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Attorneys have argued over whether a North Dakota judge should dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban before trial

A federal judge has struck down part of Ohio’s new 2023 election law, which put restrictions on voters with disabilities who were casting absentee ballots

So far, only 25 human cases have been reported in the U.S. this year.

Iowa’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant

Iowa law barring most abortions after six weeks will take effect Monday, judge orders

Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

Puerto Rico has lost thousands of its doctors in the past decade, many having fled to the U.S. mainland for better pay

Harris has previously advocated for a single-payer health care system.

A Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to three years of probation for calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths

A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse has pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts

White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor says President Joe Biden’s “symptoms have almost resolved completely” from COVID-19

A new study suggests that giving cash to poor people could result in fewer emergency department visits

Swallowing a handful of pills is a daily ritual for many people, but taking too many meds can cause problems

Restaurant critics appear to have the best job in journalism, enjoying meals a few nights a week on someone else’s dime

The number of heat-related deaths in Texas is rising among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl

Donald Trump’s campaign released an update on the former president’s health Saturday, one week after he survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania

An outbreak of listeria has U.S. health officials advising people who are pregnant, elderly or have compromised immune systems to avoid eating sliced deli meat

Some of the world's cleanest pigs are being raised in the Virginia mountains to supply kidneys and hearts for animal-to-human organ transplants

Using GPS devices, the group tracks homeless patients and provides care.

Cases have been reported in at least 12 states, the CDC said.

Some people develop a weird allergy to red meat after being bitten by a lone star tick yet find they can still eat pork from a surprising source - certain pigs originally bred for human organ transplants

At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters

US health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to deli meat has killed two people and sickened more than two dozen

No, you don't really have to wait 30 minutes after eating to go swimming

U.S. health officials have announced two more bird flu cases among farmworkers

A global technology outage has curtailed treatment at hospitals across the country

Speakers focused on inflation, crime and immigration at the convention.

Months beforehand, some Pennsylvania lawmakers had proposed to outlaw the type of rifle that was used in the assassination attempt against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Some hospitals opted to cancel elective and non-emergency surgeries.

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota is appealing a judge's dismissal of its lawsuit to remove an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot

One of the last remaining birthing units in southern Alabama is slated to close to qualify for federal funding that will save the hospital’s emergency services

Kansas isn’t enforcing a new law requiring abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders discusses her willingness to serve in second Trump administration.

President Joe Biden did not wear a face mask in public a couple of times after the White House announced he had tested positive for COVID-19

Federal health officials have authorized sales of Vuse Alto, the best-selling e-cigarette in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration made the decision Thursday, allowing Reynolds American to keep its reusable e-cigarette on the market for years to come

US regulators OK best-selling e-cigarette Vuse Alto, but only in tobacco flavor

A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana

An inquiry into the U.K. government's response to COVID-19 found it was ill-prepared for a pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health, with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war

Birth defects were not linked to COVID infection in the first trimester either.

The EPA's internal watchdog will investigate why the agency didn’t get its specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors into the air over East Palestine until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment last year

More than half of rural U.S. hospitals now lack labor and delivery units.

There’s a lot to be said for the work/play energy of a nice studio or other small apartment during the day

The EU general court says the European Commission did not allow the public enough access to information about COVID-19 vaccine purchase agreements it secured with pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic

The European Commission did not give the public enough information about COVID-19 vaccine deals, EU court says

At a clinic in the working class neighborhood, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City, Doctor Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian migrants

Israel’s 9-month-old war with Hamas in Gaza has decimated the territory’s medical system

In an excerpt of a recent conversation between former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F

Studies have shown that extreme heat can exacerbate anxiety and depression.

Arkansas is being sued for rejecting petitions in favor of a proposed ballot measure to scale back the state’s abortion ban