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UnitedHealth Group says it has completed its acquisition of Change Healthcare, closing the roughly $8 billion deal a couple weeks after a judge rejected a challenge from regulators

Humanitarian workers say hunger is now soaring in eastern Congo after months of fighting between M23 rebels and the army

A new regulation coming into force in Poland that requires pregnancy information to be uploaded to the national digital system has women's organizations concerned that it will be another way for the conservative government to control women's lives

The U.S. government will soon spend $25 million to help patients access experimental drugs for the incurable illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease

An Arizona judge has refused to suspend her order that allowed enforcement of a pre-statehood law making it a crime to provide an abortion

In a remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the score of challenges authorities face

Women are gathering across Michigan to strategize how to preserve abortion rights in their state

Women are gathering across Michigan to strategize how to preserve abortion rights in their state

Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon

A University of Idaho memo warning staffers not to refer students to abortion or birth control providers has placed the school at the center of a debate over First Amendment rights and access to reproductive health care

Experts warn this kind of 'mass disabling event' is affecting the economy.

Hanna-Kay Williams went into labor late Tuesday night.

A Michigan homeowner has been charged with shooting and wounding an 84-year-old woman who was canvassing door-to-door against a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion in the state

Vermont dispensaries are set to begin selling marijuana for recreational use, though only three will be ready to do so on opening weekend

Vermont dispensaries are set to begin selling marijuana for recreational use, though only three will be ready to do so on opening weekend

U.S. regulators have revealed their plan to allow foreign baby formula manufactures to stay on the market long term

ABC News’ Mary Bruce spoke with author and meditation expert Bob Roth about the updated version of his worldwide bestseller “Strength in Stillness” on the benefits of meditation.

The viral disease is spread by insects like mosquitoes and ticks.

Germany’s health minister warned Friday that the country is seeing a steady rise in COVID-19 cases as it goes into the fall and urged older people to get a second booster shot tweaked to protect against new variants

Far fewer Chinese are expected to be traveling during the upcoming “Golden Week” National Day holiday, amid rigid anti-COVID-19 restrictions and calls from health officials for people to stay put

There were more than 47,000 suicides recorded in 2021.

U.S. health officials have approved a much-debated drug to treat the deadly illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease

About 45 nursing homes, serving 3,500 people, have been evacuated.

U.S. health officials have approved a much-debated drug to treat the deadly illness known as Lou Gehrig's disease

Oregon is set to become the first state in the nation to cover certain climate change expenses under its Medicaid program

Hurricane Ian has swamped a four-story Florida hospital.

India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies

In several metro areas, at least half of hospitals were at risk of flooding.

Taiwan says it will end mandatory COVID-19 quarantines for people arriving from overseas beginning Oct. 13

Shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer’s disease have soared after Japan’s Eisai Co. said its potential treatment appeared to slow the fatal disease in a late-stage study

The University of Oklahoma Medical Center says it is ceasing some gender-affirming treatments after state lawmakers threatened to withhold millions of dollars in federal funding

U.S. public health officials say at-risk people who have received just one dose of the monkeypox vaccine have appeared to be significantly less likely to get sick from the virus

U.S. public health officials say at-risk people who have received just one dose of the monkeypox vaccine have appeared to be significantly less likely to get sick from the virus

President Joe Biden says his administration's goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by the end of the decade is ambitious but doable, if only the nation would work together

The CDC has released the first U.S. data on the vaccine's effectiveness.

"We recognized two years ago, this is a problem," one expert said.

A federal judge has barred Indiana from enforcing a 2016 law’s provisions that require abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains, finding that they violate the U.S. Constitution

For the first time in a decade, Americans will pay less next year on monthly premiums for Medicare’s Part B plan, which covers routine doctors’ visits and other outpatient care

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed more than a dozen laws aiming to make California an abortion sanctuary state

Abortion laws in South Carolina almost certainly won’t get more restrictive after Republicans in the General Assembly couldn’t agree on a total ban

A judge has extended a temporary block on Ohio's law banning virtually all abortions for an additional 14 days, until Oct. 12

Idaho universities are warning staffers not to refer students to abortion providers or emergency contraception because they could face criminal charges under a state law

South Carolina House rejects bill that would have made the state’s six-week ban on abortion more restrictive

The Biden administration has an ambitious goal for America: ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030

The seven-day average has declined by 50% in one month.

The mother of a woman with cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities is suing the Philadelphia care home where her daughter lived for 40 years

Cases appear to have peaked in mid-August and have been gradually declining according to CDC data

Biogen has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law by paying kickbacks to doctors in the form of speakers and consulting fees to persuade them to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs

A federally funded study has found a possible link between aluminum in some childhood vaccines and persistent asthma, but experts say the study has several shortcomings

Thailand will allow abortions up to the 20th week of pregnancy under new regulations issued by the Public Health Ministry