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More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages

Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines

People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday

Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts toward making the country polio-free

Rwanda’s health minister said Sunday that an outbreak of the Marburg virus is not spreading in the country, citing the absence of new infections or deaths in the past six days

Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot this November because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company

Hundreds of frozen waffle products sold in leading retailers including Walmart and Target are being recalled

Dr. Patel delivers the health roundup, discussing COVID's impact on cancer and diabetes and also severe obesity in kids and teens.

Brain injuries are a growing problem for the U.S. military

"We’ve been unable to shower or wash hands,” one resident said.

A judge has ordered Florida's surgeon general from making further threats against TV stations over an abortion-rights ad they've been running

April Kerner was diagnosed with ALS in 2022 and soon lost her voice completely. Now, using an AI tool that sounds like her original voice, she can communicate again.

A three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee cannot discipline doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues

Outdoor conditioning while a heat advisory was in effect during the humid summer left 15-year-old football player Ovet Gomez Regalado pale and asking for water

Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year

CDC reports teen smoking and other tobacco use dropped to lowest level in 25 years

U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year

Robert Luna, a retired Coast Guard chief petty officer trekked across the U.S. to help raise awareness for veteran mental health issues.

An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness

The decline in tobacco product use is largely driven by the drop in e-cigarette use, according to new federal data published Thursday.

The decline is largely driven by the drop in e-cigarette use, the report said.

April Kerner uses an AI tool that sounds similar to her original voice.

Africa's top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits

Adult day centers are the most racially diverse long-term care setting in the U.S. They also serve the least amount of people of all long-term care settings, in part because of the cost and limited insurance coverage options

It takes water to flush a toilet yet tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago

Donald Trump has been shifting his stances on abortion and reproductive rights

The large study analyzed the health records of 1.3 million people.

Voters in nine states are deciding next month whether to add the right to abortion to their constitutions

ABC News’ Diane Macedo explores how people with ADHD are having trouble finding care, including booking doctor’s appointments, getting a diagnosis and finding medication in short supply.

New Mexico’s governor is ending an emergency public health order that suspended the right to carry guns at public parks and playgrounds in the state's largest metro area

A Mississippi judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a potential conflict between a 2022 state law that bans most abortions and a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling that said abortion is guaranteed in the Mississippi Constitution

After losing her voice, April Kerner turned to ElevenLabs, an AI audio research and deployment company that focuses on creating human-like text-to-speech programs.

A new study found people with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus

Three states are asking a judge to let them try a new approach with a lawsuit to force the federal government to reduce access to the abortion pill mifepristone

A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria bacteria has expanded to nearly 12 million pounds

A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-rights measure is suing state officials over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad

Serena Williams says she had a benign branchial cyst “the size of a small grapefruit” removed from her neck and “all is OK.”

A new bill aiming to legalize assisted dying in Britain was introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time in nearly a decade that lawmakers will debate allowing doctors to help end people’s lives after previous court challenges to chang...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California are getting a pay bump under a state law

Canada has arguably the world’s most permissive system of euthanasia

Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis

A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, grieving widows

A campaign to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution has raised close to $22 million

The White House released Harris' medical history over the weekend.

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Dozens of people have rallied outside the Michigan headquarters of WK Kellogg Co. to demand that the company remove artificial dyes from their cereals in the U.S. The maker of Froot Loops and Apple Jacks announced nearly a decade ago that it would remo...

At least eight people have died in a town on Puerto Rico’s north coast in recent days after authorities say around two dozen suffered from suspected overdoses linked to drugs likely contaminated with fentanyl

A judge has approved a $13 million settlement in a lawsuit over an unannounced active shooter drill at a Michigan psychiatric hospital for children