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

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

Experts say the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling overturning Roe v. Wade appears to be sending more teens to their doctors in search of birth control, including long-acting reversible forms like intrauterine devices and implants

Last month, the CDC said it was ending test-to-stay in schools.

The Asian Development Bank says it is devoting at least $14 billion through 2025 to help ease a worsening food crisis in the Asia-Pacific

The Asian Development Bank says it is devoting at least $14 billion through 2025 to help ease a worsening food crisis in the Asia-Pacific

Experts say the ruling appears to be accelerating a trend among teens.

Whether conservative South Carolina changes its abortion laws at all in the wake of this year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision is about to be decided by divided conservatives in the state House

Canada also said travelers will no longer have to wear masks on trains.

Thousands live in states with restrictions or impending ones, study found.

Women seeking abortions across Arizona were forced to find alternatives beyond the state’s borders after a court ruling last week cleared the way for prosecutors to charge doctors and others who help a woman end a pregnancy unless her life is in danger

But experts said testing data is not as robust as it was during the last two school years.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has returned to Mississippi’s capital city to meet with Jackson officials about the city’s troubled water system

The new chief at the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco center has inherited a raft of problems

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses this emergency use authorization request and what Americans can expect regarding COVID this fall.

Since Oregon residents voted in 2020 to decriminalize hard drugs and dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to treatment, few people have requested the services and the state has been slow to channel the funds

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances

Arizona Democrats are vowing to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law first enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in nearly all circumstances

The way President Joe Biden sees it, the overturning of Roe vs

The way President Joe Biden sees it, the overturning of Roe vs

The near-total ban had been blocked in the state for nearly 50 years.