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Rates of SUID per 100,000 live births rose by 10% from 2019 to 2021.

A scientific panel is calling for a public health approach to marijuana that’s a big departure from “Just Say No.” The report was released Thursday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

A National Institutes of Health investigation has found research misconduct by a top neuroscientist

Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, straight to their homes

This is the third year in a row Americans can order free at-home COVID tests.

Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak

Outreach workers in San Francisco visit homeless people living in tents to match them with shelter

West Virginia’s new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was once addicted to prescription painkillers himself

U.S. suicides last year remained at about the highest level in the nation’s history

Old newspaper boxes are being repurposed into containers that distribute Narcan, an emergency treatment to reverse drug overdoses

A judge dismissed a federal lawsuit challenging a suburban New York ban on wearing masks in public except for health and religious reasons

The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution intended to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in criminal contempt for failing to testify before a Senate panel

A 10th person has died in an ongoing outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to a now-closed Boar's Head deli meat plant in Virginia

ABC News' Kyra Phillips speaks with the author of this study and a mother who's been a strong advocate for CTE awareness after losing her son by suicide in 2014.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court determination that a Montana health clinic submitted more than 300 false asbestos claims

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines

Some groups that have been helping women pay for abortions and associated travel are cutting back their aid as travel costs rise

More than a decade after retiring from football, Brett Favre says he has Parkinson’s disease

The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, one of the consequences of the violence that has engul...

The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment last year makes it hard for residents to know the full extent of the contamination they have been exposed to that they...

Hospitals are facing questions about why they denied care to pregnant patients and whether state abortion bans have influenced how they treat those patients

A former New York City official who helped coordinate the city’s response to the pandemic has been fired from his private-sector job

Survivors of child sex abuse at juvenile detention facilities in Illinois are hoping for justice

Senators grilled Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Jørgensen Tuesday over the costs of Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs.

Students in school buildings and residents in nearby homes have been told to evacuate near Cincinnati after a dangerous chemical began leaking from a railcar

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania can sue prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment

Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre told a congressional committee Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

A person has died in New York state from eastern equine encephalitis

An influential group of law enforcement leaders is pushing police departments to change how officers subdue people so they avoid “consistent blind spots” in the use of physical force that contribute to civilian deaths

A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country

More than 100 million American adults have obesity and more than 20 million adults have severe obesity, U.S. figures show.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is prioritizing abortion rights in a key U.S. Senate race in Maryland against Republican Larry Hogan

Obesity is high and holding steady in the U.S. About 4 in 10 Americans have obesity overall and about 1 in 10 have severe obesity

The CDC report found almost 10% of U.S. adults had severe obesity.

A Miami charity is helping children with cancer by sending them denim jackets and tote bags adorned with decorative patches

A recently elected state lawmaker is among those who were arrested outside a Hawaii hospital

A look at the numbers behind the potential brain damage former NFL players continue to live with linked to repeated trauma to the head.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring school districts to restrict student phone use

Some Florida school districts are rolling back a more comprehensive approach to sex education in favor of abstinence-focused lessons

Three Tufts University men’s lacrosse players remain hospitalized with a rare muscle injury participating in a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout earlier this month

Federal law enforcement officials in Connecticut have announced criminal indictments against seven people in a case they're calling one of the largest counterfeit pill busts ever in New England

The patient was from Ulster County, according to the state Department of Health.

Working five days a week has long been the corporate cultural norm

Sudanese health authorities say cholera has killed at least 388 people and sickened about 13,000 others over the past two months

A Lebanese ophthalmologist has been working around the clock trying to keep up with the flood of patients with eye injuries after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded en masse

The U.N. General Assembly has approved a blueprint to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges

Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests delivered to their home free of charge starting later this month

Kate, the Princess of Wales, has made her first public appearance since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties

If you’re trying to lose a bit of weight and want a new way to do it, stair-climbing as a regular exercise — or just adding a few flights a day — might be for you