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North Korea says its COVID-19 outbreak began from balloons from the South.

One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are being tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin

California is the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants who are living in the country illegally

A Florida judge says he will temporarily block the state's 15-week abortion ban

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion

Opioid users would be able to legally inject drugs in the supervised settings.

Alabama  is using the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth

U.S. regulators are telling COVID-19 vaccine makers to tweak fall booster shots.

Canada’s chief public health officer is warning of a possible COVID-19 resurgence in the fall and winter

Help is coming for many people struggling with medical debt on credit reports

Help is coming for many people struggling with medical debt on credit reports

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion

Cases have also risen nearly 10% from two weeks ago, data shows.

Judge to temporarily block Florida’s 15-week abortion ban over claims state constitution guarantees right to procedure

President Joe Biden says he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

A Danish Parliament-appointed commission has harshly criticized the country’s government for its decision to cull millions of healthy mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic to protect humans from a mutation of the virus

The Supreme Court has declined to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that doesn't offer an exemption for religious reasons

President Joe Biden says the Supreme Court’s decision ending a constitutional right to abortion is “destabilizing” and he supports changing Senate rules to codify nationwide abortion protections

President Joe Biden says he would support eliminating the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Judge temporarily blocks Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban that was triggered by Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling

An expert says the combination of heat and humidity would have quickly created life-threatening conditions inside the packed, un-airconditioned tractor-trailer where dozens of migrants were found dead this week

Biden backs changing Senate filibuster rules to pass abortion, privacy protections as well as voting legislation

The WHO says the number of coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week.

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says a total abortion ban that has been on the books since before statehood can be enforced, putting him at odds with that state's Republican governor

Shanghai has begun to reopen in-dining facilities as it emerges from lockdown.

A huge Belgian chocolate factory has halted production after detecting salmonella in a batch of chocolates

Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade

The FDA and physician groups say these medications are safe and effective.

The new vaccines will target BA.4 and BA.5, plus the initial COVID-19 strain.

South Korea has approved the country's first domestically made COVID vaccine.

Laws banning most abortions at the point of the “first detectable heartbeat"are beginning to take effect following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says that a pre-statehood law that bans all abortions is enforceable

The U.S. government will purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in anticipation of a fall booster campaign

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion

Medical experts warn that repeated COVID-19 infections are getting more likely as the pandemic drags on and the coronavirus evolves

Michigan authorities have long promised to hold key officials criminally responsible for lead in Flint's water back in 2014 and 2015

The head of the World Health Organization has criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance

More searches occurred in states with the toughest abortion restrictions.

Norway has joined fellow Scandinavian countries in offering a second booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine to some of its population, to be available from July 1 to people aged 75 and over, because of a rise in infections

The European Union’s executive branch has proposed a ban on the sale of flavored heated tobacco products as part of its plan to fight cancer

Scientists caution that planning ahead in this pandemic is challenging.

She raised millions for cancer research.

Research links recessions with a rise in anxiety and depression, experts said.

U.S. health officials are expanding the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus

President Joe Biden’s top health official says that “every option is on the table” when it comes to helping women access abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade

Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration won't use public money to help people from other states travel to California for an abortion

Advisers to the U.S. government are recommending that COVID-19 booster shots used this fall be modified to better match more recent variants of the coronavirus

The Michigan Supreme Court has thrown out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion