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A judge has dismissed charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires’ disease

A Michigan judge has dismissed felony charges against seven people charged in the Flint water crisis

An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama wants a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor's damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions

Judge throws out charges against 7 people in Flint water crisis, following Michigan Supreme Court decision

Wisconsin Democrats up for election in five weeks are putting abortion in the spotlight, with the Republican-controlled Legislature swiftly rejecting Gov. Tony Evers' call to create a way for voters to get a chance to repeal the state’s 1849 abortion ban

A retired judge has opened a public inquiry into how Britain handled the coronavirus pandemic

A Phoenix abortion clinic has developed a way for patients who can end their pregnancy using a pill to get the medication quickly without running afoul of a resurrected Arizona law that bans most abortions

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

A state board has rejected claims for $1 million payments for 52 prison inmates who were given six times the proper dose of COVID-19 vaccines last year

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the first payments from a $518 million settlement with the nation’s three largest opioid distributors will begin reaching the state in December

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