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Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center are receiving threatening emails following a data breach last month

The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis

The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis

Dr. Darien Sutton provides more information on what's being called a "functional cure" for some patients.

New Mexico’s congressional delegation has expressed outrage with the U.S. House leadership’s move to block compensation for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War

COVID and flu hospitalizations are rising, CDC data shows.

COVID and flu hospitalizations are rising, CDC data shows.

Obstacles to obtaining an abortion are more common since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022

Obstacles to obtaining abortions are more common since overturning Roe v. Wade.

Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to allow homicide charges against women who have abortions

A pregnant woman in Kentucky has filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year

Authorities in New Jersey say two nurses and a medical resident were stabbed inside a pediatric intensive care unit

Sickle cell disease is a genetic condition affecting at least 100,000 Americans.

U.S. regulators have approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel shares health advice on the topics that matter most to you.

House lawmakers are demanding information on federal efforts to stop the influx of kid-appealing electronic cigarettes from China

A large British study finds that less frequent screening is just as good as annual mammograms for certain breast cancer survivors

As of Nov. 25, there were 19,444 weekly COVID hospitalizations, CDC data shows.

The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don't like where things are heading

Transgender teenagers challenging a Utah law banning trans girls from playing on girls’ sports teams can keep portions of their mental health records confidential

A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe has now killed eight people _ three in the U.S. and five in Canada

Black people make up about 38% of Mississippi’s population

Health officials are releasing the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million

Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish

Health official says more supply is coming, but doctors worry it's not enough.

The increase in hospitalizations comes after relatively low numbers throughout the summer.

A Kentucky child is dead and a Missouri infant has brain damage from the same kind of bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year

Ohio's recreational marijuana users are officially in a state of limbo

Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infectious diseases.

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to have an abortion in rare challenge to ban; state likely to appeal

The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in sometimes angry testimony to Britain’s inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, on Thursday defended himself against suggestions that his indifference and failure to heed the advice of scientists led to thousands of u...

Travel is mainly to border states where bans have ceased nearly all abortions.

The killing of a visiting nurse in Connecticut is sparking renewed calls to better protect health care workers from what has been a rise in violence across the country

A Texas judge has given a pregnant woman whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the state’s ban that took effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned last year

The Home Test to Treat program is from the National Institutes of Health.

The Biden administration delays a ban on menthol cigarettes after pressure from civil rights groups who argued it would unfairly target Black smokers.

Civil rights groups fought the ban, saying it would target Black smokers.

The White House is pushing back a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that quickly sparked criticism from anti-smoking groups

Autopsy reports on the carbon monoxide deaths of three North Carolina-based Marines last summer say they were found at a gas station in a car with unconnected and rusted exhaust pipes

U.S. health officials have launched an inspection of a plant in Ecuador that made the cinnamon applesauce pouches linked to dozens of cases of acute lead poisoning in U.S. children

A Republican prosecutor says he plans to appeal a judge's ruling invalidating Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban

Authorities say dengue fever is on the rise in Mali, posing a new threat to the West African nation struggling with extremist attacks and political turbulence

The company will now base drug costs on the amount that it pays for a drug -- limiting the markup and service fee to customers.

The EPA has proposed removing all lead service lines within a decade.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged that his government was too slow to grasp the scale of the COVID-19 crisis

A 23-year-old woman who recently started her first nursing job at a New Hampshire hospital was attending a training session on cardiac arrest when she, herself, suffered the medical emergency

A Wisconsin judge has reaffirmed her ruling this summer that state law permits consensual medical abortions, handing abortion rights advocates a massive victory

A new survey shows 55% of Black patients said they feel like they must be very careful about their appearance to be treated fairly at medical visits

The family of a 46-year-old Florida man has filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against a restaurant chain, claiming its caffeine-filled lemonade drink led to his death