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A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed the number of storm fatalities to at least 23

Donald Trump’s campaign released an update on the former president’s health Saturday, one week after he survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania

An outbreak of listeria has U.S. health officials advising people who are pregnant, elderly or have compromised immune systems to avoid eating sliced deli meat

Using GPS devices, the group tracks homeless patients and provides care.

Cases have been reported in at least 12 states, the CDC said.

At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters

US health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to deli meat has killed two people and sickened more than two dozen

No, you don't really have to wait 30 minutes after eating to go swimming

U.S. health officials have announced two more bird flu cases among farmworkers

A global technology outage has curtailed treatment at hospitals across the country

Speakers focused on inflation, crime and immigration at the convention.

Months beforehand, some Pennsylvania lawmakers had proposed to outlaw the type of rifle that was used in the assassination attempt against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Some hospitals opted to cancel elective and non-emergency surgeries.

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota is appealing a judge's dismissal of its lawsuit to remove an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot

One of the last remaining birthing units in southern Alabama is slated to close to qualify for federal funding that will save the hospital’s emergency services

Kansas isn’t enforcing a new law requiring abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders discusses her willingness to serve in second Trump administration.

President Joe Biden did not wear a face mask in public a couple of times after the White House announced he had tested positive for COVID-19

Federal health officials have authorized sales of Vuse Alto, the best-selling e-cigarette in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration made the decision Thursday, allowing Reynolds American to keep its reusable e-cigarette on the market for years to come

US regulators OK best-selling e-cigarette Vuse Alto, but only in tobacco flavor

A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana

An inquiry into the U.K. government's response to COVID-19 found it was ill-prepared for a pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health, with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war

Birth defects were not linked to COVID infection in the first trimester either.

The EPA's internal watchdog will investigate why the agency didn’t get its specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors into the air over East Palestine until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment last year

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