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Wildlife authorities say a raccoon in Maine was euthanized and tested for rabies after a woman brought it into a pet store for a nail trim and some customers kissed it

ABC News' Ike Eijochi reports on CDC data showing that many men are experiencing mental illness and are more likely to die by suicide.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion

Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state’s pioneering drug decriminalization policy, stands these days at over a quarter-billion dollars

Emergency dispatch logs in Portland, Oregon, show that a man died while waiting over a half-hour for an ambulance after being struck by a hit-and-run driver last month

Supporters of an Indianapolis doctor have voiced frustration with the Indiana medical board’s decision that she violated patient privacy laws when she talked with a newspaper reporter about providing an abortion last summer to a 10-year-old Ohio rape v...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it's gotten permission from U.S. regulators to begin testing its device in people

Iowa teachers are now banned from raising gender identity or sexual orientation issues with children through the sixth grade

Iowa governor signs bill banning gender identity instruction in schools, echoing measures in other Republican-led states

A judge has put a temporary halt to South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure

Judge halts South Carolina’s new law banning abortions around 6 weeks of pregnancy so state Supreme Court can review

Dr. Alok Patel answers viewer questions about medical conditions that may impair driving, how important the BMI chart is for children and if pool floats are safe for kids and toddlers.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills is pumping the brakes on a paid family and medical leave proposal promoted by her fellow Democrats

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has stripped one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious, high-volume orders at the hei...

DEA revokes license of drug distributor Morris & Dickson for turning blind eye to suspicious orders in opioid crisis

Indiana board reprimands doctor for violating privacy laws by talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old's abortion

A Pennsylvania doctor who pleaded guilty in a pain pill prescription scheme in West Virginia has been sentenced to six months in prison

Minnesota workers will be entitled to paid time off when they’re seriously ill or to care for newborns and loved ones starting in 2026

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic

Colorado medical providers will need to get patients’ prior consent before medical students can perform pelvic exams on them while they are unconscious for a procedure under a bill signed into law

A new study suggests dozens of U.S. cities are at risk for mpox outbreaks this summer

U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid

A federal lawsuit alleges that Tennessee’s decision to deny its employees gender-affirming care is unconstitutional and discriminatory

South Carolina governor signs bill banning most abortions around 6 weeks of pregnancy; advocates plan to challenge it

South Carolina governor signs bill banning most abortions around 6 weeks of pregnancy; advocates plan to challenge it

An Indiana board has decided to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she violated patient privacy laws by talking publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio

A wave of newly approved abortion restrictions in the Southeastern United States has sent providers scrambling to reconfigure their services for a region with already severely limited access

Federal officials say over 200 patients could be at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures at clinics in a Mexico border city

The Republican-controlled Louisiana legislative committee has voted to a kill a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for minors

The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit

Nine of the sick people reported eating Papa Murphy's raw cookie dough.

There are different kinds of salmonella bacteria but most cause an illness called salmonellosis.

At least 17 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the Hammanskraal township outside South Africa's capital of Pretoria

Resident physicians who went on strike at New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital Center have reached a tentative deal on the third day of their walkout

Resident physicians who went on strike at New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital Center have reached a tentative deal on the third day of their walkout

Officials say crews are making substantial progress in recovering contaminated groundwater at a Minnesota nuclear plant

The presidential candidate didn't say how many weeks a ban should encompass.

A new study shows a daily multivitamin may boost memory function in some people, although the results don't change recommendations about use of the supplements

As summer quickly approaches, more people are drawn outside but this brings a risk of skin cancer. Dr. Alok Patel has what you need to know to protect your skin.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge’s recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands o...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge’s recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands o...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge’s recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands o...

A former Seattle man who stole over $1 million in jobless benefits and small business loans during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison

A western Michigan man who pleaded no contest to shooting an 84-year-old woman campaigning against abortion rights at his home has been sentenced to community service

Protesters cut short a rare outdoor meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday where the board president had planned to question Mayor London Breed over the city's drug crisis

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies are investigating reports of 18 salmonella infections linked to Papa Murphy's cookie dough

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies are investigating reports of 18 salmonella infections linked to Papa Murphy's cookie dough

South Carolina Senate passes ban on most abortions after around 6 weeks of pregnancy; governor has said he will sign it

The Biden administration says it is planning to conduct a yearly audit to verify the prices drug makers charge on a handful of the costliest prescriptions covered by Medicaid

Attorneys for a group of workers who believe their cleanup of a massive coal ash spill led to a slew of illnesses have reached a settlement with the contractor