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After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better next time but are still struggling to finalize a global plan

Hawaii health officials say testing on west Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires

Sandra Miceli was fined $55,000 by the NY State Department of Health.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says the city will open a new space for people to recover and receive treatment for nearly 24 hours after they have overdosed on fentanyl or other drugs

A bill that would have consolidated six South Carolina heath care agencies and was overwhelmingly passed by both chambers of the General Assembly has died in a procedural move by a member angry he was mocked by his colleagues

Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez was eight months pregnant and prepping for her doctoral dissertation when she went into labor. Our panel reacts to her amazing story!

A judge must decide whether Virginia law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and given a monetary value

A Colorado abortion fund said Thursday it’s helped hundreds access abortion in the first months of 2024, the majority arriving from Texas where abortion is restricted

A new report finds fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more pronounced in states that ban abortion compared with other states

The U.S. government has updated its rules for bringing a dog into the country

A judge says Beach Boys co-founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to handle his personal and medical decisions

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign legislation to criminalize the misuse of a powerful animal tranquilizer called xylazine that is showing up in supplies of illicit drugs and contributing to a growing number of human overdose deaths

Approximately 170 people have been exposed, city officials say.

The independent presidential candidate said doctors found a parasite in his brain that caused a series of mental health issues.

A Texas man is petitioning a court for information over his former partner's alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up a first-of-its-kind legal test to the limits of statewide abortion bans

Steward Health Care says it plans to sell off all its hospitals after announcing this week that it filed for bankruptcy protection

Kenya's public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had left patients in limbo for almost two months

An Iowa facility is closing after federal investigators said it violated patients' rights

New U.S. rules require all dogs coming into the U.S. to be at least 6 months old and microchipped to help prevent the spread of rabies

About 20% of Americans will develop skin cancer during their lifetimes.

Even people who know that looking at their smartphone in bed isn’t good for them do it anyway

The prime minister of Thailand says he wants to outlaw the cannabis over concerns the lack of regulation had made it available to children and increased crimes

The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled

President Joe Biden is pushing proposals to help families pay for child care, preschool and elder care while he's running for reelection this year

Advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana in South Dakota have submitted petitions to get the issue once again on the November ballot

Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban

Two women who faced medical emergencies because of abortion restrictions in their states are campaigning for President Joe Biden in Michigan

A federal judge says abortion rights advocates can proceed with lawsuits against Alabama’s attorney general over his threats to prosecute people who help women travel to another state to terminate pregnancies

Nine people are suspected to have died in connection with the overdoses.

An Ohio doctor who drew national attention when she told state legislators that COVID-19 vaccines made people magnetic has had her medical license reinstated

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution barring discrimination based on “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” cannot appear on the state ballot in November because legislators made a procedural error during an initial round of approval

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression without consulting her

A knife attack at a hospital in southwestern China has killed two people and injured 21 others

A Georgia State Supreme Court candidate has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a state agency is unconstitutionally trying to block him from talking about abortion

Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases of rape and incest from Louisiana's near-total abortion ban

New York is suing an anti-abortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for allegedly promoting an unproven method to reverse medication abortions

The go-broke dates for benefit programs Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report

Home health care provider Elara Caring is being sued by the husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist

A Virginia judge has signed off on a prosecutor’s request to withdraw charges against five more people in connection with the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno

A Missouri panel found that fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases

The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas

Yogurt sold in U.S. grocery store may soon have new labels that say the popular food might help reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes

King Charles III's coronation anniversary has been marked in London under soggy skies with ceremonial gunfire

For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer's disease

Hospital operator Steward Health Care has filed for bankruptcy protection, but pledged to maintain the eight hospitals it operates in Massachusetts

Minnesota lawmakers have launched their debate on far-reaching legislation that would amend the state's constitution to protect abortion and LGBTQ rights

Since Florida enacted a six-week abortion ban, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states have sprung into action

San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is notorious for its open-air drug use and congested sidewalks

King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey

A makeshift national network of abortion doulas, navigators at clinics and individual volunteers are helping people who live in restrictive states and need or want an abortion