "I felt like the monster was chasing us," she told ABC News.

    Breast Cancer

    Aug 15

• Aug 15

  • How to eat right when you are feeling stressed

    Nutritionist Kelly LeVeque shares what to eat in order to feel your best.

    Aug 15

• Aug 14

  • Jury chosen for fraud case retrial due to sleeping attorney

    A jury has been chosen in the case of a Pennsylvania businessman accused of mortgage fraud who won a new trial because the judge, witnesses and jurors...

    Aug 14

• Aug 14

  • New life for Medicaid after GOP's health care debacle

    A 1960s Great Society program, Medicaid gets new life after Republican health care bill collapses

    Aug 14

• Aug 14

  • Police try out new database for documenting opioid overdoses

    Police in Massachusetts are testing a new database documenting opioid overdoses they hope will help departments share information in real time and get...

    Aug 14

• Aug 14

  • 'Motivated' podcast: How Colin O'Brady climbed seven summits and two poles

    How mountain climber Colin O'Brady shattered a record breaking challenge to climb seven summits and two poles.

    Aug 14

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• Aug 12

  • Lawmaker seeks probe after AP reveals maggots in NY facility

    AP Exclusive: A New York state lawmaker is seeking a federal investigation into facilities for the disabled after an Associated Press story revealed...

    Aug 12

• Aug 12

  • Experts: Herd immunity outside US slows Zika in Florida

    Health officials say a drop in Zika cases in the Caribbean and South America has helped slow the spread of the mosquito-borne virus in Florida this...

    Aug 12

• Aug 12

  • 35 children die in north Indian hospital in 3 days

    Parents of at least 35 children who have died in a state-run hospital in northern India over the past three days have alleged that the fatalities were...

    Aug 12

• Aug 12

  • Doughnut shop blamed for Ohio norovirus outbreak to reopen

    Health officials in Ohio say a doughnut shop blamed for a norovirus outbreak that has sickened more than 400 people will be allowed to reopen

    Aug 12

• Aug 12

  • Montana's Health Co-op remains standing as others falter

    Montana's health care co-op resumes accepting new enrollees on Sunday after it voluntarily pulled itself from the state's insurance marketplace in...

    Aug 12

• Aug 12

  • Parents test school liability in bullying and child suicide

    The parents of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who hanged himself from his bunk bed with a necktie are testing the issue of school liability in suicides blamed...

    Aug 12

• Aug 11

  • 'Healthy Living for Summer': Having a balanced diet

    Understanding smart and effective ways to diet and understanding cravings.

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Hospital's partially evacuated over odor, 19 workers treated

    Nineteen staff members from a New Hampshire hospital emergency department that was evacuated because of an unknown odor have been evaluated after some...

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Cleveland Clinic won't move Mar-a-Lago event despite protest

    A leading U.S. hospital says it won't move its annual fundraiser away from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort despite pressure from health professionals...

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Widening egg scandal hits 17 countries in Europe

    A costly scandal over tainted eggs has the EU planning a summit for its ministers and food safety agencies next month

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Tips for maintaining a healthy diet

    ABC News' Olivia Smith talks to nutritionist Shawn Stevenson about how to combat stress eating and cravings, and keep a healthy diet.

    Aug 11

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• Aug 11

  • Teachers who dragged autistic boy by ankle won't be charged

    Two Ohio kindergarten teachers seen on video carrying an autistic boy down hallways and dragging him on the floor by an ankle won't be criminally...

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Court: Students must be protected from insect-borne diseases

    The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled schools must warn and protect students from the foreseeable risk of insect-borne diseases when organizing...

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Philippines to cull 200,000 fowl after bird flu outbreak

    The Philippines will cull at least 200,000 birds after confirming its first bird flu outbreak, but no animal-to-human transmission has been reported

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • New study links C-sections with hysterectomy complications later in life

    What to know about the new research on C-sections.

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • The Latest: 2 Austria firms recall eggs bound for eateries

    Upper Austria's provincial government says two companies have recalled eggs possibly tainted with Fipronil and food control agents are conducting...

    Aug 11

• Aug 11

  • Pfau, 'Mother Teresa of Pakistan,' dies at age 87

    Ruth Pfau, a German physician and nun who devoted her life to the eradication of leprosy in Pakistan, has died at age 87

    Aug 11

• Aug 10

  • Trump to declare opioid crisis a 'national emergency'

    Trump says he will officially declare the opioid crisis a "national emergency"

    Aug 10

• Health Care

  Aug 10

  • Health insurers weigh double-digit premium raises amid Trump 'uncertainty': Study

    As deadlines approach, no decision on subsidies and the individual mandate.

    Health Care

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • Health officials tie norovirus outbreak to doughnut shop

    Health officials say more than 200 cases of norovirus have been tied to a doughnut shop in northwest Ohio

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • Yemen's civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground

    Destruction from Yemen's two-year civil war has turned country into incubator for cholera

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • Case of maggots in throat offers rare look at neglect probes

    AP Exclusive: Maggot infestation of severely disabled New York man offers rare glimpse into often-secretive probes of neglect in state-run...

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • Dutch arrest 2 suspects in investigation into tainted eggs

    Dutch investigators detained two men Thursday suspected of being involved in the illegal use of pesticide at poultry farms that sparked a massive food...

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • The Latest: Romania seizes eggs imported from Germany

    Reports of possibly tainted eggs linked to the pesticide scandal in the Netherlands and Belgium are cropping up in several countries

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • Study says Trump moves trigger health premium jumps for 2018

    Trump administration moves are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many people _ according...

    Aug 10

• Aug 10

  • Yemen national blood bank faces threat of closure

    Yemen's national blood bank faces shutdown after medical aid charity said it would stop its two-year support

    Aug 10

• Pope

  Aug 10

  • Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop offering euthanasia

    Pope Francis has ordered a Belgian Catholic charity to stop offering euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals

    Pope

    Aug 10