Democratic lawmakers who wield control of the Virginia Legislature are hoping to make good on promises made on the campaign trail, including becoming the first Southern state to expand constitutional protections for abortion access.

The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities.

Canadian health officials have confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen.

At least 104 people have been sickened, with 34 hospitalized, in an outbreak of E.

According to Dr. Masih Ahmed from Baylor College of Medicine, living in the sunny south puts us at risk of cataracts too.

Doctors say requests for permanent sterilizations and long-term birth control like IUDs have surged across the nation since Donald Trump was elected president last week.

New government data shows that U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to be showing a sustained decline.

Health experts say walking is an easy way to improve physical and mental health, bolster fitness and prevent disease.

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

Food and beverage manufacturer Kraft Heinz says it's no longer serving the Lunchables meals it created for U.S. schools.

Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion ban told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own health in danger.

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky.

The Justice Department is suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys.

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data.

On average, men live 5 years less than women and more than 12% of men over 18 are in fair or poor health, according to Movember US. Men are also 24% less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year.

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.

Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month.

After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban.

The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.

Anti-abortion advocates say they will quickly dismantle some of President Joe Biden's abortion policies once President-elect Donald Trump makes his return to the White House next year.

The facility looks less like a hospital room with beautiful colors and the comforts of home. Patients attest to how children can thrive in a familiar, less clinical setting.

An expensive campaign by abortion-rights advocates for state Supreme Court seats has yielded mixed results.

A former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu.

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to spread.

Abortion rights advocates prevailed in ballot measures in seven states, but that doesn't resolve the issue.

Innovative Lasers of Houston celebrated the opening of their newest location in the Woodlands! With their services extending to The Woodlands, Conroe, New Caney, Cleveland, Spring, and other nearby regions, it has never been a better time to try laser technology as part of your weight loss plan. The Innovative Lasers of Houston team says they are driven to help their clients transform their lives. Using a combination of laser technology that co-founder Laura Alexis describes as something akin to a fat-melting machine, along with nutrition planning and accountability, clients say they are getting results.

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa.

Traditional liver tumor treatments include surgery, chemo, and radiation. Now, doctors have a new tool in their toolbox to fight it, with a non-invasive procedure.

A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and injected his mother’s boyfriend with poison presented as a COVID-19 vaccine has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.

RSV and norovirus cases are surging among children in Houston, with symptoms like coughing, sore throats, and congestion.

Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration.

Donald Trump is refusing to say how he voted on Florida’s abortion measure and he's getting testy about it.

Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament.

Abortion rights advocates lost on Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota ballot measures but prevailed in seven other states, including Missouri, where an amendment clears the way to undo one of the nation's strictest bans.

The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks.

Thousands of women have rallied in the U.S. capital and elsewhere with abortion rights at the forefront of their demonstrations.

Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.”.

The debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year.

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday.

A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan, killing nine people including five nearby children.

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday.

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday.

Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others.

Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for one year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research.

It’s no surprise that workers feel burned-out.

Americans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025.

The European Commission has fined Israeli generic drugmaker Teva more than 460 million euros ($500 million) for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company’s development of a competing medicine.

A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales.

New research shows Generation Z is on track to become the most sober generation, with young adults increasingly choosing to abstain from alcohol.

Federal officials are reporting more cases of E.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

People prone to seasonal depression are bracing themselves as winter approaches.

A 15-year-old Colorado girl is hospitalized with severe complications of E.

The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year.

A federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida’s health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights measure on next week’s ballot.

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, triggering a shootout that left two police officers dead.

At NexGenEsis in Houston, Texas, doctors help their patients find relief from pain by turning on the body's healing power using regenerative medicine. For Dorian Castro, this meant he was able to take his life back

Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.

Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them.

Pakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases that has hampered years of efforts to stop the disease in one of the two countries where it has never been eradicated.

McDonald’s says they believe slivered onions supplied from a California-based produce company have been isolated as the likely cause of the E. Coli outbreak tied to the company’s Quarter Pounders.

McDonald's says testing has ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E.

It's time to move clocks back on Sunday.

Experts say the scariest things on Halloween aren’t monsters or ghosts — it's traffic.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas announced it has made the decision to remove MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston from its Medicare Advantage PPO, Blue Cross Medicare Advantage HMO, and Medicaid networks effective Nov. 1, 2024.

Dual-eligible individuals -- those who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid -- often face complex health needs and barriers to accessing care.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states.

Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday.

One year ago, a gunman killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston.

A judge has permanently blocked enforcement of Ohio's ban on virtually all abortions.

A California-based produce company is the source of fresh onions linked to a deadly E.

Health officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri infection.

Deadly food poisoning outbreaks tied to McDonald's and Boar's Head may have left Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply.

An appeals court in London has rejected British killer nurse Lucy Letby’s bid to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in her care.

The Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tensions over abortion have only intensified, setting the presidential election up as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.

TikTok videos of women turned away from emergency rooms because of state abortion bans haunt one young female voter in North Carolina.

U.S. health officials are recommending that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses.

Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed a University of Pennsylvania researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black.

The Environmental Protection Agency didn't ensure that states submitted accurate estimates of the number of lead pipes they had.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was caused by a common type of E.

McDonald’s is working to reassure U.S. customers that its restaurants are safe even as federal investigators try to pinpoint the cause of a deadly E.

A striking new Kamala Harris campaign ad campaign that seeks to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe tells the story of a Texas woman named Ondrea who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn’t get medical care after she miscarried, and now may no longer be able to have children.

Britain’s drug regulator approved the Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla on Wednesday, but the government won’t be paying for it after an independent watchdog agency said the treatment isn’t worth the cost to taxpayers.

Federal officials say E.

A recreational drug called “pink cocaine” is getting attention and causing confusion since it doesn't typically contain cocaine.

A judge has appointed a mediator to try to negotiate an end to a long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.

A recall of hundreds of frozen waffles and other toaster foods has been expanded.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to head to reliably Republican Texas just 10 days before Election Day to try to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive care.

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae.

A new report finds that women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is focusing his official office on fighting an abortion rights amendment.

More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages.

Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines.

People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a surge in new polio cases ahead of a new nationwide campaign, hampering years-long efforts aimed at making the country a polio-free state.