Health News

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health

Australia’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years from social media

Millions of obese Americans would get access to popular weekly injectables that would help them shed pounds quickly if a $35 billion proposal from the Biden administration is blessed by President-elect Donald Trump

Nebraska has moved closer to allowing medical marijuana

Kentucky’s attorney general has expanded an opioid-related lawsuit to target another pharmacy benefit manager

The detection of bird flu virus this week in a batch of unpasteurized milk sold in California underscores what health experts say are the known and potential risks of the products

Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Maine say they have entered into a settlement that requires the state to increase community-based behavioral health services for children

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses how much of a gamechanger this new rule would be if it went into effect.

Lebanese families with children diagnosed with cancer are now grappling with the hardships of both illness and war

People with HIV who need a kidney or liver transplant will be able to receive an organ from a donor with HIV

Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning

Biden seeks Medicare and Medicaid coverage of popular but costly weight-loss drugs for millions of Americans

A shortage in injections linked to weight loss opened the market not only to compounding pharmacies but also some questionable online businesses. How do you know if you're getting what's advertised?

Top officials in Arizona have certified the state’s election results

A Missouri court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans some gender-affirming health care for minors, a victory for supporters of the ban as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on the issue next week

The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency is urging the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats

State health officials say the bird flu virus was detected in a retail sample of raw milk from a dairy in Fresno, California

There’s no place like home for the holidays

A federal appeals court says medical marijuana businesses in Mississippi don’t have the right to advertise on billboards or other places because marijuana itself remains illegal under federal law

A rural doctor travels miles of unforgiving terrain by donkey, enduring cold, rain, wind and exhaustion, to visit several dozen families scattered across the highest mountain in the north of Argentina. Dr. Jorge Fusaro has organized medical tours three times a year for the past four years across Cerro Chañi in Jujuy. Chañi is considered a sacred mountain by the indigenous Kolla people who live there. It has extreme temperatures, year-round snowy peaks, and is home to animals full of symbolism, like the puma and condor. Fusaro is not only the only doctor many people see, sometimes he's the only outsider. Doctors may be the only representatives of the state to reach this mountainous region. There are no schools, police, or postal services. Fusaro not only treats residents and leaves enough medicine for their first-aid kits, he also helps them with bureaucratic paperwork, serves as a mail carrier for delivering important documents to relatives in the city, and organizes training...

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses the recent food recalls linked to outbreaks of E. coli and listeria.

The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a federal requirement that cigarette packages and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking

Food safety experts say safely serving a holiday feast takes planning and know-how

As of Friday, 11 people have been infected with listeria in the outbreak tied to Yu Shang Food ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, according to the CDC.

Dr. Nick Yoder from Harmony Academy at National University joins ABC News Live with tips on how to practice gratitude every day.

Donald Trump's health team picks include a retired congressman, a surgeon and a former talk-show host

The Turkish doctor at the center of an alleged fraud scheme that led to the deaths of 10 babies says he was a “trusted” physician

There have been 55 cases of bird flu among humans confirmed in the U.S. so far.

Travel, especially during the holiday season, can be stressful

Extreme weather is making power outages longer and more frequent across the U.S. People with health conditions who depend on medical devices powered by electricity are particularly vulnerable

Eleven people have been infected in the outbreak, the CDC said.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a critic of COVID-19 health measures to lead the Food and Drug Administration

U.S. health officials said a California infant has died and at least 10 other people have been sickened in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that include chicken feet, duck neck and pork hock, feet an...

Most people taking popular drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight have shed significant pounds

Health officials are confirming bird flu in a California child — the first reported case in a U.S. minor

One of the most prominent figures from Canada’s trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 has been found guilty on five counts including mischief and disobeying a court order

The byproduct has been in tap water for decades, but was hard to isolate.

U.S. health officials say at least 19 people in Minnesota have been sickened by E

Disabled rideshare users have for years reported having less access to Lyft and Uber than able-bodied people

Scientists have been observing the chemical compound, chloronitramide, for decades.

Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family statement sent to Australian media

Pragnya Mohan has been a professional triathlete for nearly a decade, but summers in her native India are now so hot that she can’t train there anymore

Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip are often eating just once a day, even in areas where aid groups have relatively more access than the isolated and heavily destroyed north

Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin, the compound found in psychedelic mushrooms

A Georgia official disbanded the state's maternal mortality committee that investigates deaths of pregnant women

Doctors say RSV trends are returning to those seen pre-pandemic.

Doctors say RSV trends are returning to pre-pandemic levels.

With their push to end smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos going nowhere fast in either the courts or the state Legislature, casino workers have demonstrated outside a hotel where New Jersey’s governor was due to speak

U.S. health officials say a deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to a massive recall of popular Boar's Head deli meats is over