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More than half of rural U.S. hospitals now lack labor and delivery units.

There’s a lot to be said for the work/play energy of a nice studio or other small apartment during the day

The EU general court says the European Commission did not allow the public enough access to information about COVID-19 vaccine purchase agreements it secured with pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic

The European Commission did not give the public enough information about COVID-19 vaccine deals, EU court says

At a clinic in the working class neighborhood, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City, Doctor Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian migrants

Israel’s 9-month-old war with Hamas in Gaza has decimated the territory’s medical system

In an excerpt of a recent conversation between former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F

Studies have shown that extreme heat can exacerbate anxiety and depression.

Arkansas is being sued for rejecting petitions in favor of a proposed ballot measure to scale back the state’s abortion ban

Supporters of a proposal to scale back Arkansas abortion ban sue state for rejecting ballot measure petitions

"I believed the lies that I was lazy, dumb, unmotivated," a woman told ABC News.

A federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration complied with the law when it declined to grant an extension to Georgia’s year-old Medicaid plan, which is the only one in the country that has a work requirement for recipients of the publicly fu...

A Detroit-area county has agreed to pay $7 million to the family of a man who was severely beaten by another man while in jail for drunken driving

AP gardening writer Jessica Damiano has been growing dwarf blueberries for three years and her plants outside New York City are covered in green fruits right now

The mother of a Baltimore man who died in police custody after being sedated by medics wants to know whether the actions of first responders caused his death

The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86

A judge's ruling keeps an abortion-rights question on the South Dakota ballot in November

Three hikers have died in suspected heat-related cases at state and national parks in Utah

Health workers in Ivory Coast have begun giving children the latest malaria vaccine

Psychiatrist and trauma specialist Dr. Frank Anderson discusses how watching traumatic events, in person or on video, can have lasting effects.

Celebrities and influencers are helping promote high-tech medical scans that companies claim can help catch deadly diseases, including cancer

Coverage for the DTP and measles vaccines stagnated from 2022 to 2023.

Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia have rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting

Four poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu

By now, Georgia officials expected their new Medicaid plan to provide health insurance to 25,000 low income residents

Fitness guru Richard Simmons has died

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died

In a clash over the past versus the future, some descendants of enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, are fighting to keep a grain terminal from being built in their historic Black neighborhood

Mental health experts, community clinics and politicians are working to create new programs to break down barriers that Latinos might face to getting therapy or treatment

Abortion access ballot measures are the center of a new wave of legal and procedural questions across the U.S. In Arizona, there's a dispute over language to describe a measure that could go before voters in November

This summer’s extreme heat is raising the danger of heat-related illnesses and threatening health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications

More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched

ABC News’ Lori Bergamotto brings some of her favorite summer products that make cooling down in the summer sweeter.

Board-certified psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Judith Joseph discusses what people looking for ADHD medication can do to help mitigate their symptoms.

Quinault Indian Nation, in Washington state, has spent at least a decade working to relocate hundreds of people whose homes are threatened by a rising Pacific Ocean

According to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, relatively few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman

ABC News' Diane Macedo speaks with other women and doctors about rising numbers of women being diagnosed with ADHD as adults, and details her own recent diagnosis.

ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with NYU professor of developmental psychology Dr. Niobe Way about "Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture."

Officials with health care companies in Oregon say more than 2,400 patients at hospitals in the Portland area may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, and HIV, because of a physician who may not have followed infection co...

Backers of an Arizona abortion rights ballot initiative have sued a GOP-led legislative committee that seeks to include language on material for voters referring to a fetus as “an unborn human being.”

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on state ballots this November

Top court lets New Yorkers vote on constitutional amendment barring discrimination over gender or 'pregnancy outcomes'

Some experts say the U.S. should vaccinate farmworkers against bird flu.

ABC News’ Faith Abubéy takes a closer look at new initiatives expanding access to midwifery care, which experts believe can help reduce America's alarming rate of maternal mortality.

A lawsuit has been filed in the case of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media

Lawsuit filed in case of Massachusetts teenager who died after taking part in spicy chip challenge

Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in four months has had severe consequences, paralyzing the operations of the country’s largest children’s hospital and severely affecting the young patients already battling life-threatening diseases

Dozens of salmonella illnesses have been linked to raw milk from a California farm

Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague

Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come