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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

The state of North Dakota is asking a judge to pause his ruling from last week that struck down North Dakota's abortion ban as unconstitutional

The deaths of two women in Georgia have been tied to a state law that bans most abortions after roughly six weeks

The African health agency says that Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses it obtained from Nigeria

Members of a Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Texas-based Steward Health Care have adopted two resolutions designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt for not testifying before the panel

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Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard

Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency

This fall, hundreds of the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness in Vermont must leave state-funded motel rooms where they’ve been living as the state winds down its pandemic-era motel voucher program

As Senate Republicans block an IVF protection bill, ABC News takes a look at the numbers behind the surging costs of IVF access as more American families turn to fertility treatments.

The Los Angeles area is seeing more cases of people with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, a year after the first such case was reported in California

The cases have doubled this year compared to last year, according to the CDC.

A longtime donor who has given more than $160 million to Tulane University is the new namesake of the university’s expanding school of public health

The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is banning the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky

Kentucky's governor has signed an executive order banning the use of 'conversion therapy'

Pakistani police say they have arrested the key suspect in the gang rape of a woman polio worker who was assaulted by three men during last week’s vaccination campaign

FIFA has teamed up with the World Health Organization for a campaign to educate the soccer industry about the risks of concussion injuries

A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty products

A drug dealer who sold a fentanyl-laced pill is liable for $5.8 million in the death of the woman to whom he sold it

The hallmarks of climate change — extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding — are being seen and felt around the globe. Drought in Brazil. Wildfires in Portugal, Peru and the Western U.S. Severe flooding swamping Central Europe, Southeast Asia and Western Africa. Multiple wildfires Firefighters across northern Portugal are working to contain some 100 wildfires caused by hot, dry conditions, stretching crews thin. Fires have forced residents to flee their homes and are blamed for the deaths of at least six people, including four firefighters. In Peru, wildfires have left at least 15 people dead since July and 22 of the nation's 24 regions have active outbreaks. Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service, SERFOR, says the effects of climate change are intensifying conditions that help spread fire. In Brazil, flames were burning through Brasilia National Park. And in California,...

The Miami Dolphins have placed Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve after the quarterback was diagnosed with his third concussion in two years