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A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court determination that a Montana health clinic submitted more than 300 false asbestos claims on behalf of patients

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines

Some groups that have been helping women pay for abortions and associated travel are cutting back their aid as travel costs rise

More than a decade after retiring from football, Brett Favre says he has Parkinson’s disease

The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, one of the consequences of the violence that has engul...

The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment last year makes it hard for residents to know the full extent of the contamination they have been exposed to that they...

Hospitals are facing questions about why they denied care to pregnant patients and whether state abortion bans have influenced how they treat those patients

A former New York City official who helped coordinate the city’s response to the pandemic has been fired from his private-sector job

Survivors of child sex abuse at juvenile detention facilities in Illinois are hoping for justice

Senators grilled Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Jørgensen Tuesday over the costs of Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs.

Students in school buildings and residents in nearby homes have been told to evacuate near Cincinnati after a dangerous chemical began leaking from a railcar

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania can sue prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre told a congressional committee Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

A person has died in New York state from eastern equine encephalitis

An influential group of law enforcement leaders is pushing police departments to change how officers subdue people so they avoid “consistent blind spots” in the use of physical force that contribute to civilian deaths

A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is prioritizing abortion rights in a key U.S. Senate race in Maryland against Republican Larry Hogan

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S. About 4 in 10 Americans have obesity overall and about 1 in 10 have severe obesity

The CDC report found almost 10% of U.S. adults had severe obesity.

A Miami charity is helping children with cancer by sending them denim jackets and tote bags adorned with decorative patches

A recently elected state lawmaker is among those who were arrested outside a Hawaii hospital

A look at the numbers behind the potential brain damage former NFL players continue to live with linked to repeated trauma to the head.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring school districts to restrict student phone use

Some Florida school districts are rolling back a more comprehensive approach to sex education in favor of abstinence-focused lessons

Three Tufts University men’s lacrosse players remain hospitalized with a rare muscle injury participating in a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout earlier this month

Federal law enforcement officials in Connecticut have announced criminal indictments against seven people in a case they're calling one of the largest counterfeit pill busts ever in New England

The patient was from Ulster County, according to the state Department of Health.

Working five days a week has long been the corporate cultural norm

Sudanese health authorities say cholera has killed at least 388 people and sickened about 13,000 others over the past two months

A Lebanese ophthalmologist has been working around the clock trying to keep up with the flood of patients with eye injuries after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded en masse

The U.N. General Assembly has approved a blueprint to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges

Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests delivered to their home free of charge starting later this month

Kate, the Princess of Wales, has made her first public appearance since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties

If you’re trying to lose a bit of weight and want a new way to do it, stair-climbing as a regular exercise — or just adding a few flights a day — might be for you

The rare mosquito-borne virus was detected in Ulster County.

A dozen Tufts University men’s lacrosse players have been diagnosed with a rare muscle injury following a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout the team conducted

A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs has been revived by a federal appeals court

Democratic Gov. John Carney has vetoed a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware

The federal government is suing some pharmacy benefit managers over a system of drug rebates that regulators say has made the price of insulin soar for patients

The Navy says its highest-ranking military officer has been successfully treated for early-stage breast cancer

Julie Flygare, president and CEO of Project Sleep, discusses the neurological disorder ahead of World Narcolepsy Day.

The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month

For the first time since she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris has given a speech focused squarely on abortion rights

Tests on dead Cape fur seals in South Africa have shown some had rabies

Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament, young people around the world staged fresh marches and said their protests are not being sufficiently acted upon

An anti-abortion group's lawsuit to invalidate an abortion rights measure appearing on South Dakota's statewide ballot won't be resolved until after the November election

However, overdose deaths remain higher than pre-pandemic levels.

In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductive care in new and surprising ways

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people