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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

A residential care center employee in Maine is going to prison after pleading guilty to what prosecutors described as “grotesque and pervasive” assaults on a disabled man

Cuomo said he never directed staff to under-report nursing home-related deaths.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo began his public testimony before Congress on his COVID-19 nursing home policies on Tuesday.

Missouri high court rules a measure to restore abortion rights will be on the ballot, despite Republican opposition

A fourth person has died amid an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at an assisted living facility in upstate New York

King Charles III is preparing to visit Australia and Samoa next month

Some cancer patients are hitting coverage limits on a cheap anti-nausea pill that can ward off waves of vomiting after treatment

Authorities in Congo say 50,000 doses of the mpox vaccine from the United States have arrived in the country

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to publicly testify for the first time before Congress on his COVID-19 nursing home policies.

A new study says the amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, and it's helping to turbocharge climate change

An inquiry into an English hospital where a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill seven others has begun as her supporters push to clear her name

The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that an abortion-rights measure will be on the state’s November ballot

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced blistering criticism over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when the virus spreading through nursing homes during often combative congressional subcommittee testimony

State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November

With ballot deadlines approaching, Nebraska and Missouri courts are weighing whether amendments on abortion will go before voters

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Maine for what it described as unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-operated juvenile detention facility

Donald Trump has signaled support for a potentially historic federal policy shift to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

The former head of food services for New York City public schools has been sentenced to two years in prison for a bribery scandal that resulted in children being served chicken tenders contaminated with metal and bone

Dozens of women who say they suffered excruciating pain at a Yale University fertility clinic because a nurse stole fentanyl and replaced it with saline have settled their lawsuits against the Ivy League school

Kate, the Princess of Wales, says she has completed chemotherapy and will return to some public duties in the coming months