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New Zealand’s new prime minister plans to ban cellphone use in schools and repeal tobacco controls in the agenda for his first three months in office

An estimated 49,449 people died by suicide in 2022, the CDC said.

Life expectancy rose from 76.4 in 2021 to 77.5 in 2022, the report found.

Researchers examined cannabis use among heroin users over a 20-year period.

Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology for what was described as one of the darkest chapters in Australia’s medical history

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic

The Texas Supreme Court is deciding whether the state's abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications

The Mayo Clinic has announced a $5 billion expansion plan that includes new buildings designed so they can evolve and expand as patient needs change over the coming decades

A customer has filed a lawsuit against the fast casual chain Chopt over a salad that she says contained a piece of the manager’s finger

A British government-ordered inquiry says it found serious failings at hospitals where an electrician who was later convicted of murder was able to have sex with more than 100 corpses over 15 years without being detected

A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain with operations in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals

France's government plans to ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas

ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports on the mistreatment some women are experiencing in hospital maternity care wards and the advocates speaking out in search of solutions.

Former President Donald Trump says he wants to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act

The National Health Commission and the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention say they are monitoring illnesses and encouraging vaccinations to prevent spread.

China says the increase is due to common illnesses, including RSV and flu.

Britain’s government has reached a deal with senior doctors in England that could potentially end a series of strikes

The last trial in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in suburban Denver is expected to delve into largely uncharted legal territory

A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its stringent “zero-COVID” controls, a retired architect is on the road displaying portraits of life under the policy

China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus

A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems

The number of people sickened by salmonella from cut and whole cantaloupes has more than doubled in a week

The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak

In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to...

Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them

Authorities in several West African countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks

Rome prosecutors have asked a judge to archive an investigation into Italian and U.N. health officials over Italy’s 2020 COVID-19 response

The legality of an agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids is going before the Supreme Court

WHO asks China for more information about illnesses and pneumonia clusters.

Thousands of kids a year are hospitalized with RSV.

Adolescents under age 15 made up the lowest percentage of abortions.

A judge has struck down an effort to enshrine reproductive rights, including abortion, in Nevada’s constitution

Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is one of the most common types of respiratory viruses that circulate this time of year.

U.S. health officials are reporting more cases of children sickened by fruit puree pouches that were recalled due to lead contamination

ABC News' Diane Macedo talks with Dr. Alok Patel about recommended tips and tricks for staying healthy for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Kenyan authorities have issued a warning about the sale of counterfeit HIV prevention drugs in the country, saying their “safety, quality and efficacy cannot be assured.”

President Joe Biden declared an emergency over lead-in-water contamination in the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this week after tests on St. Croix revealed levels more than 100 times the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency – among the worst...

Poland’s new parliament has begun debating the reinstatement of government funding for in vitro fertilization

Cases of COVID, flu and RSV are increasing across the U.S.

Former Saints tight end Boo Williams needs surgery, medicine and doctors to make the pain in his injured neck subside

The man who fatally shot five coworkers in April at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, wrote in his journal that he wasn’t sure if his mental health struggles would preclude him from purchasing a gun

Physicians and the former, sole abortion provider in North Dakota are asking a state district court judge to block enforcement of part of a revised law that bans most abortions

Experts continue to stress that current vaccination is one of the most important factors in reducing the spread of respiratory disease.

Four out of five people in Mexico who got influenza shots so far this year turned down the government's recommendation they get Russian or Cuban COVID-19 boosters at the same time

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills known as the Reproductive Health Act

The Missouri Supreme Court has turned away an appeal about how to word a ballot question on access to abortion

Premature infants are at increased risk of serious illness and death.

Dr. Alok Patel breaks down how what people taking some popular medications used for weight loss should know before the holiday.

The U.K.'s chief medical adviser has told a public inquiry that Britain’s government was too late in taking action against the coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020

Fine water is a growing category worldwide, even in water-stressed countries like India, where one company imports natural spring water that's bottled in sleek glass bottles in Bhutan