Health News

A Minnesota utility has begun shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis after discovering water containing a low-level of radioactive material was leaking from a pipe for the second time

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water

Nursing home residents and hospital patients are particularly at high risk.

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel answers viewers' questions about coffee, multivitamins and CBD gummies.

Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed a sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths

Kentucky’s Democratic governor vetoes sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths

Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public

The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it

In reversal for Biden, US appeals court rules against COVID-19 vaccination requirement for federal employees

Arizona had the highest death rates while Hawaii had the lowest.

Four families have filed a federal lawsuit against Florida health officials

Minnesota is moving to strengthen the state’s protections for children and their families who come for gender-affirming care by making itself a “trans refuge state,” bucking a national backlash against transgender rights

In a victory for abortion-rights supporters, the Republican-led but closely divided New Hampshire House has rejected multiple bills to further restrict abortion access while also approving legislation to protect it

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a ban on most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18

Missouri minors no longer could receive gender-affirming treatments under a state Senate-approved bill

The eye drops were contaminated with an antibiotic-resistant form of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an aggressive bacterium, according to the CDC.

A rural hospital in Idaho will stop delivering babies and providing other obstetrical care, citing recently passed laws in which physicians could be prosecuted for providing abortions, among other reasons

Lawmakers in states including Colorado, California, Texas and New York are taking big, legislative swings at the eating disorder crisis

For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released the new estimates of how common autism is

Authorities say a woman accused of setting fire last year to a Wyoming abortion clinic that was under construction told investigators that she opposes abortion and was experiencing anxiety and nightmares over the facility opening

Feds: Woman who set fire at Wyoming abortion clinic opposes abortion, said she was anxious about facility opening

The office of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says he's expected to return to the chamber soon after seeking inpatient treatment for clinical depression

The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature has given final approval to a Medicaid expansion agreement

North Carolina lawmakers give final OK to Medicaid expansion agreement, reversing longstanding Republican opposition

As spring sports get underway at East Palestine High School in Ohio, organizers are trying to create normalcy for student-athletes while cleanup from the February train derailment and toxic chemical burn continues just over a mile away

Knowing how the pandemic emerged is vital to preventing another, experts say.

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the “highly virulent” Marburg virus, a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no authorized vaccine or treatment

COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha is also likely to leave, admin official said.

Bonner General Health in Sandpoint, Idaho, said it is ending its labor & delivery services by mid-May due to the "legal and political climate" in the state.

Authorities say a suspect has been arrested on charges that she set fire to a building that was slated to become Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic

New research finds that drinking caffeinated coffee did not significantly affect one kind of heart rhythm that results in extra beats

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price

The Biden administration plans to break up the network that runs the nation's organ transplant system

The hospital said it will stop providing care by mid-May.

The U.S. abortion landscape is far from settled nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to terminate a pregnancy

An agreement to expand Medicaid in North Carolina has reached the cusp of final legislative approval following a state House vote

The governor of Massachusetts is reminding pharmacies that they are required to stock a key abortion pill, despite a nationwide effort by anti-abortion activists to ban the medication

U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of blindness linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel breaks down why the Mediterranean diet is beneficial and why people in the Mediterranean live longer, healthier lives.

Four people have reportedly had to have their eyeballs surgically removed.

More than 119,000 people have been injured by tear gas and other chemical irritants around the world since 2015 and some 2,000 suffered injuries from “less lethal” impact projectiles

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted “hand on heart” that he did not lie to lawmakers about government parties during the COVID-19 pandemic

A judge has temporarily blocked Wyoming’s new abortion ban

A Kansas proposal based on the claim that providers leave infants to die when they're born during abortions is nearing legislative approval

Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s new ban on abortion pills from taking effect

A recent report from the CDC found cases of C. auris, a potentially deadly fungus, have been increasing in the U.S.

Missouri’s attorney general says he will issue an emergency regulation that at least temporarily puts strict limits on transgender medical treatment for youth

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a portion of the state’s ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to an abortion not just in a medical emergency

Tanzania’s health ministry has confirmed that five people have died and three others are being treated for the Ebola-like Marburg disease