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ABC News’ Morgan Norwood has the details on a Connecticut woman who has become the first non-resident to use Vermont’s aid in dying law.

Crib cameras are offering a clue to a rare but devastating tragedy _ when seemingly healthy young children suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why

Long-held Republican opposition to broader health care coverage may be softening in Georgia and Mississippi

Lynda Bluestein suffered from terminal ovarian and fallopian tube cancer.

Pregnant people in New York would have 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments under a new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel talks about the rise of illnesses like COVID-19, RSV and the flu during the winter months and what you can do to protect yourself.

Lynda Bluestein is suffering from terminal ovarian and fallopian tube cancer.

Walgreens is chopping its dividend nearly in half as the drugstore chain looks to strengthen its balance sheet

The longest planned strike in the history of Britain’s state-funded National Health Service has entered its second day of six with doctors in England at loggerheads with hospitals over requests for some to return to work to cover urgent needs

The swift and safe evacuation of a Japan Airlines jet that caught fire after hitting a Coast Guard aircraft while it was landing Tuesday at Tokyo’s Haneda airport reflects the carrier's dogged dedication to safety, born of hard experience

Oregon police and medical officials have confirmed that they are investigating the theft of medications prescribed to patients at a hospital in the southern part of the state

The findings highlight the importance of encouraging people to use hearing aids.

The findings highlight the importance of encouraging people to use hearing aids.

More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face a post-holiday spike in flu and other illnesses

Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization

The ruling refuted guidance from the Biden administration.

Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer's drugs seep inside the brain faster — using sound waves to jiggle a temporary opening in its protective shield

Suicide-prevention barriers at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge have been completed more than a decade after officials greenlighted a project to install stainless-steel mesh nets on both sides of the 1.7-mile bridge

COVID and flu cases have been rising across the United States.

COVID and flu cases have been rising across the United States.

Dr. Alok Patel breaks down easy resolutions anyone can do as we enter 2024.

The alcohol-free trend is taking off, especially for younger adults, it's going beyond the beginning of the year.

Thousands of doctors have walked off their jobs in Britain at the start of a six-day strike that's set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service

Whooping cough cases in 2023 were nearly twice as high as in 2019.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans says the Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency care law to require that Texas hospitals provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy

Frank Ryan, the quarterback who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964, has died

It's unclear what the source is of the carbon monoxide poisoning.

New research shows thousands of women in the U.S. have stocked up on abortion pills just in case they need them

Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having “dark conversations” about harming himself before he hit “the emergency brake” and sought treatment for depression

The new screening process focuses on individual risk factors.

It’s an annual end-of-year exercise in futility for many

Research shows resolutions can be hard to maintain as the year goes on.

California will soon become one of the first states to provide free health care to all low-income immigrants living in the state illegally

U.S. officials are seizing more shipments of unauthorized electronic cigarettes

An Idaho judge has denied a request by the state’s top legal chief to throw out a lawsuit seeking to clarify the exemptions tucked inside the state’s broad abortion ban

About 700,000 adults between ages 26 and 49 will be eligible as of Jan. 1

West Virginia is issuing the first checks from a fund established up by the settlement of opioid lawsuits

Nebraska’s governor is standing firm on his plans to reject $18 million in federal funding to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out

The FDA approved a new blood donation risk assessment that is the same for every donor regardless of how they identify, making donation more inclusive for LGBTQ donors.

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel talks about some beneficial New Year’s resolutions and how you can actually stick to them in 2024.

About 700,000 adults between ages 26 and 49 will be eligible as of Jan. 1

Mexico's president is trying to end the woes of patients throughout the country, who are often told they need a specific medicine — but the hospital in question doesn't have it

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel shares health advice on the topics that matter most to you.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has broken from his party and vetoed legislation banning all gender-affirming care for minors and transgender athletes’ participation in girls and women’s sports

Ohio’s GOP governor vetoes a ban on gender-affirming care and transgender athletes playing girls sports

There were major breakthroughs in Alzheimer's and sickle cell treatment.

Documents show the risks toxic substances posed in the underground capsules and silos where Air Force nuclear missile crews have worked since the 1960s

A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities

A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities

From the first-ever RSV vaccines to the first drug approved to treat Alzheimer's disease, here are seven of the biggest medical breakthroughs in 2023.