Eating carrots can be a simple way to get a boost of beneficial nutrients, according to nutritionists
July 08, 2024
Pfizer's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for pregnant women was not tied to a higher risk of pre-term or early births, according to a study published on
July 08, 2024
Gambian lawmakers adopted recommendations on Monday for the country to maintain its ban on female genital mutilation ahead of a vote later this month on whether to decriminalise the
July 08, 2024
Masimo said on Monday a potential joint venture partner is prepared to offer $850 million to $950 million for its consumer business, which includes health and audio
July 08, 2024
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies
July 08, 2024
Moments after a Russian missile smashed into a Kyiv hospital where her infant son was being treated, Svitlana Kravchenko rushed to cover the two-month-old with a cloth in
July 08, 2024
Knowing which kind of provider to see and how to access help can be half the battle.
July 08, 2024
Breathing wildfire smoke can cut years off people’s lives. As fires become more frequent in a warming world, smoke is leading to a public health crisis, harming people far from the flames.
July 08, 2024
Two years after marijuana was decriminalized in Thailand, nearly a hundred of its advocates marched to the prime minister’s office to protest a possible ban on general use
July 08, 2024
Early signs of dementia can show in your finances
July 08, 2024
Eli Lilly agreed to buy Morphic Holding for $3.2 billion in cash, the companies said on Monday, beefing up its portfolio of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) drugs and
July 08, 2024
Similac baby formula maker Abbott is expected to face a trial on Monday over claims that its formula for preterm infants used in neonatal intensive care units causes a
July 08, 2024
South Korea said on Monday it would drop a plan to suspend the licenses of striking trainee doctors, offering a concession to end a months-long walkout prompted by the
July 08, 2024
Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine, damaging the country’s largest children’s hospital and other buildings in a fierce assault that interrupted heart surgeries and forced young cancer patients to take their treatments outdoors
July 08, 2024
South Korea says it’ll withdraw its earlier plan to suspend licenses of striking doctors to resolve the country’s long medical impasse
July 08, 2024
The Republican National Committee’s platform committee is adopting a policy document that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position — opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to the states
July 08, 2024
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff tests positive for Covid-19; Harris is negative
July 07, 2024
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms, his office announced Sunday, but his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, has tested negative and remains asymptomatic
July 07, 2024
A 75-year-old great-grandmother had recently finished her breast cancer treatment. Then she won a $5 million scratch-off game
July 06, 2024
Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks about troubling behaviors demonstrated by President Joe Biden during the recent CNN debate. These include slow responses, trouble finding words, and less facial movement. Dr. Gupta stresses the need to tell the difference between one-off incidents and possible underlying conditions, urging the president to undergo cognitive testing and share his results.
July 06, 2024
False reports that President Joe Biden had a “medical emeregency” while traveling on Air Force One Friday circulated widely on social media after he arrived home in Delaware after a campaign stop in Wisconsin
July 06, 2024
Roughly 130 million people are under threat from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures and is expected to shatter more inot next week from the Pacific Northwest to the Mid-Alantic states and the Northeast
July 06, 2024
Some transgender and nonbinary people may want to change their voices. Gender-affirming vocal coaches are there to help
July 06, 2024
The Dalai Lama said on Saturday he is recovering from a knee surgery and feels "physically fit", brushing aside rumours of ill health on his 89th birthday.
July 06, 2024
India's pharmaceutical companies are hoping for tax incentives and financial assistance for research on innovative drugs as Prime Minister
July 06, 2024
Chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reacts to President Biden discussing whether he would undergo an independent medical evaluation during his interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos. Watch more of President Biden’s interview on https://abcnews.go.com/
July 06, 2024
Popular weight-loss and diabetes medications linked to lower risk of some cancers, study finds
July 06, 2024
Contractor repairs family's home for free as 7-year-old daughter battles cancer
July 05, 2024
Kansas' highest court on Friday permanently barred the state from enforcing a law banning the most common second-trimester abortion procedure, saying the ban violated
July 05, 2024
Diaper change: Japan’s aging society is transforming the baby care business
July 05, 2024
Father shares update on 11-year-old daughter's progress after surgery for UTV crash injuries
July 05, 2024
Horse tests positive for viral disease that spreads through blood, first known case in 11 years in the state
July 05, 2024
Britain's newly appointed health secretary, Wes Streeting, will hold talks next week with junior doctors to end an industrial strike action, he said in a statement on Friday.
July 05, 2024
Plague is among the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. Cases still happen today
July 05, 2024
Firefighters have made progress against a California wildfire that triggered extensive evacuation orders, but damage assessments have raised the number of destroyed structures to 25 and forecasters say heat and fire risk are expanding on the West Coast
July 05, 2024
‘We still matter': Flooding forces homeless out of encampments overnight
July 05, 2024
Scared, lost pets fill up shelters following 4th of July firework
July 05, 2024
Dangerously hot conditions will dominate over the rest of the July Fourth holiday weekend in much of the U.S.
July 05, 2024
Patients with type 2 diabetes taking GLP-1 treatments, which include Ozempic, have a lower chance of developing 10 types of obesity-related cancers than those taking
July 05, 2024
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has been reprimanded by UK regulators for failing to disclose fees and expenses paid to individuals and organisations in Britain amounting to about
July 05, 2024
Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban face a deadline to submit enough signatures to try to get their proposal before voters in November
July 05, 2024
Health officials investigating human plague case in the county
July 04, 2024
Kris Jenner learns her ovaries will need to be removed because of tumor on ‘The Kardashians’
July 04, 2024
Germany reported a rare outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N5 bird flu on a farm in the western part of the country, near the border with the Netherlands, the World Organisation for
July 04, 2024
The National Weather Service says that around 134 million people in the U.S. are under alerts as an extremely dangerous and record-breaking heat wave broils much of the country
July 04, 2024
White House now says Biden was seen by his doctor days after debate
July 04, 2024
Boil water advisory issued for Washington, DC, and Arlington County due to increased algae blooms
July 04, 2024
Heat waves are getting longer and more brutal. Here’s why your AC can’t save you anymore
July 04, 2024
HYROX: These two women are at the forefront of a ‘body-breaking’ fitness race with Olympic aspirations
July 04, 2024
Japan court orders government to pay damages for forced sterilizations under now-defunct eugenics law
July 04, 2024
Roche will end a lung cancer trial testing its new immunotherapy after the drug did not show a benefit over established treatment Keytruda by Merck
July 04, 2024
Woman who escaped California wildfire just before son’s birth is forced to flee another while pregnant again
July 04, 2024
Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year left hundreds dead or ill
July 04, 2024
Known as the "silent killer," extreme heat is one of the deadliest weather events. As heatwaves become hotter, longer and more frequent due to the climate crisis, it's important to understand why heat can be so deceptively dangerous for some of us and what warning signs to look out for. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains.
July 04, 2024
Why be especially vigilant about food safety this holiday, according to a doctor
July 04, 2024
In the Vivekananda Camp slum, adjacent to the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, communal taps supply brackish water for about two hours a day.
July 04, 2024
A federal district court judge has temporarily halted parts of a nondiscrimination rule that would have kept insurers and medical professionals from denying hormone therapy, gender transition surgeries and similar medical care for transgender people
July 03, 2024
Death under investigation is ‘potentially associated’ with recalled Diamond Shruumz edibles, FDA says
July 03, 2024
A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation
July 03, 2024
'You take it for granted'- family of nine struggles without clean water
July 03, 2024
Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans
July 03, 2024
Fourth human case of bird flu connected to dairy cattle outbreak identified in the US
July 03, 2024
Officials recognize many homeless are veterans; discussions underway on plan to get funding
July 03, 2024
How to help Hurricane Beryl victims
July 03, 2024
Public health officials in Colorado on Wednesday announced an adult man had tested positive for avian flu after reporting mild symptoms, including conjunctivitis, or pink
July 03, 2024
A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule against discrimination on the basis of gender identity in healthcare while he hears a
July 03, 2024
From bedbugs to mold, living conditions spark reforms for public housing
July 03, 2024
Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of rare form of blindness
July 03, 2024
Patients using Novo Nordisk's wildly popular weigh-loss drug Wegovy and its similar medicines for type 2 diabetes may be at increased risk for a sight-threatening eye
July 03, 2024
Marine opens gym to help fellow veterans heal mind, body, and soul
July 03, 2024
Compared with its economic peers, the United States lacks social safety net programs like sick time, vacation time and health care
July 03, 2024
In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to pay suitable compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law that was designed to eliminate offspring of people with disabilities
July 03, 2024
Historical housing discrimination in Detroit persists today and causes disparities in health outcomes. Policies are making a difference, but more needs to be done.
July 03, 2024
Eli Lilly's Kisunla secured standard approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday for slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
July 03, 2024
A set of papers published in Nature contain groundbreaking research into how even quick jaunts to space can affect an astronaut’s health.
July 03, 2024
When the first casualty is wheeled into a brightly lit makeshift field hospital on a stretcher, Ukrainian medic Osmach quickly
July 03, 2024
Nestlé and other companies are trying to stake their claims as weight loss drug experts. They’re not
July 03, 2024
U.S. asset management firm Artisan Investments has raised its stake in Philips to 10%, sending the healthcare technology group's shares rising on Wednesday, a week after the
July 03, 2024
As it gets hotter, 13,000 families in this pocket of America live without electricity
July 03, 2024
British drugmaker GSK on Wednesday bought partner CureVac out of their alliance on influenza and COVID-19 vaccine development, boosting its messenger RNA credentials and extending the
July 03, 2024
Sanofi and partner Regeneron on Wednesday won European Union approval for wider use of their Dupixent injection in patients with a chronic lung disease, a rare case of the EU clearing a
July 03, 2024
Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries as air temperatures reach new summer highs in desert cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas
July 03, 2024
Pro-choice advocates are set to deliver about 800,000 petition signatures Wednesday in hopes of getting the Arizona abortion rights issue on the November general election ballot
July 03, 2024
Nearly 166 million people worldwide are estimated to need urgent action against hunger, according to the
July 03, 2024
A 67-year-old German has been found dead on the Greek island of Crete, police said on Monday, the sixth tourist death in June during a period of unusually hot weather.
July 03, 2024
Medics in Gaza said on Monday they were working to step up screening of young children for severe malnutrition amid fears that hunger is
July 03, 2024
Doctors in Denmark should limit how many packs of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic diabetes drug patients can pick up at one time, the Danish Patient Safety Authority said on Monday, amid
July 03, 2024
A Delhi city minister has started an indefinite hunger strike to demand more drinking water for India's capital, where taps in some of its poorest neighbourhoods
July 03, 2024
Australia will water down a planned world first ban on vaping after opposition from the Greens party led the government on Monday to agree to amend a bill that
July 03, 2024
Obesity drug-maker Novo Nordisk will spend $4.1 billion to build a U.S. facility to fill injection pens for its hugely popular
July 03, 2024
Teva Pharmaceuticals said on Monday it had launched a generic version of Novo Nordisk's Victoza to treat patients with type 2 diabetes, making it the first generic GLP-1 drug in the United
July 03, 2024
Britain's National Health Service said on Monday that data had been published online following a highly disruptive ransomware attack on a medical diagnostics service used
July 03, 2024
A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia's Victoria state said on Tuesday, taking the total
July 03, 2024
The World Health Organization on Thursday issued warnings on fake drugs claiming to contain the active ingredient found in Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Ozempic and weight-loss treatment
July 03, 2024
Blackstone and MBK Partners said on Wednesday the U.S. private equity firm is selling Japanese drugmaker Alinamin Pharmaceutical to the North Asian buyout fund.
July 03, 2024
United States-based buyout fund KKR is in exclusive talks with Germany' Fresenius to buy Eugin, fertility clinics in Spain and Portugal, Spanish newspaper Cinco Dias reported on
July 02, 2024
Marathon contract talks between Kaiser Permanente and union negotiators for 75,000 striking medical workers broke off without a settlement
July 02, 2024
Humana CEO Bruce Broussard will step down in the second half of 2024 after more than a decade at the helm, the insurer said on Wednesday and named healthcare veteran Jim Rechtin as his
July 02, 2024
At a dusty migrant camp in southern Mexico, 19-year-old Luzmar Rodriguez is leaning on a reclined seat at the back of a gray van while a midwife
July 02, 2024
Yocheved Lifshitz, an Israeli grandmother released by Hamas militants on Monday, is a peace activist who together with her husband helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for
July 02, 2024
Dozens of U.S. states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of fueling a youth mental health crisis by making
July 02, 2024
Soaring demand for obesity drugs was in the spotlight at the world's largest trade show for the pharmaceutical services industry this week, as it fuels a boom for
July 02, 2024
Healthcare companies who profit from treating obese and overweight patients are trying to convince investors that powerful new weight-loss drugs won't
July 02, 2024
Three Tennessee families of transgender children on Wednesday asked the U.S.
July 02, 2024
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm President Joe Biden's pick to run the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr.
July 02, 2024
Eli Lilly on Thursday said it has not yet gained approval in Britain for the injection pen it plans to use for its Mounjaro drug against obesity and
July 02, 2024
Climate change harms Americans physically, mentally and financially, often hitting those who have done the least to cause it, including Black people facing
July 02, 2024
Pfizer will cut 500 jobs at its Sandwich, Kent site in the U.K. as part of a cost-cutting effort, the drugmaker said on Tuesday.
July 02, 2024
Ambulance crews of the Palestinian Red Crescent evacuated 31 premature babies from Shifa Hospital on Sunday in coordination with the World Health Organization and the United Nations
July 02, 2024
President Joe Biden will invoke a Cold War-era measure to boost investment in U.S. manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies that he has deemed important for national
July 02, 2024
U.S. babies born in 2022 gained roughly a year in life expectancy compared with babies born a year earlier, federal data showed on Wednesday, marking progress after two
July 02, 2024
The Biden administration announced a proposal on Thursday which would require water systems across the U.S. to replace lead pipes within the next ten years, an issue which has been
July 02, 2024
The United States must do more to prioritize the mental health of pilots, air traffic controllers and other aviation professionals, a top safety official
July 02, 2024
Dialysis group Fresenius Medical Care said on Wednesday that data including medical records on 500,000 patients and former patients were stolen from a U.S. subsidiary's database.
July 02, 2024
A Kentucky woman who filed a class action last week challenging the state's near-total ban on abortion is no longer pregnant, her lawyers said Tuesday, calling for more
July 02, 2024
Actor Matthew Perry died from the "acute effects of ketamine," a sedative sometimes used to treat depression, with drowning and heart disease found to be
July 02, 2024
U.N. officials voiced anger and disbelief on Tuesday about the situation in Gaza hospitals, where injured people do not have basic supplies and children recovering
July 02, 2024
California regulators on Tuesday cleared the way for widespread use of advanced filtration and treatment facilities designed to convert sewage waste into pure
July 02, 2024
Drugmakers including Pfizer, Sanofi and Takeda Pharmaceutical plan to raise prices in the United States on more than 500 drugs in early
July 02, 2024
Consumer Reports has found that plastics retain a "widespread" presence in food despite the health risks, and called on regulators to reassess the safety of
July 02, 2024
Spain's government proposed a nationwide mandate for people to wear masks in hospitals and health clinics on Monday, and Italy said respiratory illness infection rates had hit a
July 02, 2024
Johnson & Johnson and Merck on Monday announced plans to buy cancer therapy developers on the first day of a major U.S. healthcare conference, igniting
July 02, 2024
GSK said on Thursday it agreed to confidentially settle one more lawsuit in California that alleged its discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, the latest in a series of
July 02, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he had been shocked to hear of King Charles' diagnosis of cancer and he hoped the monarch would be able to
July 02, 2024
At least three Alabama providers of in vitro fertilization have halted treatments since the state Supreme Court on Friday said frozen embryos in test tubes should be
July 02, 2024
The Alabama Attorney General's office had "no intention" of prosecuting providers of in vitro fertilization or families who use their services, it said on Friday after the
July 02, 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is proposing on Thursday new rules to strengthen protections for airline passengers using wheelchairs.
July 02, 2024
French lawmakers meet on Monday for a final vote to include the right to abortion into the constitution, a world first welcomed by women's
July 02, 2024
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed into law a measure aimed at protecting in vitro fertilization after the state Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos should be considered children
July 02, 2024
Thousands of reproductive rights supporters rallied on Saturday in Florida to support a voter referendum that would enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution,
July 02, 2024
Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives tried repeatedly to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion on Wednesday but failed to get the
July 02, 2024
GlaxoSmithKline sued Pfizer and BioNTech in Delaware federal court on Thursday, accusing them of infringing GSK patents related to messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in the
July 02, 2024
Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate
July 02, 2024
China's National Health Commission said it was investigating a hospital in the southwest megacity of Chongqing for its alleged involvement in surrogacy, which is illegal in China
July 02, 2024
Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics have ended without a draft agreement by the expected deadline, but progress has been made, the World
July 02, 2024
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General
July 02, 2024
Britain will spend more than 10 billion pounds ($12.70 billion) compensating thousands of people who were treated with blood contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C in
July 02, 2024
Elon Musk and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched SpaceX's satellite internet service for the nation's health sector on Sunday, aiming to
July 02, 2024
One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 were injured after a Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence on Tuesday,
July 02, 2024
India's capital, Delhi, has recorded its first heat-related death this year, media reported on Thursday, as India's northwest swelters in record high temperatures.
July 02, 2024
Six newborns have died in a fire at a baby care hospital in India's capital New Delhi, local authorities said on Sunday.
July 02, 2024
Animals collapsed, people jumped on water tankers with buckets amid shortages and government employees changed their work hours
July 02, 2024
At least 33 people, including election officials on duty, died of suspected heatstroke in India's states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha on Friday,
July 02, 2024
Millions of Americans from the Gulf Coast of Texas to California's San Francisco Bay area were warned on Tuesday to curb outdoor activity and
July 02, 2024
A bill to safeguard access to contraceptives failed to advance in a U.S.
July 02, 2024
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., on Wednesday voted to condemn the use of in vitro fertilization, signaling the campaign by
July 02, 2024
India recorded more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases this summer as a prolonged heatwave killed more than 100 people across the
July 02, 2024
Nearly 2 million Muslims will reach the end of the haj pilgrimage this week, but extreme heat has proved fatal for hundreds who began the journey
July 02, 2024
Nestle's new food brand for people taking weight-loss drugs like Wegovy will note that the meals are high in protein, fiber and nutrients, but will not name the
July 02, 2024
The death of an Indian farm labourer in a gruesome accident in which his right arm was severed by machinery has put a spotlight the conditions of
July 02, 2024
Ann Wilson of Heart reveals cancer diagnosis and is undergoing chemotherapy, cancels rest of 2024 concerts
July 02, 2024
Biden administration sends sharp reminder to doctors about obligation to provide emergency abortions
July 02, 2024
Federal health officials say a Florida cucumber grower that used untreated water is one likely source of salmonella food poisoning that sickened nearly 450 people this spring
July 02, 2024
Gilead Sciences said on Thursday a late-stage study showed its long-acting injectable drug was more effective in preventing HIV infection in women compared to its existing
July 02, 2024
63-year-old powerlifter returns to competition after knee replacement
July 02, 2024
Federal health officials are investigating a possible death and dozens of illnesses tied to recalled microdosing candies sold online and at vape shops
July 02, 2024
Latinos represent a nearly a third of new HIV diagnoses in the US, CDC data shows
July 02, 2024
US government inks a deal with Moderna to make pandemic flu vaccine
July 02, 2024
Egypt formed a crisis unit on Thursday to investigate the deaths of Egyptians taking part in the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca during extreme heat, after medical and security
July 02, 2024
At least 36 people died and more than 60 were being treated in hospitals after consuming tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a government
July 02, 2024
FDA will no longer allow brominated vegetable oil in drinks
July 02, 2024
Walmart has held talks with potential buyers to sell its already shuttered medical clinics, Fortune reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter.
July 02, 2024
Special task force seizes $1 million worth of drugs, including 6,000 fentanyl pills
July 02, 2024
CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent takes viewers' questions on Alzheimer's disease, including whether mental exercises reduce the risk of dementia.
July 02, 2024
CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent takes viewers' questions on Alzheimer's disease, including whether mental exercises reduce the risk of dementia.
July 02, 2024
Ann Wilson, lead singer of rock band Heart, says she has cancer
July 02, 2024
U.S. health officials have approved a new Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease
July 02, 2024
The Democratic Biden administration is telling emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health
July 02, 2024
The global vaccine organisation Gavi wants $9 billion from governments and foundations to fund immunisation efforts in the world’s poorest countries over five years
July 02, 2024
A bid by GSK and other drugmakers to stop more than 70,000 lawsuits in Delaware over discontinued heartburn drug Zantac has received the backing of leading U.S. industry
July 02, 2024
U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly said on Thursday it was suing six more entities including medical spas and wellness centers for selling products claiming to contain tirzepatide, the active
July 02, 2024
Novak Djokovic wore a gray sleeve on his surgically repaired right knee while winning his first-round match at Wimbledon
July 02, 2024
Birth rates have dropped sharply in some of the world's richest states and are likely to stay low as economic worries leave people weighing the costs of having children,
July 02, 2024
Outdoor workers concerned over new Florida law banning heat protections
July 02, 2024
New Sunflower program at BNA helps travelers with "hidden disabilities"
July 02, 2024
Musician overcomes brain damage from lead poisoning, advocates for others with disabilities
July 02, 2024
Parents who claim Panera's Charged Lemonade caused daughter's death are calling for changes amid lawsuit
July 02, 2024
Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances
July 02, 2024
Supreme Court agrees to review FDA’s power to regulate e-cigarettes
July 02, 2024
The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine
July 02, 2024
The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited proposal that would require many U.S. employers to protect 36 million workers from extreme heat.
July 02, 2024
The heatwave gripping northern India has killed nearly 200 homeless people in New Delhi over the last week, a group dedicated to helping the homeless said on Thursday
July 02, 2024
Jamie Foxx hasn’t publicly disclosed what caused his hospitalization in April 2023, but he has shared more details during an encounter captured on video. CNN's Lisa France reports.
July 02, 2024
Jamie Foxx shares new details about health crisis that left him ‘gone for 20 days’
July 02, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it had warned a website called ozempen.com against unlawfully selling versions of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drugs.
July 02, 2024
The Supreme Court is taking up an e-cigarette case
July 02, 2024
Biden admin to roll out first federal safety standard for workers in excessive heat
July 02, 2024
Deciphering how neurons talk to each other by reading the brain’s electrical activity has given scientists insights into memory and conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
July 02, 2024
Viatris unit Mylan is no longer a subject of the U.S.
July 02, 2024
The U.S. government has awarded $176 million to Moderna to advance development of its bird flu vaccine, the company said on Tuesday, as concerns rise
July 02, 2024
The Central African Republic's three million children are the world's most deprived, with widespread malnutrition, inadequate healthcare access and instability putting the country
July 02, 2024
ARFID: the eating disorder you haven’t heard of
July 02, 2024
Pfizer and Moderna's legal battle over their rival COVID-19 vaccines looks set to continue after London's High Court gave a mixed ruling on two of Moderna's patents,
July 02, 2024
The administration of President Joe Biden took steps on Tuesday to protect workers and communities from the deadly effects of extreme heat including proposing
July 02, 2024
With extreme heat gripping much of the Northern Hemisphere this week, authorities and public health experts have issued heat warnings to help
July 02, 2024
Biden campaign chair gives a staunch defense of the president’s health to donors, says campaign is clear-eyed about debate
July 02, 2024
A Delaware judge rebuffed a request by GSK and other drugmakers to appeal a ruling allowing more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming that the heartburn drug Zantac caused
July 01, 2024
Boy seriously injured after being hit by truck making amazing strides
July 01, 2024
Bionic leg restores natural walking speeds and steps: ‘I didn’t feel like my leg had been amputated’
July 01, 2024
100 people rescued by National Guard from flash flooding
July 01, 2024
A family experienced tragedy and hope in the NICU. Now they're helping thousands of others.
July 01, 2024
Teen knocked unconscious after lightning strike, grateful to be alive
July 01, 2024
Parents advocate against drunk driving
July 01, 2024
The rate of Americans who are uninsured will rise to 8.9% over the next decade from 7.7% in 2024, driven by rising immigration and reduced eligibility for 19-to-24
July 01, 2024
The World Bank said on Monday that it had approved $700 million for two new programs aimed at strengthening Jordan's education, health and social assistance sectors.
July 01, 2024
A teen tried to escape a wasp at a pool. He's now paralyzed.
July 01, 2024
Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come
July 01, 2024
Amazon.com's pharmacy unit said on Tuesday it is expanding eligibility for its monthly subscription service, which covers a range of generic drugs, to those enrolled in government-backed
July 01, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma law prohibiting transgender people from changing their birth certificates to match their gender
July 01, 2024
Swiss drugmaker Roche will team up with privately held biotech Ascidian Therapeutics to develop gene therapies targeting difficult to treat neurological diseases, the Boston-based startup
July 01, 2024
These ultraprocessed foods may shorten your life, study says
July 01, 2024
In new Alzheimer’s criteria, some see progress while others fear profit-driven ‘diagnostic creep’
July 01, 2024
An Indian government-approved expert panel has advised the country's drug regulator to approve the import and sale of U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly's Mounjaro, a
July 01, 2024
Disabled people are experts in using – and designing – assistive technologies. They have lessons to offer everyone about keeping control when help is offered.
July 01, 2024
Bristol Myers Squibb has agreed to pay 10 million shekels ($2.7 million) in Israel to settle a potential case over its blocking of a generic version for anti-
July 01, 2024
The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year
July 01, 2024
Johnson & Johnson is facing a new proposed class action seeking damages and medical monitoring on behalf of women who have been diagnosed with cancer, or might develop
July 01, 2024
Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu
July 01, 2024
South African pharmacy chain Clicks Group said on Monday it would sell drug maker Unicorn Pharmaceuticals to comply with a court ruling, clearing the way for the health ministry to issue
July 01, 2024
AstraZeneca said on Monday that the European Union drug regulator has accepted a market authorisation application for its investigational COVID-19 prevention drug, sipavibart, for an
July 01, 2024
New vaping regulations in Australia came into force on Monday, moving e-cigarettes behind pharmacy counters in a bid to curb youth vaping although opponents forced
July 01, 2024
Australia restricts vape sales to pharmacies in ‘world-leading’ move to cut nicotine use
July 01, 2024
French drugmaker Sanofi is nearing a decision to invest between 1.3 billion and 1.5 billion euros ($1.4-$1.6 billion) to upgrade its production of long-acting insulin shots in
July 01, 2024
Merck said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its next-generation vaccine to protect adults against the pneumococcal disease.
July 01, 2024
The U.S. health regulator has placed three studies of Zentalis Pharmaceuticals' cancer drug on partial clinical hold following the death of two trial participants, the company said on
July 01, 2024
The South Korean government issued a return-to-work order for private practitioners on Tuesday as more doctors including medical professors join the months-long strike
June 30, 2024
Japanese drugmaker Eisai is developing a dementia treatment that it aims to commercialise in the U.S. by fiscal 2030, the Nikkei reported on Sunday.
June 30, 2024
An illness forced Brian Ortega to withdraw Saturday hours before his scheduled fight with Diego Lopes in the co-main event at UFC 303
June 30, 2024
As many as 4 million people in India scratch out a living searching through landfills for anything they can sell
June 30, 2024
Man finds live parasite in fish filet bought at Honolulu grocery store
June 29, 2024
Pan Mass Challenge rider giving back to Dana-Farber, who treated her cancer while pregnant
June 29, 2024
Senior LGBTQ+-friendly housing complex in Boston opens its doors
June 29, 2024
5 ways to tap into joy during exercise
June 29, 2024
As the UN comes under fire for giving the Taliban a seat at the table while excluding women, Anna Coren updates us on the dire consequences of the Taliban’s misogyny, as suicide rates among girls surge.
June 29, 2024
As the UN comes under fire for giving the Taliban a seat at the table while excluding women, Anna Coren updates us on the dire consequences of the Taliban’s misogyny, as suicide rates among girls surge.
June 29, 2024
Novak Djokovic says his right knee has responded well after surgery to repair a torn meniscus less than a month ago and he considers himself ready to contend at Wimbledon
June 29, 2024
The summer doldrums have set in across much of the United States, with heat advisories being issued Saturday from Texas to South Florida
June 29, 2024
Mark Cavendish has appeared to struggle with stomach and heat issues during the opening stage of the Tour de France
June 29, 2024
In the last 10 days of June, on a frenetic pace of its own making, the Supreme Court has touched a wide swath of American society in decisions on abortion, guns, the environment, health, the opioid crisis, securities fraud and homelessness
June 29, 2024
The boss of British health and beauty retailer Boots is quitting after U.S. owner Walgreens Boots Alliance's plans for a sale or stock market listing of the chain stalled, according to a
June 29, 2024
With temperatures rising across the country and school out for the summer, many families will visit the beach, lake or local swimming pool
June 29, 2024
Tobacco giant Philip Morris International said on Monday that it would suspend online sales on Swedish Match North America's ZYN.com nationwide as the Zyn nicotine pouch maker responds to
June 29, 2024
Heat waves in Europe are getting more dangerous. Here’s what that means for travelers
June 29, 2024
A federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by a group of cancer victims to block Johnson & Johnson from pursuing a proposed bankruptcy settlement of tens of thousands of
June 29, 2024
Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale said on social media he has been diagnosed with cancer for a fourth time
June 28, 2024
FDA finds H5N1 bird flu in half of tested samples but confirms flash pasteurization kills virus
June 28, 2024
The U.S. state of Kansas on Monday sued Pfizer, accusing the company of misleading the public about its COVID-19 vaccine by hiding risks while making false claims about
June 28, 2024
The head of the national mine workers’ union is condemning an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing workers’ exposure to deadly rock dust
June 28, 2024
Make-A-Wish, Camping World work together to surprise young girl with cystic fibrosis
June 28, 2024
'We just felt frustrated and ignored': Family says nursing home complaint went unanswered
June 28, 2024
A U.S. medical professor has been charged with fraud for allegedly submitting false data to get millions of dollars in public funds for research into a drug
June 28, 2024
Nursing student provides home for autistic woman from Israel
June 28, 2024
'A miracle': Man learning to walk again after surviving skydiving accident
June 28, 2024
Turning pain into change; grieving mother pleas for boaters to stay sober
June 28, 2024
Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a
June 28, 2024
India's Rajasthan state has told the federal government it found some spices of popular brands MDH and Everest "unsafe" for consumption after
June 28, 2024
Further spread of bird flu among U.S. dairy herds presents additional opportunities for human infections, federal officials said on Thursday while
June 28, 2024
Shahed Al-Kotati, part of a group of Palestinians struck down by the war in Gaza who are receiving medical care in Qatar, hopes that by next year, she'll be able to
June 28, 2024
Italy has demanded the removal of a reference to "safe and legal abortion" from the final statement of this week's Group of Seven summit,
June 28, 2024
The founder and the top doctor of a San Francisco-based telehealth startup were charged by the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Teva Pharmaceuticals sued rival drugmaker Corcept Therapeutics in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday, accusing it of monopolizing the market for mifepristone-
June 28, 2024
Group of Seven leaders have pledged to step up efforts against global malnutrition, according to a draft statement on Friday that noted Russia's invasion of
June 28, 2024
About one-third of U.S. employer health plans are offering coverage of GLP-1 drugs for both diabetes management and weight loss, up from last year, according to a
June 28, 2024
Supplies of food to southern Gaza are at risk after Israel extended its military operations and those displaced by the offensive there face a public health crisis, a senior
June 28, 2024
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions said on Friday that Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Jorgensen has agreed to testify voluntarily in a hearing focusing on U.S. prices for
June 28, 2024
Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, is due to make her first public appearance on Saturday since surgery five months ago revealed the presence of cancer, saying she
June 28, 2024
Thousands of women protested on Saturday against a bill advancing in Brazil's conservative Congress that would equate abortions after 22 weeks of
June 28, 2024
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread to a seventh poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia's Victoria state said on Monday.
June 28, 2024
A federal judge in Arkansas has tossed out a legal challenge by 17 Republican-led states to a U.S. agency rule giving workers who had abortions the same legal
June 28, 2024
The Biden administration asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by anti-smoking groups demanding that it end nearly a year of delay and ban menthol cigarettes, which
June 28, 2024
U.S. officials say a new study provides reassurance that pasteurization kills bird flu virus in cow’s milk
June 28, 2024
Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
June 28, 2024
Healthcare spending in the U.S. is projected to have risen 7.5% in 2023 to $4.8 trillion, federal data showed on Wednesday, outpacing the projected annual
June 28, 2024
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision Friday by the Supreme Court
June 28, 2024
Iowa Supreme Court upholds state’s 6-week abortion ban
June 28, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths and rejected pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek care for their children
June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court has upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections
June 28, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsome says a Supreme Court ruling that cities can enforce bans on people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas will give local officials more freedom to address the crisis
June 28, 2024
Iowa can enforce a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the state's highest court ruled on Friday, reversing a lower court order that had blocked the
June 28, 2024
The United Nations humanitarian agency is struggling to secure funding to combat severe food insecurity in Nigeria's insurgency-hit northeast, raising fears of mass
June 28, 2024
ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing detainees to reduce the death count.
June 28, 2024
ARS Pharmaceuticals said on Friday the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the approval of its needle-free emergency treatment, EURneffy, for allergic
June 28, 2024
Rocket Pharmaceuticals said on Friday the U.S. health regulator declined to approve its gene therapy to treat a rare and severe pediatric disorder that causes the immune
June 28, 2024
Britain's National Health Service faces myriad problems
June 28, 2024
India is planning to offer incentives to promote local manufacturing of GLP-1 drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity, in 2026, a top government official said
June 28, 2024
The toxic gas ethylene oxide (EtO) is detectable in southeastern Louisiana at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, according to a new study.
June 28, 2024
Israeli forces pressed their incursion deeper into two northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday, and Palestinian health
June 28, 2024
The lead singer of the celebrated Motown group the Four Tops has sued a Michigan hospital, claiming he was put into restraints and denied treatment for a serious heart problem
June 28, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that many people in Gaza were facing "catastrophic hunger and famine-like conditions".
June 28, 2024
Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching
June 28, 2024
Mass starvation is a "very real risk" in some regions of war-torn Sudan, where conflict has made medical aid broadly unavailable, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said
June 28, 2024
The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state’s strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect
June 28, 2024
Eisai and Biogen have launched their Alzheimer's treatment Leqembi in China, the third country after the United States and Japan, the companies said on Friday.
June 28, 2024
As COVID-19 bubbles up in some parts of the country, health officials are setting course for a fall vaccination campaign
June 27, 2024
The company helped spur a public health crisis through its deceptive marketing and aggressive sales of prescription opioids.
June 27, 2024
Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last for generations.
June 27, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions
June 27, 2024
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an investigation by 42 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. into its marketing of baby powder and other
June 27, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected a settlement for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family who own the company
June 27, 2024
The Supreme Court rejected a controversial settlement that would have sent billions of dollars to treatment programs and victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic but also shielded the Sackler family from future lawsuits even though it made its fortune selling prescription opioids. CNN Legal Analyst Elie Honig has more.
June 27, 2024
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortions for now in a procedural ruling that leaves key questions unanswered
June 27, 2024
The Sackler family members who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma say they're disappointed in the Supreme Court's rejection of a nationwide settlement that would've shielded them from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would've provided billions of dollars to combat the epidemic
June 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon begin compensating dairy farmers for the loss of milk supply due to bird flu-infected cows, the agency said on Thursday.
June 27, 2024
More than 36% of the 400 drug manufacturing units inspected since last year in India were ordered to be shut, the country's drug regulator said on Thursday,
June 27, 2024
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that parts of Florida's ban of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children and restrictions on gender-affirming
June 27, 2024
Israeli authorities say 68 people — 19 sick and injured children and their companions — have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since May, when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down
June 27, 2024
Millions of Americans would see medical debts vanish from their credit reports under pending regulations unveiled Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced.
June 27, 2024
Germany's influential vaccine advisory panel said on Thursday all infants in the country should receive AstraZeneca and Sanofi's antibody therapy to protect them against the
June 27, 2024
Elaine Thompson-Herah, five-time Olympic gold medalist, ruled out of Paris Games with Achilles injury
June 27, 2024
Indervir Singh has worked for the Delhi Fire Services for 32 years but he can't recall responding to as many fires as this summer.
June 27, 2024
Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions
June 27, 2024
French drugmaker Servier on Thursday lost its court battle against a European Union fine for deals with rivals to delay sales of generic copies of its top-selling
June 27, 2024
Families bid a tearful goodbye to over a dozen critically ill children who left Gaza for treatment abroad
June 27, 2024
Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group has launched a joint venture with Tempus AI that aims to analyse personal medical data with artificial intelligence (AI) to
June 27, 2024
GSK shares fell as much as 7% on Thursday, a day after a U.S. public health agency narrowed its age recommendation for use of respiratory syncytial virus
June 27, 2024
Children trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s tent camps for displaced families
June 27, 2024
The Supreme Court formally dismissed an appeal over Idaho’s strict abortion ban, blocking enforcement of the state’s law a day after the opinion was inadvertently posted on the court’s website in an astonishing departure from its highly controlled protocols. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig weighs in.
June 26, 2024
Wisconsin's highest court is expected to agree to hear a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood asking it to recognize a right to abortion in the state, news site Wisconsin Watch
June 26, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to release an opinion that will allow doctors in Idaho to perform abortions to stabilize patients at least for now, despite the state's strict abortion ban
June 26, 2024
Federal health officials are strengthening their endorsement of RSV vaccinations for people 75 and older
June 26, 2024
A top Bayer pharmaceutical executive said on Wednesday his group will continue slashing managerial jobs this year, planning cuts in Germany, Japan, the United
June 26, 2024
Living among a small band of Neanderthals in what is now eastern Spain was a child, perhaps 6 years old, with Down syndrome, as shown in a remarkable fossil preserving
June 26, 2024
Reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee, six-time world championship medalist Shilese Jones and national championship runner-up Skye Blakely are facing health concerns ahead of the U.S. Olympic trials
June 26, 2024
Authorities in the Democratic of Congo have approved the use of two mpox vaccines to try to tackle an upsurge in cases and a dangerous new strain spreading in the
June 26, 2024
The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, as a legal case plays out
June 26, 2024
AI-based drug developer Formation Bio said on Wednesday that it has raised $372 million in a late-stage funding round, with a significant participation from French drugmaker Sanofi.
June 26, 2024
The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI have announced that five people, including a man acquitted at trial, have been charged with conspiring to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash
June 26, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday recommended steps for drugmakers and medical device makers to improve racial, ethnic and other diversity in their clinical trials.
June 26, 2024
A new national report says racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state despite some progress over the past two decades
June 26, 2024
Novo Nordisk said on Wednesday it would recognise an impairment loss of about 5.7 billion Danish crowns ($816.72 million) in the second quarter of 2024, after its CLARION-CKD
June 26, 2024
Moderna Inc respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) shot mRESVIA showed 50% efficacy in preventing RSV after 18 months, the drugmaker said on Wednesday.
June 26, 2024
Lionel Messi hopes a leg injury sustained during Argentina’s 1-0 Copa America win over Chile is “nothing serious”
June 26, 2024
The June heat wave triggered warnings of a flash drought and caused a surge in ER visits. Many other countries have been facing extreme heat at the same time.
June 26, 2024
Haleon will sell its nicotine replacement therapy business outside the U.S. to a unit of India's Dr.
June 26, 2024
A court-appointed panel on Friday recommended how to divvy up a pool of $2.13 billion in legal fees from nationwide drug industry settlements over the U.S. opioid crisis
June 26, 2024
Pope Francis spoke out on Wednesday against the legalisation of drugs and denounced drug traffickers as "assassins", while also calling for help and support for addicts.
June 26, 2024
China has approved the use of AstraZeneca's blockbuster cancer drug Tagrisso in combination with chemotherapy as a first line of treatment for adults with a type of advanced lung cancer,
June 26, 2024
The Taliban-ordered crash in opium production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier, could drive up overdose deaths as heroin users switch to synthetic opioids already
June 26, 2024
Sick children across the country and in Africa are having their hospital stays brightened somewhat by the efforts of two young sisters from New Jersey, who make and donate brightly colored, kid-themed hospital gowns for kids
June 26, 2024
Federal food safety regulators are warning Bimbo Bakeries USA to stop using misleading labels that say products contain potentially dangerous allergens when they don't
June 25, 2024
It’s a conundrum: While vaping can help some adults stop cigarette smoking, it also appeals to young people who may take up the habit.
June 25, 2024
DuPont, 3M, Honeywell and 16 other defendants were sued on Tuesday by Connecticut firefighters who said their protective gear was contaminated by toxic "forever
June 25, 2024
In our modern swipe-rights and digital romance world, one woman discovered the path to self-love by taking a break from dating apps altogether. Mimi Watt‘s journey to boosting her confidence and finding self-worth began when she made the daring decision to delete Hinge, forgoing the tempting endorphin rushes of new matches in favor of a more nourishing relationship with herself. For years, the 29-year-old Sydney native had been caught up in the intoxicating cycle of looking for love online. While dating apps provided an initial thrill of romantic possibility, Watt felt increasingly drained, diverting precious energy into the pursuit of
June 25, 2024
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory on Tuesday alerting healthcare providers about an increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States.
June 25, 2024
U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the tropical disease breaks international records
June 25, 2024
Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the country's health ministry announced on Tuesday, following a
June 25, 2024
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on how extreme heat affects the body and what you can do to prevent heat stroke or heat exhaustion.
June 25, 2024
Israel’s siege has drained food supplies in parts of Gaza for months, plunging Palestinians into a severe hunger crisis, according to humanitarian agencies. Parents in the besieged enclave say they have no choice but to watch helplessly as their children fight for survival. CNN correspondent Paula Hancocks reports.
June 25, 2024
Celebrated actor and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, says her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes
June 25, 2024
Eli Lilly said on Tuesday it will collaborate with OpenAI to leverage its generative AI to develop antimicrobials that can be used to treat drug-resistant bacteria.
June 25, 2024
The Kenya Red Cross said on Tuesday that its vehicles had been attacked in anti-tax demonstrations and staff and volunteers injured.
June 25, 2024
Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out
June 25, 2024
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to registered nurse Kate Carleton about her efforts to prepare schoolchildren to treat injuries suffered in a mass shooting.
June 25, 2024
South Africa's Cilo Cybin on Tuesday became the first medical cannabis company to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange's Alternative Exchange, as it
June 25, 2024
Officials say a days-long intense heat wave has disrupted normal life in Pakistan, especially in the southern city of Karachi, where doctors have treated thousands of victims of heatstroke
June 25, 2024
Nestle's health unit on Tuesday launched a web platform to provide nutritional support for individuals on weight loss programs, including those using GLP-1 medications.
June 25, 2024
An appeals court in the German city of Stuttgart on Tuesday rejected damage claims against a physician who was accused of not warning of alleged harm from a COVID-19 vaccine she
June 25, 2024
Whether you’re a reporter, a teacher or a nurse, it’s becoming more difficult to find meaning in your work.
June 25, 2024
Durability and the risk of chemicals being released when pipes heat up are just 2 concerns about plastic pipes.
June 25, 2024
Cell-free DNA prenatal screening, sometimes called ‘the gender test,’ cannot determine gender because gender is more than just genes and genitals.
June 25, 2024
The closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has prevented the medical evacuations of at least 2,000 patients, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday,
June 25, 2024
Almost 960,000 Italians aged between 15 and 19, or 39% of them, have consumed illegal substances at least once, an annual government report to parliament showed on Tuesday, as drug
June 25, 2024
A 15-day course of Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid did not relieve symptoms of long COVID, according a study by Stanford University researchers.
June 25, 2024
Haiti's new interim prime minister, Garry Conille, is in stable condition after being hospitalized for an unspecified illness on Saturday afternoon, his office said.
June 25, 2024
The spread of mpox in Africa needs to be addressed urgently, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as scientists warned separately of a dangerous strain in
June 25, 2024
The main hospital in Sudan's al-Fashir city has been attacked by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the
June 25, 2024
The U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence in the country a public health crisis on Tuesday, calling on Americans to act to prevent rising
June 25, 2024
Finland plans to
June 25, 2024
The Norwegian government has signed a deal to start stockpiling grain, saying the COVID-19 pandemic, a war in Europe and climate change have made it necessary
June 25, 2024
The U.S. surgeon general is declaring gun violence a public health crisis, driven by a growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country
June 25, 2024
A steel plant in the southern Italian city of Taranto should be shut down if it poses significant threats to the environment and human health, the European Court of Justice said
June 25, 2024
At an orphanage in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, more than 60 children stared at their plate of palm weevil larvae fried up in spices,
June 25, 2024
AstraZeneca's blockbuster cancer drug Imfinzi has failed as a follow-up therapy to improve disease-free survival in a late-stage trial in patients with a type of early-stage lung cancer,
June 25, 2024
Novo Nordisk's hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved in China, it said on Tuesday, the world's second-largest economy and the country estimated
June 25, 2024
AbbVie’s top-selling arthritis drug Humira has held onto more than 80% of patients after facing nine lower-priced rivals in the U.S. in the last year, raising questions
June 25, 2024
A man who contracted bird flu in Mexico died due to chronic diseases and not the virus, Mexico's health ministry said on Friday.
June 25, 2024
The U.S. health regulator on Friday advised COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers that new shots for the fall 2024 campaign should target the JN.1 variant that was dominant earlier this year.
June 25, 2024
The CEO of a South Korean lithium battery manufacturer apologised on Tuesday following a massive factory fire that killed 23
June 25, 2024
A Tennessee state Democratic lawmaker and reproductive rights activist have filed a lawsuit challenging a new statute designed to ban adults from helping minors get an abortion without parental permission
June 24, 2024
A new study shows the infant death rate in Texas went up in the wake of the state's abortion ban
June 24, 2024
Novo Nordisk is facing the prospect of intensifying competition in the promising Chinese market where drugmakers are developing at least 15 generic versions of its
June 24, 2024
Stinging jellyfish, rays with their whip-like tails and sharks on the hunt are some ocean hazards that might typically worry beachgoers
June 24, 2024
A senior official with the U.N. health agency says the reconnected U.S.-built pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip cannot supply Palestinians with anywhere near the level of aid they need
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities
June 24, 2024
As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to keep their children cool while still letting the kids enjoy being outside with nature
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court is stepping into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear appeals from the Biden administration and families seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care
June 24, 2024
At least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70,000 women and 500,000 babies worldwide every year
June 24, 2024
A neuroscientist explains how hormonal contraceptives work − and how stress may increase or decrease depression risk while on them.
June 24, 2024
Princess Anne has been hospitalized after an accident thought to involve a horse left her with a concussion
June 24, 2024
Australia plans to outlaw the sale of vapes outside pharmacies from next week under some of the world’s toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes
June 24, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is years into an initiative to end the nation’s HIV epidemic by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars annually into certain states, counties and U.S. territories with the highest infection rates
June 24, 2024
Dairy cows infected with avian flu in five U.S. states have died or been slaughtered by farmers because they did not recover, state officials and academics
June 24, 2024
An FDA analysis of trial data for Eli Lilly's experimental Alzheimer's drug donanemab released on Thursday revealed no red flags, but raised
June 24, 2024
The ongoing U.S. outbreak of avian flu in dairy cattle reached Minnesota on Thursday as the state announced its first infected herd.
June 24, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Thursday it was rescinding a June 2022 order that briefly blocked sale of Juul Lab's products, including its e-cigarette device.
June 24, 2024
Employees of drugmaker WuXi AppTec, under U.S. scrutiny for its links to the Chinese military, co-invented altitude sickness treatments
June 24, 2024
Hungary forward Barnabás Varga is in hospital in stable condition after a serious-looking injury at his team’s final group match at the European Championship
June 23, 2024
Novo Nordisk's popular obesity drug Wegovy helped women with a common heart disease lose more weight than men who had the same
June 23, 2024
The director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office Ismail Al-Thawabta and a Gaza health ministry official told Reuters on Thursday 40 people were killed and 73 were wounded
June 23, 2024
Like many firms during the pandemic Worxbee, a small business that provides virtual executive assistant services, brought on bodies when Chief Executive Kenzie Biggins
June 23, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris says “everything is at stake” with reproductive health rights in November's presidential election
June 23, 2024
New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton expects to miss about four weeks because of a strained left hamstring, which caused him to go on the injured list for the eighth time in six seasons
June 23, 2024
More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage as the faithful faced soaring temperatures at Islamic holy sites in Saudi Arabia
June 23, 2024
A person with prior health complications who had contracted bird flu died in Mexico in April and the source of exposure to the virus was unknown,
June 23, 2024
UNICEF said on Thursday that nine out of 10 children in Gaza could not eat nutrients from enough food groups to ensure their healthy growth and development.
June 23, 2024
Abortion-rights supporters in several states have used the citizen initiative process to protect access in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to the procedure
June 23, 2024
Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance the budget
June 22, 2024
A 22-year-old woman who's become a vocal reproductive rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady Jill Biden in Pennsylvania this weekend
June 22, 2024
The death toll has climbed to 54 from consumption of tainted liquor in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, with more than 100 people still in hospital, a
June 22, 2024
Ivory Coast health authorities have launched mobile enrollment centers for the country’s universal health coverage program
June 22, 2024
U.S. health safety inspectors are gradually restarting inspections of avocados and mangos in Mexico needed to export the farm commodities to the United States, the U.S.
June 22, 2024
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the rights to bankrupt drugmaker Eiger BioPharmaceuticals' experimental drug for low blood sugar in a $35.1 million deal, Eiger said in a filing on
June 21, 2024
At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix, where the temperatures this week hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), Arizona’s Maricopa Department of Public Health reported this week
June 21, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Friday refused to block a federal mandate requiring health insurers to cover preventive care services like cancer screenings and HIV-preventing
June 21, 2024
A new study finds the popular obesity drug Zepbound may help treat sleep apnea, a dangerous disorder in which people struggle to breathe during sleep
June 21, 2024
Eli Lilly on Friday said its popular weight-loss drug Zepbound helped resolve moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea in up to 52% of patients in two late-stage
June 21, 2024
Eight employers who challenged some federal health insurance requirements cannot be forced to provide no-cost coverage for certain types of preventive care, including HIV prep and some kinds of cancer screenings, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled Friday
June 21, 2024
Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes on a tent camp outside the southern city of Rafah have killed at least 25 people and wounded another 50
June 21, 2024
Gabon has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, for the first time since 2022 at a poultry market in the capital Libreville, the
June 21, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes for adult smokers
June 21, 2024
Milwaukee Brewers left-hander Robert Gasser will undergo Tommy John surgery on Monday, becoming the team's third injured starter to miss the rest of the 2024 season.
June 21, 2024
When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees
June 21, 2024
A traffic engineer argues that, contrary to his profession’s view, ‘human error’ is not the main cause of deaths in car crashes in the US.
June 21, 2024
A growing body of research points to links between social media use and mental health harms, but establishing clear cause and effect is difficult.
June 21, 2024
The World Health Organization warned on Friday that scorching heat in the Gaza Strip could exacerbate health problems for Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombardment and heavy
June 21, 2024
A high court in Namibia declared two colonial-era laws that criminalised same-sex acts between men unconstitutional on Friday, in a landmark win for the LGBTQ
June 21, 2024
Britain's National Health Service said on Friday it was investigating claims that hackers had published confidential data stolen from several London hospitals in a cyber attack on a
June 21, 2024
Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical gave India's Sun Pharmaceutical and Cipla the rights to commercialize gastrointestinal drug Vonoprazan in the country.
June 21, 2024
The death toll from the latest case of tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 47, with over 100 people still in hospital, a
June 21, 2024
The Gaza Strip faces unprecedented disease outbreaks this summer caused by piles of uncollected waste rotting in the heat, fuelling further misery for residents already suffering
June 21, 2024
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts
June 21, 2024
California’s workplace regulators passed rules that would protect indoor workers from extreme heat
June 20, 2024
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that guidance issued by President Joe Biden's administration that bars hospitals and other medical providers from using online tracking
June 20, 2024
The U.N.'s food agency says families in Sudan’s embattled western Darfur region have received an emergency increase in food aid that is needed to help avert looming famine
June 20, 2024
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday slashed a $2.25 billion U.S. verdict against Bayer to $400 million for a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from
June 20, 2024
A Ukrainian center that provides free bionic and prosthetic limbs to soldiers maimed by Russian shells has expanded its main hospital and intends to open others in the
June 20, 2024
The World Health Organization and drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. are warning patients to be wary of fake versions of weight-loss and diabetes medicines
June 20, 2024
Siraj Yassin, 10, is rolled into the overcrowded Gaza hospital ward in his wheelchair, his light green T-shirt dwarfing his skinny frame since the leukaemia in his blood
June 20, 2024
Mexico's health ministry has tallied at least 125 heat-related deaths this year
June 20, 2024
Indonesia said on Thursday it would start regulating the cultivation and export of kratom, a substance that advocates say can help ease pain alongside other benefits, but is listed
June 20, 2024
The heat comes from everywhere when you’re active outside on hot days – the Sun’s rays, the air around you, the ground and even your own body.
June 20, 2024
From drawing to gardening and woodworking, self-expression can lower stress, improve mood and increase self-confidence.
June 20, 2024
The European Union’s top court says products such as disinfectants can’t be advertised as “skin friendly.”
June 20, 2024
Data from India's Health Ministry shows a monthslong heat wave across swathes of India has killed more than 100 people and led to over 40,000 suspected cases of heat stroke in the last three and a half months
June 20, 2024
Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel
June 20, 2024
Johnson & Johnson must pay $260 million to an Oregon woman who said she got mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to asbestos exposure, from inhaling the company's talc
June 20, 2024
Healthcare systems of neighbouring countries are feeling the strain as thousands of critical patients from the Gaza Strip are evacuated for treatment of complex injuries and
June 20, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has joined African leaders to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa
June 20, 2024
Officials say at least 34 people have died and dozens are hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor tainted with methanol in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu
June 20, 2024
Tibetans' spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will travel to the U.S. this month to undergo medical treatment for his knees and will not hold his usual public engagements
June 20, 2024
Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer's have found a rare gene variant that seems to delay initial symptoms by about five years
June 19, 2024
Research animal breeder Envigo pleaded guilty in Virginia on Monday to federal animal welfare and environmental crimes, resolving a two-year U.S.
June 19, 2024
Bryson DeChambeau couldn’t play at the Tokyo Olympics because of COVID-19
June 19, 2024
Raw milk has always carried the risk of serious illness, and this risk has only risen with bird flu spreading across dairy farms in the US.
June 19, 2024
Abortion rights have found an unlikely champion in swing state Pennsylvania
June 19, 2024
‘You never think it will happen to you,’ says WNBA rookie and Olympic hopeful Cameron Brink after suffering ACL tear
June 19, 2024
Adekunle Gold on sickle cell advocacy: ‘It’s time to learn my voice – people are dying’
June 19, 2024
A Delaware judge has allowed more than 70,000 lawsuits over discontinued heartburn drug Zantac to go forward, ruling that expert witnesses can testify in court that the
June 19, 2024
The number of teenage abortions in Finland fell by 66% between 2000 and 2023, its public health institute THL said on Monday, attributing the reduction to the
June 19, 2024
India's unusually severe heatwave this summer is suspected to have killed more than 100 people and made tens of thousands ill,
June 19, 2024
Heavy rain and hail are falling around an evacuated village in New Mexico threatened by wildfires that have killed at least two people and damaged more than 1,400 structures, offering the hope of some assistance for firefighters but adding the threat of high winds and flash floods
June 19, 2024
Government officials say Dollar Tree stores failed to effectively recall lead-tainted applesauce pouches linked to illness in more than 500 U.S. children
June 18, 2024
The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.
June 18, 2024
A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining information on patients who were not under his care
June 18, 2024
Future space missions will fly farther and longer than ever before – which means crew members may need more involved medical care in space.
June 18, 2024
Texas' highest court on Friday refused to ensure that doctors in the U.S. state are not prosecuted for abortions they believe are necessary in medically complicated
June 18, 2024
Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if possible, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.
June 18, 2024
South Korean officials issued return-to-work orders for doctors participating in a one-day walkout as part of a protracted strike against a government plan to sharply boost medical school admissions
June 18, 2024
Majorities of Americans favor forgiving all or some of an individual’s medical debt if the person is facing hardships
June 18, 2024
The U.S. health regulator's staff said on Friday data on the psychedelic drug MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder was difficult to interpret, and raised
June 17, 2024
A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions
June 17, 2024
A former nurse at an Oregon hospital is facing criminal charges that she harmed nearly four dozen patients by stealing fentanyl and replacing it with non-sterile tap water in intravenous drips
June 17, 2024
An anti-abortion group in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit to block an abortion rights measure from the November ballot
June 17, 2024
A New York City hospital fired a Palestinian American Muslim nurse after she called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide" during an acceptance speech for an award
June 17, 2024
People on Medicare who survived a drug overdose were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose
June 17, 2024
There are a number of options available to help aging pets and their caregivers, including hospice and palliative care, at-home euthanasia and a growing community of so-called pet death doulas
June 17, 2024
The Democratic-controlled Vermont Legislature on Monday overturned a number of the Republican governor’s vetoes, passing measures to prevent drug overdoses, restrict a pesticide that’s toxic to bees and to require state utilities to source all renewable energy by 2035
June 17, 2024
The answer depends in part on where you live. If it’s extremely hot and humid, the health risks are much higher.
June 17, 2024
Gunpowder warfare kicked off a new era of invasive surgery and prosthetic technology in Western medicine.
June 17, 2024
While manufacturers say they are marketing oral nicotine pouches as a safer alternative for people who already smoke, nonsmokers and young people are being drawn to them, a large-scale study found.
June 17, 2024
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes
June 17, 2024
Soaring temperatures in India's capital have proven to be too much for some courts and are putting to the test a law in place since 1961 that requires lawyers
June 17, 2024
Waterborne diseases are now a risk in Brazil's southernmost state, authorities say, as residents begin to return to flooded homes and clean up after
June 17, 2024
U.S. farmers will be able to test bulk supplies of milk from their dairy cows for bird flu rather than milk from individual cows before gaining approval to ship them
June 16, 2024
Anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using a range of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives that are intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall
June 16, 2024
A third U.S. dairy worker tested positive for bird flu after exposure to infected cows, and was the first to suffer respiratory problems,
June 16, 2024
The H5N1 bird flu virus has spread to dairy cows in the United States, raising concerns about its spread to humans.
June 16, 2024
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Sao Paulo as protests sweep across Brazil in opposition to a bill that would further criminalize abortions
June 15, 2024
A Missouri judge has rejected the argument that lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone” in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban
June 15, 2024
Dengue cases have substantially increased in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, which indicates the mosquito-borne viral illness remains a high-
June 15, 2024
Attorneys general across the U.S. have a new fight on their hands: protecting Americans from unproven and expensive stem cell treatments that salespeople claim can cure almost anything
June 15, 2024
A group of midwives who focus on traditional Native Hawaiian birth practices are trying to block a Hawaii law that requires midwives to obtain licenses
June 15, 2024
A lawsuit challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions lacks standing, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled on Friday
June 14, 2024
The water quality of the Seine river in Paris is raising concerns ahead of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games
June 14, 2024
One in four older adults in the U.S. fall each year, putting them at risk of injury, broken bones and even death
June 14, 2024
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, for now
June 14, 2024
With summer about to start, many people planning to flock to their favorite swimming holes may also want to read up on bacteria warnings
June 14, 2024
Scientists are trying to determine why bird flu kills some animals quickly but leads to mild illnesses in others
June 14, 2024
Your upper intestine is host to a distinct population of microbes that play a role in digestion, metabolism and immunity.
June 14, 2024
Kids most likely to wind up in the ER due to violence often have common early childhood experiences. Can schools use this information to prevent future injuries?
June 14, 2024
More than 30 countries condemned Israel's attacks on hospitals in Gaza and demanded more scrutiny of its role in the enclave's health crisis at a World Health
June 14, 2024
An Indiana doctor who is suing the state over its abortion ban on Wednesday told a state judge that the exception for medical emergencies was unclear, and could prevent
June 14, 2024
Shares of U.S. health insurers fell on Wednesday after UnitedHealth Group's chief executive said the company was keeping an eye on medical services used by
June 14, 2024
South Korea said on Thursday its medical schools will accept almost 1,500 additional students next year, pressing ahead with an admissions hike that has caused trainee
June 14, 2024
The World Health Organization's emergencies department is facing “existential threats” as multiplying health crises have left it so short of cash that it needed
June 14, 2024
The U.S. government is nearing an agreement to fund a late-stage trial of Moderna's mRNA bird flu vaccine, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, as the outbreak spreads in dairy cows.
June 14, 2024
The opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already facing other challenges.
June 13, 2024
Top executives at a California telemedicine company were arrested for allegedly distributing Adderall online and conspiring to commit health care fraud through reimbursements for the medication
June 13, 2024
Nicotine alternatives used in vapes being launched in the U.S. and abroad, such as 6-methyl nicotine, may be more potent and addictive than nicotine itself, though the
June 13, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint about the Abbott Nutrition factory at the center 2022's nationwide infant formula shortage
June 13, 2024
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S. abortions, though abortion opponents say the ruling won’t be the last word in the fight over mifepristone
June 13, 2024
Dozens of tourists say they became ill after visiting a popular Arizona tourist destination known for its towering blue-green waterfalls
June 13, 2024
A watchdog group says the Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies around the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio after independent testing found high levels of chemicals in locally grown garlic
June 13, 2024
An Army health official told a panel investigating a mass shooting by a reservist experiencing a psychiatric crisis that there are health care differences for Army reservists that could limit the flow of information to commanders
June 13, 2024
South African health authorities say two people have died this week after contracting mpox, and it appears there is local transmission of the disease
June 13, 2024
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means the abortion pill mifepristone remains available in the United States, even through the mail
June 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to mifepristone, the drug most commonly used in medication abortions
June 13, 2024
A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. last year
June 13, 2024
Greek authorities have closed down the Acropolis for much of the afternoon for a second day as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures
June 13, 2024
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments
June 13, 2024
For more than a decade, Sara Kemecsei’s animal shelter has cared for the stray dogs of the Georgian capital.
June 13, 2024
Western countries led by the United States, France and Germany pushed for a deal to bolster pandemic response rules at a major World Health Organization meeting on
June 13, 2024
A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday the last hospital in Rafah could stop functioning and a substantial number of deaths could be
June 13, 2024
Tens of millions of people living in coastal areas around the Caribbean and Latin America face imminent risks to healthcare and key infrastructure as climate change brings more severe
June 13, 2024
As millions seek access to weight-loss drugs from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, increasing supplies, possible wider usage and a growing number of would-be rivals are leading
June 13, 2024
China's flagship economic cooperation program is bouncing back after a lull during the global pandemic, with Africa a primary focus,
June 13, 2024
Merck & Co is nearing a $1.3 billion cash deal to buy ophthalmology biotechnology company Eyebiotech in an agreement that could see an additional $1.7 billion in milestone payments, the
June 13, 2024
Merck on Wednesday agreed to buy privately held biotech EyeBio for as much as $3 billion, as it looks to diversify its portfolio of experimental drugs with treatments
June 12, 2024
The top U.S. health official said on Wednesday it would be "tragic" for the world to miss out on key reforms to the global pandemic response and that a treaty deal was within reach,
June 12, 2024
Kristaps Porzingis did not play for the Boston Celtics in Game 3 of the NBA Finals because of a rare tendon injury in his lower left leg suffered in the previous game
June 12, 2024
Southern Baptists have expressed alarm over the way in vitro fertilization is routinely being practiced at their annual meeting in Indianapolis
June 12, 2024
A new report has for the first time found traces of highly potent opioids known as nitazenes in drugs consumed in Africa’s retail drug market
June 12, 2024
If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold
June 12, 2024
Green algae carry drug-loaded nanoparticles directly to the lungs, reducing side effects in other organs and increasing treatment efficiency.
June 12, 2024
Transplant organizations say a 98-year-old man may be the oldest American to ever donate an organ
June 12, 2024
Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over possible risks for “acute poisoning.”
June 12, 2024
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mexico City's then-Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of always donning a face mask and firmly recommending
June 12, 2024
Higher U.S. tariffs on medical gloves, syringes and face masks from China are unlikely to make U.S. producers more competitive,
June 12, 2024
The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk
June 12, 2024
The Louisiana Senate's vote on Thursday to reclassify the two drugs used in medication abortion as controlled substances marks the latest
June 12, 2024
Senators criticized top federal officials over the rise of illegal electronic cigarettes in the U.S., a multibillion-dollar business that has flourished in recent years
June 12, 2024
Detecting infectious agents in sewage is only the first step. Researchers are working on developing reliable ways to translate surveillance measurements to case numbers and infection predictions.
June 12, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday voiced confidence that countries would one day reach a deal on a pandemic accord
June 12, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to back out of a deal he made last year to pay doctors more money to treat Medicaid patients
June 12, 2024
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during some medical emergencies
June 11, 2024
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil after suffering a massive stroke a year ago
June 11, 2024
The Biden administration is pushing to prevent medical debt from being considered in most decisions made over whether someone qualifies to rent an apartment, buy a car or take on a mortgage
June 11, 2024
A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults
June 11, 2024
Common summer activities can expose you to a host of infectious diseases. But there are simple steps you can take to protect yourself from pathogens ranging from E. coli to T. gondii.
June 11, 2024
Tap water is just one of the ways people are exposed to PFAS.
June 11, 2024
The humanitarian organization Direct Relief is helping community health centers across the United States install rooftop solar and battery storage systems as they confront more frequent power outages from extreme weather and fickle grid systems
June 11, 2024
Scientists using new methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher than expected levels of the chemical in the air along a corridor in southeastern Louisiana
June 11, 2024
Novavax will only be able to offer a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States this autumn if regulators accept the shot it has started manufacturing that targets a variant
June 11, 2024
Advisers to the U.S. health regulator on Friday voted against the use of Novo Nordisk's weekly insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes due to risks of low
June 11, 2024
The U.S. has imposed import curbs on certain poultry and byproducts from Victoria, Australia after determining highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in domestic birds.
June 11, 2024
Louisiana's governor on Friday signed a bill making his state the first in the U.S. to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, a category that
June 11, 2024
At least 11 people have died of suspected heat-related causes in western India and Pakistan also sweltered on Friday in extreme heat, while parts of Bangladesh and
June 11, 2024
Novo Nordisk's Wegovy obesity drug reduced adverse kidney-related events by 22% in overweight and obese people in a large study, according to a new analysis the
June 11, 2024
As the U.S. dairy industry confronts an outbreak of bird flu, the egg industry serves as an example of how to slow the spread of the disease but also how difficult it can be to completely eradicate the problem
June 11, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning
June 10, 2024
The trendy prebiotic soda Poppi is under fire, facing accusations of false advertising regarding the gut health advantages it touts. According to Newsweek, the new class-action complaint filed in San Francisco directly targets Poppi, a celebrity-endorsed prebiotic soda that has seen meteoric growth among health-conscious buyers. The suit, recently filed in California, accuses Poppi of false advertising by grossly exaggerating the gut health advantages of its beverages. Poppi has branded itself as a “healthy” soda alternative, with catchphrases like “Be Gut Happy” and “Be Gut Healthy” adorning its cans. These drinks boast apple cider vinegar, fruit juice, and prebiotic fiber,
June 10, 2024
A man charged with killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2015 can be forced to take anti-psychotic medication in the
June 10, 2024
Federal health regulators and law enforcement officials are vowing to work more closely to stop sales of illegal electronic cigarettes, including those from China
June 10, 2024
(This May 23 story has been corrected to say Shield is meant for CRC screening, not diagnosis, in paragraph 4, and fix a typo in paragraph 7.)
June 10, 2024
The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to
June 10, 2024
A liberal judge who previously represented Planned Parenthood in a case related to abortion access has entered the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court
June 10, 2024
The Louisiana Senate gave final legislative approval on Thursday to a bill that would make the state the first in the U.S. to reclassify two abortion-
June 10, 2024
Haiti’s newly selected Prime Minister Garry Conille was discharged from a hospital after spending a night in treatment for an undisclosed condition
June 09, 2024
CVS Health Corp has been seeking a private equity partner to fund growth at Oak Street Health, a primary care provider it bought a year ago, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
June 09, 2024
Vaccination of boys and men against the human papillomavirus (HPV) reduces their risk of head and neck cancers and other malignancies, a new analysis shows, adding to the
June 09, 2024
Tobacco companies still actively target young people via social media, sports and music festivals and new, flavoured products, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday,
June 09, 2024
Britain's proposed law to ban smoking for younger generations could be shelved after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a surprise election, putting one of his flagship policies in
June 09, 2024
Gaza's Health Ministry says at least 274 Palestinians, including dozens of children, were killed in the Israeli air and ground raid that rescued four hostages held by Hamas
June 09, 2024
Haiti's government says the country's newly selected prime minister has been hospitalized in the capital of Port-au-Prince
June 08, 2024
Authorities are warning of shark dangers this weekend along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where three people were hurt in two separate shark attacks
June 08, 2024
Medtronic beat estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, helped by robust sales of its medical devices, but shares declined more than
June 08, 2024
Pope Francis praised natural beauty that has not been cosmetically enhanced while meeting plastic surgeons during an audience hosted on Thursday in the Vatican.
June 07, 2024
A jury has convicted five Minnesota residents and acquitted two others in a scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to steal more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children
June 07, 2024
The Associated Press analyzed the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war using data provided by the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip
June 07, 2024
The Israel-Hamas war appears to have become much less deadly for Palestinian women and children, according to an AP analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data
June 07, 2024
A group of cancer victims sued Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday, accusing the healthcare company of committing fraud through repeated and continued efforts to use
June 07, 2024
More than 140 passengers and crew from a Singapore Airlines flight on which one person died during heavy turbulence finally
June 07, 2024
A judge in Hawaii on Tuesday ordered Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi to pay more than $916 million to the state for failing to warn non-white patients of health risks
June 07, 2024
A second human case of bird flu was confirmed in a dairy worker in Michigan, U.S. government officials said, expanding the impact of the H5N1 outbreak, which
June 07, 2024
A second human case of bird flu has been confirmed in the United States since the virus was first detected in dairy
June 07, 2024
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer on Wednesday launched a new multi-year program to reduce its expenses by about $1.5 billion by the end of 2027, adding on to a $4 billion cost cutting plan it
June 07, 2024
Gov. Andy Beshear says drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023
June 06, 2024
Experts say the mysterious death of a man in Mexico who had one kind of bird flu is unrelated to outbreaks of another bird flu at U.S. dairy farms
June 06, 2024
New York's highest court on Tuesday ruled that employers' health insurance plans have to cover medically necessary abortions, rejecting a lawsuit by the Roman Catholic
June 06, 2024
Increased mistrust of the US medical profession and higher mortality rates are two consequences of the lack of Black doctors.
June 06, 2024
A former 911 dispatcher in Pennsylvania is no longer facing prosecution for involuntary manslaughter based on allegations he failed to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who was found dead a day later of internal bleeding
June 06, 2024
The Supreme Court is siding with Native American tribes who said they faced increased costs after taking over management of their own health care programs from the federal government
June 06, 2024
It’s hard to start living on your own after turning 18 and aging out of foster care.
June 06, 2024
Biogen said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy privately held Human Immunology Biosciences for up to $1.8 billion, bulking up on rare disease medicines as its older multiple sclerosis drugs
June 06, 2024
A report by the U.N. children's agency says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty
June 06, 2024
Palestinian health officials say an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza killed at least 33 people including 12 women and children
June 06, 2024
Britain said on Tuesday some victims of a contaminated blood scandal would receive interim payments of 210,000 pounds ($267,000) each before a scheme to pay "
June 05, 2024
French drugmaker Sanofi on Tuesday announced it is collaborating with artificial intelligence company OpenAI and Formation Bio to boost its drug development projects through the use of
June 05, 2024
Abortion providers in Kansas are asking a state court to block a new law requiring them to report patients' reasons for getting abortions to state authorities.
June 05, 2024
Donald Trump said on Tuesday he does not support a ban on birth control, after coming under fire for comments he made earlier in the day that political
June 05, 2024
Attacks on medics and health facilities in war zones jumped in 2023 to the highest level since records began 11 years ago, a group of non-governmental organisations said on
June 05, 2024
Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall
June 05, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday for Israel to lift restrictions on aid into Gaza, saying that the primary pipeline for emergency medical aid into
June 05, 2024
Cucumbers contaminated with salmonella bacteria may have sickened and hospitalized dozens of people in at least 25 states
June 05, 2024
The Japanese government data shows the country's birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023
June 05, 2024
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made reassuring comments about King Salman's health during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday after the royal court said on Sunday the
June 05, 2024
JPMorgan Chase's top executives emphasized on Monday the importance of employee health in response to a question about the effect of high-pressure
June 05, 2024
Eli Lilly said on Tuesday its diabetes drug tirzepatide has received approval from Chinese regulators, setting up intensifying competition with its Danish rival Novo Nordisk in the
June 05, 2024
Colorado’s governor signed two new bills enforcing stricter requirements for the state’s funeral homes and staff after cases of mishandling human remains.
June 05, 2024
A risk expert explains how to read the heat index and interpret extreme heat warnings, and how to stay safe.
June 05, 2024
Drinking alcohol is normalized in American society. But the ubiquity of alcohol consumption hides its serious health risks, including cancer.
June 05, 2024
When faced with infertility, Christians who believe life begins at or around conception must wrestle with weighty questions: How do you build a family in a way that conforms with your beliefs
June 05, 2024
United Nations agencies are warning that over 1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue
June 05, 2024
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico underwent a follow-up abdominal CT scan and remains conscious and communicative, doctors treating him said on Tuesday, as he recovers from being hit by
June 05, 2024
The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwestern U.S. with triple-digit temperatures as Phoenix firefighters employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives
June 05, 2024
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception
June 05, 2024
The damaging consequences of social media are increasingly well documented, so some parents are trying to raise their children with restrictions or blanket bans on social media use
June 05, 2024
GSK has been sued by an independent Connecticut laboratory that accused the drugmaker of defrauding the U.S. government and taxpayers by concealing cancer risks in
June 04, 2024
Hedge fund Shah Capital said on Monday it would withdraw its campaign against the re-election of three directors on Novavax's board, after the COVID-19 vaccine maker struck a licensing deal
June 04, 2024
Peloton Interactive said on Monday it was looking to refinance its debt, as the fitness equipment maker seeks to regain its footing amid falling sales due to uncertain demand.
June 04, 2024
A federal judge has permanently blocked some efforts in North Carolina to restrict how abortion pills can be dispensed
June 04, 2024
A new report by an independent group of experts says it's possible that famine is underway in northern Gaza, but that the war between Israel and Hamas and restrictions on humanitarian access have impeded data collection to prove it
June 04, 2024
An infected blood scandal in Britain was no accident but the fault of doctors and a succession of governments that led to 3,000 deaths and thousands more contracting
June 04, 2024
Halsey has been privately battling illness
June 04, 2024
Canada on Friday ordered some petrochemical plants in Ontario to take strict measures to control pollution from cancer-causing chemical benzene after release from a
June 04, 2024
U.S. health officials now recommend that some people consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases
June 04, 2024
Federal health advisers have rejected the first-ever proposal to use MDMA as a treatment for PTSD
June 04, 2024
Authorities say a Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home was actually still alive
June 04, 2024
Specially trained service dogs helped ease PTSD symptoms in U.S. military veterans in a small study that the researchers hope will help expand options for service members
June 04, 2024
Rural pharmacies can be a touchstone for their communities
June 04, 2024
An Associated Press analysis of licensing data from 44 states, data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs and the American Community Survey shows residents of neighborhoods that are majority Black and Latino have fewer pharmacies per capita than people who live in mostly white neighborhoods
June 04, 2024
How and why preterm birth happens is still unclear, in part because research on pregnancy tends to focus on developmental biology.
June 04, 2024
Because public access TV was relatively unregulated, shows could talk about sexual health and air racier segments that would have otherwise been censored on broadcast networks.
June 04, 2024
Saudi King Salman will undergo treatment at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah for a lung inflammation, the state news agency said on Sunday, hours after he underwent medical tests.
June 04, 2024
A guideline for U.S. doctors to ignore race in assessing lung health will likely have profound effects beyond the intended improvements in medical care, such as increasing
June 04, 2024
Iran on Saturday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions.
June 04, 2024
Hundreds of protesters in Peru's capital marched on Friday to demand the scrapping of a new law that describes transgender people, among others, as having a mental illness so they can
June 03, 2024
Senate Democrats are making a renewed push to show their support for ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization
June 03, 2024
Popular soda brand Poppi is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by a consumer who says its products don’t improve gut health as much as their marketing suggests
June 03, 2024
Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason
June 03, 2024
For at least some residents, Atlanta’s water problems aren't over
June 03, 2024
Patients can now see a growing array of doctors without leaving their living room recliner thanks to telemedicine
June 03, 2024
Dr_ Anthony Fauci was back before Congress, calling Republican allegations that he’d tried to cover up COVID-19's origins “simply preposterous.”
June 03, 2024
A group of U.S. medical workers left the Gaza Strip after getting stuck at the hospital where they were providing care, the White House said on Friday.
June 03, 2024
Biopharmaceutical company Rapport Therapeutics, backed by the venture capital arm of Johnson & Johnson, filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Friday.
June 03, 2024
Urban and rural communities have come to depend on pharmacies as a trusted care option and a place for advice
June 03, 2024
Many prenatal supplements don’t have enough folate, choline and omega-3 fatty acids.
June 03, 2024
Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment
June 03, 2024
Pakistani police say gunmen opened fire on polio workers in the country's northwest, killing a police officer assigned to protect them
June 03, 2024
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico underwent a two-hour operation on Friday that have increased hopes for his recovery, a deputy
June 03, 2024
Americans are divided on whether women should have to see a doctor in person before receiving abortion pills, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found,
June 03, 2024
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and is currently working from home, a Fed spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
June 03, 2024
Rob Burrow, a former rugby star who was widely praised for his fundraising and awareness campaigns after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2019, has died
June 02, 2024
Catching the right amount of sleep is no easy task in Grand Slam tennis these days — for the athletes or those watching them compete
June 02, 2024
Scaling back treatment for some cancers can make life easier for patients without hurting the outcomes
June 02, 2024
Oregon authorities have closed the state's entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an outbreak of shellfish poisoning they described as “unprecedented.”
June 01, 2024
The World Health Organization says member countries approved new steps to boost global preparedness for pandemics like COVID-19 and mpox and better respond to dangerous outbreaks
June 01, 2024
Gymnast Skye Blakely says working on her mental health has helped put her in the mix for the 2024 Olympics
June 01, 2024
Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert
June 01, 2024
Catcher Payton Henry of the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons has been released from the hospital a day after he was struck by a batter’s backswing and carted off the field on a stretcher
June 01, 2024
U.S. health officials are warning parents to avoid a brand of powdered infant formula sold by a Texas dairy producer that may contain a dangerous bacteria
May 31, 2024
Health care delivery experts say patients in the U.S. need more help dealing with a system that is growing increasingly complex
May 31, 2024
Soccer’s international governing body is introducing new measures designed to further support the well-being of players and coaches during pregnancy and after the birth of their children
May 31, 2024
The bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows is prompting development of new, next-generation mRNA vaccines — akin to the shots deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic
May 31, 2024
Doctors say a woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ
May 31, 2024
Intermittent fasting, where people eat what they want, but only during certain daily windows of time, has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years
May 31, 2024
A North Carolina aquarium said in February that a stingray became pregnant with no male companion in its tank and now says the fish has a rare reproductive disease
May 31, 2024
Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people
May 31, 2024
Federal health regulators are set to review the first request to approve the mind-altering club drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD
May 31, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications
May 31, 2024
Officials in India say a scorching heat wave has killed at least 14 people, including 10 election officials, with temperatures soaring up to 49.9 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of the country this week
May 31, 2024
Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it would acquire Proteologix for $850 million in cash, as it looks to gain access to the privately held company's experimental atopic dermatitis
May 31, 2024
Online advertising featuring bright colors, cartoon figures and promotions by social media influencers entice adolescents to try tobacco.
May 31, 2024
Pfizer will pay up to $250 million to settle more than 10,000 U.S. lawsuits over cancer risks associated with its discontinued heartburn drug Zantac, the Financial Times reported on
May 31, 2024
Before a medical caravan organised by Romania's hard-right opposition AUR party drove up to her village in April, Florina Purcareanu had not had a blood test
May 31, 2024
Dozens of Thai cannabis advocates urged the government on Thursday to abandon its plans to re-list marijuana as an illegal narcotic, a week after it announced its dramatic policy U
May 31, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for his proposal to eliminate an optional Medicaid benefit for some disabled immigrants
May 31, 2024
Ronald Acuña Jr. is emboldened at the start of his journey through a second major knee surgery and recovery by the knowledge he enjoyed such a successful comeback from his first procedure
May 30, 2024
Reports of a rare nervous system disorder are “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults who got the new RSV vaccines
May 30, 2024
Eisai and partner Biogen said on Tuesday that the Japanese drugmaker has begun submitting data on a rolling basis to the US health regulator for a marketing application of a subcutaneous
May 30, 2024
The number of deaths from drug overdose fell 3% to 107,543 in 2023 from the previous year, according to preliminary data from the U.S.
May 30, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law on Wednesday a bill that aims to provide universal health coverage, hailing it as a
May 30, 2024
Ni'ma Ali Imad is desperate to get her wounded son Mohammed out of Gaza for the medical treatment that doctors say they cannot provide in the
May 30, 2024
Medical supply company Medline Industries is recalling some 1.5 million portable adult bed rails across the U.S. and Canada
May 30, 2024
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has asked state forces and combatants to respect its neutrality and work of delivering urgent humanitarian help to the most destitute in war zones, saying 24 of its aid workers have been killed this year mostly in the Gaza Strip
May 30, 2024
Some of the ads promise that you can throw away your glasses. But what does the evidence say?
May 30, 2024
Novo Nordisk does not expect a shortage of its Wegovy weight-loss drug in Denmark despite an earlier warning by the Danish Medicines Agency of strained supply of two separate
May 30, 2024
New Zealand's food safety regulator on Wednesday said it is investigating possible contamination in spice products of top Indian brands MDH and Everest after
May 30, 2024
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu called on the World Health Organization on Wednesday to allow the island to attend all its meetings if it is serious about its goal of "Health for
May 30, 2024
The state of Michigan says it’s willing to step in and oversee property repairs at 1,900 homes in Flint
May 29, 2024
A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as “genocide” during a speech accepting an award
May 29, 2024
U.S. government officials have temporarily relaxed strict guidelines on how public health laboratories and healthcare facilities handle, store and transport
May 29, 2024
Heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico have been recorded in a total of four states, environmental authorities said
May 29, 2024
Tennessee's governor has approved legislation designed to block adults from helping minors get an abortion or receive gender-affirming care without parental consent
May 29, 2024
Germany has scrapped a requirement for its military servicepeople to be vaccinated against COVID-19
May 29, 2024
About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan are forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024
May 29, 2024
You’ve probably seen the viral TikTok videos – teens suddenly shouting offensive words or making strange motions and movements. These tics and Tourette disease symptoms seem to be spreading among young people like an epidemic transmitted through social media. Doctors around the world are reporting a disturbing new trend – teenagers, especially girls, developing sudden, severe tics and Tourette-like symptoms after viewing videos of influencers with the disorder on platforms like TikTok. John Hopkins University Tourette’s Center reported the percentage of pediatric patients with acute tic-like behaviors skyrocketed from 2-3% before the pandemic to 10-20% recently. According to a Wall
May 29, 2024
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Stetson Bennett says he stepped away from football last year to address his mental health
May 29, 2024
The International Red Cross and partners are opening a field hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday to try to meet what it described as "overwhelming" demand for health services since
May 29, 2024
The World Health Organization voiced full confidence in Gaza Ministry of Health death toll figures on Tuesday, saying they were actually getting closer to confirming
May 29, 2024
The U.S. pot sector could see an influx of medical research funding from healthcare investors amid renewed interest from pharmaceutical firms, should a proposal to
May 29, 2024
Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from
May 29, 2024
More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at a large egg farm
May 28, 2024
Wayne State University in Detroit has suspended in-person classes and encouraged staff to work remotely
May 28, 2024
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
May 28, 2024
Melinda French Gates says she will be donating $1 billion over the next two years to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States
May 28, 2024
Authorities in China were expected on Monday to release a citizen journalist jailed for four years after she documented the early phases of the coronavirus outbreak from the central city
May 28, 2024
Tylenol maker Kenvue said on Monday that Johnson & Johnson will sell its remaining 9.5% stake in the company, about a year after the healthcare conglomerate spun off and listed its consumer
May 28, 2024
Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign to help safeguard its population against the mosquito-borne disease that has long posed a threat
May 28, 2024
Officials in America’s hottest big metro are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting the triple digits this spring
May 28, 2024
The victims of last summer's staggering 31-day streak of daily temperatures reaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit and over were old and young, male and female, homeless and well-to-do, Black, white, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American
May 28, 2024
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster
May 28, 2024
Mike Tyson is recovering after falling ill during a weekend flight from Miami to Los Angeles
May 27, 2024
The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, with a tragically small number of the primates treated or recovering
May 27, 2024
Leading healthcare companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca announced on Sunday new investments in France worth a total of nearly $1 billion, ahead of the start of this year's annual 'Choose
May 27, 2024
Popular Indian spice brand MDH, under scrutiny for alleged contamination in some products, has since 2021 seen an average 14.5% of its U.S. shipments
May 27, 2024
Japan's Shionogi & Co said on Monday its pill-based treatment for COVID-19 did not meet the primary endpoint of showing a statistically significant reduction of 15 common symptoms of
May 27, 2024
The World Health Organization is beginning its annual meeting with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic in the devastating wake of COVID-19
May 27, 2024
The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among dairy cows, in the government's latest bid to
May 27, 2024
A former owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly U.S. fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced on Friday to at least
May 27, 2024
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were greeted with wild cheers, song and dance as they visited a school to talk about mental health in
May 27, 2024
Final testing of U.S. retail dairy samples came back negative for viable H5N1 bird flu virus, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
May 26, 2024
Grayson Murray’s parents say their 30-year-old son took his own life
May 26, 2024
Palestinian health workers say Israeli attacks have killed at least 35 people and hit tents for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
May 26, 2024
The Biden administration is expected to issue new tariffs on Chinese-made medical devices like syringes and personal protective equipment when it
May 26, 2024
Extreme heat: Tracking temperatures and risks across the US this summer
May 26, 2024
Britain's Prince William said on Friday his wife Kate was "doing well" in a rare public comment about the Princess of Wales as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy for cancer.
May 26, 2024
Experts say planning before a tornado threatens is key for staying safe
May 25, 2024
Pope Francis criticised the weapons and contraceptive industries on Friday, accusing them of destroying or preventing life in his speech at a conference on the
May 25, 2024
Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close and
May 25, 2024
Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention in Washington, with many in the crowd shouting insults during his speech and decrying him for running up towering federal deficits and enriching pharmaceutical companies with the COVID-19 vaccine development
May 25, 2024
Bird flu has been detected in beef for the first time, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat from a single sickened dairy cow was not allowed to enter the nation's food supply and beef remains safe to eat
May 24, 2024
A woman is seeking answers after the sick dog she took to a shelter to have euthanized turned up more than a year later on a rescue adoption site
May 24, 2024
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a first-of-its-kind bill to classify two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances
May 24, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has undergone a medical procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and has resumed duty after temporarily transferring power
May 24, 2024
The legislation would make it illegal to possess 2 types of abortion pills without a prescription.
May 24, 2024
A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic
May 24, 2024
New York City was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday claiming it discriminates against gay male city employees by only covering the costs of in vitro fertilization for women
May 24, 2024
Eli Lilly will spend more than $5 billion to expand an Indiana manufacturing site and eventually make more doses of its hot-selling weight-loss and diabetes treatments, Zepbound and Mounjaro
May 24, 2024
Despite growing demand for long-term care, the industry struggles with labor shortages, and experts worry about whether there will be enough workers in the future to care for America’s aging population
May 24, 2024
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died of cancer
May 24, 2024
Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific name: zoopharmacognosy.
May 24, 2024
U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to ensure that genetic resources used in inventions, like new medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, are properly traced
May 24, 2024
Protesters on Thursday heckled Italy's family minister over her critical position on abortion rights, forcing her to abandon a speech at a conference on reversing the
May 24, 2024
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said it was set to launch its long
May 24, 2024
Investment bank Lazard Ltd has appointed veteran healthcare dealmaker Michele Colocci as vice chairman and managing director, aiming to boost the growth of its
May 24, 2024
Pfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits about cancer risks related to the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar
May 23, 2024
Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom
May 23, 2024
New research suggests the HPV vaccine is preventing cancers in men, as well as in women
May 23, 2024
Louisiana lawmakers have approved a first-of-its-kind bill that would classify two abortion-inducing drugs as a controlled and dangerous substances
May 23, 2024
Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the US South has left millions sweltering, strained energy grids and resulted in iconic Howler monkeys in Mexico dropping dead from trees
May 23, 2024
The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency
May 23, 2024
Many Americans are unprepared for what can be an emotional, costly and guilt-inducing process of finding long-term care for a loved one
May 23, 2024
Thousands of older Americans are in adult day services that provide safe, stimulating places for those who have physical or cognitive disabilities and also give respite to their caregiver
May 23, 2024
Nearly half of Americans over 65 will pay for some version of long-term health care, the landscape of which is quickly transitioning away from nursing homes and toward community living situations
May 23, 2024
Nearly half of Americans over 65 will pay for some version of long-term health care, the landscape of which is quickly transitioning away from nursing homes and toward community living situations
May 23, 2024
The Health Ministry in Gaza says the largest hospital serving the territory's center faces imminent shutdown
May 23, 2024
Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. have been knocking down efforts by Democrats to ensure access to various forms of birth control
May 23, 2024
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic.
May 22, 2024
There is only enough fuel to run health services in the south of Gaza for three more days, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
May 22, 2024
The main maternity hospital in the Gaza Strip's crowded southern city of Rafah has stopped admitting patients, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said on
May 22, 2024
Britain is refusing to sign the World Health Organization's (WHO) pandemic accord because the country says it would have to give away a fifth of its vaccines, the Telegraph reported on
May 22, 2024
Texas’ health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a state committee that reviews pregnancy-related deaths
May 22, 2024
The U.N. World Food Program says it's handed out in Gaza the first small amounts of aid that arrived from a U.S.-built pier in the territory
May 22, 2024
The Supreme Court's decision regarding Idaho's abortion ban may hinge on whether federal spending power can protect doctors against a state's criminal code
May 22, 2024
A Michigan farmworker has been diagnosed with bird flu in what is the second human case associated with an outbreak in U.S. dairy cows
May 22, 2024
Health officials in Brazil say the first two deaths from waterborne bacterial disease have been reported in the country's south, where floodwaters are slowly receding
May 22, 2024
Tennessee will soon become the first state in the country to offer free diapers to families enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program after receiving federal approval, state officials have confirmed
May 22, 2024
Use of diabetes and obesity medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and other so-called GLP-1 drugs has soared among teens and young adults
May 22, 2024
A lawyer for the state of Idaho on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to revive a 2023 state law making it a crime to help a minor cross state lines for an abortion
May 22, 2024
Millions of people in the U.S. report using marijuana daily or nearly every day, and those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or nearly-daily drinkers of alcohol
May 22, 2024
Older adults face greater health risks from extreme heat for several reasons. Communities can save lives by starting to make changes now.
May 22, 2024
Suicide among military service members in the US is a growing problem. A lack of a sense of belonging and feeling like a burden are key risk factors.
May 22, 2024
A Philadelphia neighborhood is pushing back against the city’s plan to expand an existing shelter to serve people in active addiction.
May 22, 2024
The Czech Constitutional Court has struck down a legal requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery before they are able to officially complete their transition, the court
May 22, 2024
Fearful medics and patients are fleeing a hospital in Rafah and transfers of the sick and injured via a border crossing with Egypt are at a standstill due to
May 22, 2024
A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million in connection with two explosions that injured workers and caused the evacuation of thousands
May 21, 2024
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has toured the Houston area to assess the damage from last week’s deadly storms
May 21, 2024
The death of a British man and injuries impacting dozens of other people aboard a Singapore Airlines flight have highlighted the potential dangers of flying through extreme turbulence
May 21, 2024
BEIJING (REUTERS) - China lifted the risk alert warning on bird flu in Serbia, the General Administration of Customs announced on Tuesday.
May 21, 2024
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
May 21, 2024
An Indian state has accused yoga guru Baba Ramdev of criminal misconduct for promoting his traditional ayurvedic medicine as a cure for COVID-19 because it
May 21, 2024
New York's high court has upheld a rule requiring companies with health insurance plans to cover medically necessary abortions
May 21, 2024
The issue of abortion will be before voters in at least four states this year, and possibly more
May 21, 2024
Britain's government says thousands of victims of the U.K.’s infected blood scandal will start receiving their final compensation payments this year
May 21, 2024
New York state's top prosecutor on Monday sued Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion group, and 11 crisis pregnancy centers, accusing them of misleading and
May 21, 2024
Brazil's former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is traveling to Sao Paulo on Monday for treatment of an intestinal obstruction and a bout of erysipelas, a bacterial skin
May 21, 2024
Vertex Pharmaceuticals beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Monday, driven by robust uptake for its blockbuster cystic fibrosis treatments.
May 21, 2024
Caitlin Clark returned for the start of the second half of the Indiana Fever's game against the Connecticut Sun after what appeared to be an injured lower left leg in the first half Monday night
May 20, 2024
Abortion access advocates in Nevada say they have submitted almost twice the number of petition signatures needed to qualify a measure for the November ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution
May 20, 2024
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalized again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there
May 20, 2024
Hard water might dry out your hair and skin − but having hard water isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
May 20, 2024
An inquiry has found that British authorities and the public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products and hid the truth about the disaster for decades
May 20, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration will allow certain immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children access to federally run health insurance, the White
May 20, 2024
Amneal Pharmaceuticals said on Friday it had reached a deal valued at more than $270 million to resolve claims it helped fuel the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic, becoming the
May 20, 2024
Aetna will pay $2 million and update its coverage policies to settle a lawsuit claiming the health insurer required LGBTQ beneficiaries to pay more out of pocket for
May 20, 2024
The Texas dairy farm worker infected with H5N1 bird flu was not wearing respiratory or eye protection and had been exposed to cattle that appeared to have the
May 20, 2024
After one North Carolina city's only hospital closed, residents there say they're not only worried about their health but they've lost trust in politicians
May 20, 2024
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday that people should avoid exposures to sick or dead animals suspected to be infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus.
May 20, 2024
The head of the World Health Organization on Friday urged countries to agree to an accord to help fight future pandemics as negotiations approach a deadline this month.
May 19, 2024
Amgen shares headed for their best session since 2009 on Friday after the U.S. drugmaker hinted at encouraging interim trial data on its experimental
May 19, 2024
Illumina reiterated its 2024 revenue forecast on Thursday, expecting continued weak demand from its customers such as medical research labs and hospitals.
May 19, 2024
Shares in Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk dropped as much as 5.3% on Friday, set for their biggest one-day fall since August 2022, after rival Amgen said it was encouraged by interim trial
May 19, 2024
The final report of the U.K.’s infected blood inquiry has been published, six years after it started its work
May 19, 2024
A judge's decision in a lawsuit against Ohio’s ban on most abortions could be near
May 19, 2024
Most residents near a scenic fishing village in southwestern England were told their tap water is safe to drink again after a parasite sickened more than 45 people
May 18, 2024
The Arizona Senate voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's 1864 ban on abortion, which could otherwise have taken effect within weeks.
May 18, 2024
Novo Nordisk raised its 2024 outlook on Thursday as the Danish drugmaker races to boost output of its Wegovy weight-loss treatment, while
May 17, 2024
Bird flu likely circulated in U.S. dairy cows on a limited basis for about four months before federal officials confirmed the disease that has
May 17, 2024
A fall trial has been set for a pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents
May 17, 2024
Amgen on Thursday said it was very encouraged after completing an interim analysis of its mid-stage study of experimental weight-loss drug MariTide and will no longer
May 17, 2024
A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law
May 17, 2024
U.S. sellers of raw milk appear undeterred by federal health warnings for consumers to avoid drinking
May 17, 2024
Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever
May 17, 2024
A scenic fishing village in southwestern England is on its third day under instructions to boil its tap water after a parasite sickened more than 45 people
May 17, 2024
Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy, who was tasked in early 2022 to stem the fitness equipment maker's slide in sales from the pandemic highs, has quit as the company announced job
May 17, 2024
U.S. drugmaker Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday, hurt by softer sales of its blockbuster eye drug Eylea due to reduction in
May 17, 2024
U.S. attorneys for a woman who claims her colon cancer was caused by the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac on Thursday told a jury in Chicago that pharmaceutical
May 17, 2024
Before World War II, pathogens in milk accounted for 1 in 4 cases of foodborne diseases in the US. Pasteurization reduced this figure to less than 1%.
May 17, 2024
Numerous bats have been found in Colorado with white-nose syndrome. The fungus has killed millions of bats in North America, leaving biologists concerned about its impact on bats in the state.
May 17, 2024
The Justice Department has formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy
May 16, 2024
Sen. Bob Menendez says his wife has breast cancer and will require a mastectomy, a revelation made just as the presentation of evidence began at his New York bribery trial
May 16, 2024
Hackers who breached UnitedHealth's tech unit in February potentially stole a third of Americans' data, the largest U.S. health insurer's
May 16, 2024
Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it is moving forward with a $6.48 billion proposed settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that
May 16, 2024
A federal judge has struck down parts of a North Carolina law restricting patients' access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which has become the subject of legal
May 16, 2024
It will be hard for Taiwan to attend this year's World Health Organization annual assembly, and it hopes more countries will support its presence, the island's
May 16, 2024
Medtech firm Zimmer Biomet Holdings beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday, on the back of robust demand for its devices that are used in knee and hip
May 16, 2024
An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says his death was caused by eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract
May 16, 2024
Defending champion Rose Zhang withdrew from the Mizuho Americas Open because of illness after completing only three holes of the opening round
May 16, 2024
Amgen investors eyeing dramatic share price gains for rivals with successful obesity drugs will be focused on any updates the biotech company may provide on its own weight-
May 16, 2024
Students in windowless rooms are reporting anxiety, depression and fatigue. A professor of architecture says developers need to let the light shine in.
May 16, 2024
In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues
May 16, 2024
Dozens of pro-cannabis advocates in Thailand gathered at the health ministry on Thursday to oppose the government’s plan to relist it as narcotics, two years after it was decriminalized
May 16, 2024
A South Korean court has ruled in favor of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions
May 16, 2024
Consumer healthcare company Haleon reported first-quarter revenue slightly below market estimates on Wednesday, as volumes declined due to retailer destocking in U.S. and cooling demand for
May 16, 2024
GSK raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday on strong demand for its common respiratory vaccine and specialty HIV medicines, though it expects sales
May 16, 2024
A U.S. vascular surgeon who left Gaza after a stint as a volunteer said nothing had prepared him for the scale of injuries he had faced there.
May 16, 2024
A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on Maui has found that up to 74% of participants may have difficulty breathing and otherwise have poor respiratory health
May 16, 2024
A new abortion clinic is going to open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the state’s role as a regional hub for reproductive health services since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
May 15, 2024
The first trial over claims that blockbuster heartburn drug Zantac, once sold by GSK and other companies, causes cancer is set to begin this week in Chicago.
May 15, 2024
Explosive demand and increased manufacturing capacity for Eli Lilly's weight-loss drug Zepbound drove the company to raise its annual sales forecast by
May 15, 2024
There is a risk that the H5N1 bird flu virus, present in many wild birds, may infect cows in countries beyond the United States as they migrate, a World Health Organization official
May 15, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to make marijuana use a less serious crime, taking a step to reclassify the drug out of a category that includes heroin.
May 15, 2024
A smiling and healthy-looking King Charles returned to public duties on Tuesday for the first time since he was diagnosed with cancer in February, telling patients at a treatment
May 15, 2024
The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year
May 15, 2024
Among her 5 decades of accomplishments, Nightingale founded the world’s first nursing school and advocated health care for all.
May 15, 2024
GE HealthCare Technologies missed first-quarter revenue estimates on Tuesday, hurt by lower sales in China market and weaker-than-expected demand for its scanning devices, sending its
May 15, 2024
The World Health Organization has authorized a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide against the mosquito-borne disease that has already sparked numerous outbreaks across the Americas this year
May 15, 2024
Florida's ban on abortions past six weeks of pregnancy takes effect this week, threatening the future of the state's clinics and abortion funds and
May 15, 2024
More than 34,535 Palestinians have been killed and 77,704 wounded in the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 last year, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday
May 15, 2024
Australia's food safety agency is collecting information on the possible contamination of spice mixes sold by Indian companies MDH and
May 15, 2024
A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a challenge by Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson to a law requiring them to negotiate the prices of their blockbuster blood clot
May 14, 2024
Bronny James says he's “grateful for everything” with his NBA dream in reach after a major health scare last summer
May 14, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state will make $3.3 billion available by July for counties and private developers to start building more behavior health treatment centers
May 14, 2024
Health insurance plans run by U.S. states must cover gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
May 14, 2024
The U.S. government said on Monday it is collecting samples of ground beef at retail stores in states with outbreaks of bird flu in dairy cows for testing, but
May 14, 2024
Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw
May 14, 2024
Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former president and one of Latin America's best-known leaders, announced a cancer diagnosis on Monday that doctors say will be
May 14, 2024
A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after six months at a Chicago area hospital
May 14, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday tightened regulations for clinical laboratories with a new rule that gives it more oversight of diagnostic tests developed by them.
May 14, 2024
An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison
May 14, 2024
States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.
May 14, 2024
Storms that slammed several Southern states have added to the region’s recent string of weather-related destruction and death
May 14, 2024
Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite an outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows
May 14, 2024
As AI moves into medicine, perhaps no one has more to gain or lose than radiologists, the doctors who review medical scans for signs of cancer and other diseases
May 14, 2024
A new survey says medical providers were prescribing abortion pills to about 8,000 women a month in states with abortion bans or bans on telehealth abortions by the end of 2023
May 14, 2024
Most Americans surveyed did not know how pregnancies are dated or how long a trimester is – but this is especially true among some groups, like people who say they support six-week abortion bans.
May 14, 2024
The Philippines has closed schools down and warned of overloading on its power grid, as authorities across Southeast Asia issued a series of health alerts for
May 14, 2024
Asthma attacks can result from immune cells overreacting to a harmless allergen. Tamping down iron levels in certain immune cells can help control their activity.
May 14, 2024
Success in the fight to wipe out polio is not guaranteed, according to tech billionaire turned philanthropist Bill Gates, whose foundation has poured billions into
May 14, 2024
Sweltering heat in the Philippines can curb farm production,
May 14, 2024
Britain is considering making changes to disability and mental health benefit payments as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aims to slow the rise in the government's welfare bill and get
May 14, 2024
Child care has long been expensive for families, hard to find and financially precarious for day care owners and workers
May 14, 2024
Phoenix Mercury All-Star center Brittney Griner has a fractured toe in her left foot, which will cause her to miss an undisclosed amount of time
May 13, 2024
Violence against women is an "epidemic" in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday, as thousands attended rallies in Sydney and other major Australian cities
May 13, 2024
The Canadian province of British Columbia on Friday scrapped a much-criticized pilot program that allowed the open use of some illegal drugs, citing the need to maintain public
May 13, 2024
The Biden administration on Friday delayed its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a move that reflected the potential for a political backlash from Black voters in an
May 13, 2024
Additional tests of milk showed that pasteurization killed the bird flu virus, federal health officials said on Friday, as Colorado became the ninth U.S.
May 13, 2024
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest for a second straight year
May 13, 2024
Staff at CVS Health's unit Omnicare in Las Vegas voted to join the Pharmacy Guild, becoming the first location at the national pharmacy chain to join the union.
May 13, 2024
Britain's King Charles will return to public duties next week for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer as he makes good progress following treatment and
May 13, 2024
AbbVie expects a drop in sales volumes of its blockbuster arthritis drug Humira to deepen after recent changes by U.S. pharmacy benefit managers and as
May 13, 2024
Singer Amy Winehouse died from alcohol toxicity in 2011, the same year that the American Society of Addiction Medicine publicly recognized addiction as a brain disorder.
May 13, 2024
Britain's King Charles will return to public duties on April 30 following nearly three months of treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
May 13, 2024
The current overall public health risk posed by the H5N1 bird flu virus is low, the World Health Organization said on Friday, but urged countries to stay alert for cases of animal-to-human
May 13, 2024
Hospitals in South Korea's smaller cities are struggling with a lack of physicians, as a nationwide strike of trainee doctors enters its
May 13, 2024
Violence is traumatizing Haitian children
May 13, 2024
Cigna plans to make close copies of AbbVie's blockbuster arthritis drug Humira available with no out-of-pocket payment to eligible patients in the U.S.
May 12, 2024
Local governments across the country are receiving money from opioid settlements, but not all of them know how to use it
May 12, 2024
The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure
May 12, 2024
The women's section of Rikers Island is getting a redesigned and more kid-friendly visitation room ahead of Mother's Day
May 11, 2024
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green announced Wildfire Mitigation and Risk Reduction Preparedness Month nine months after the nation’s deadliest wildfire in over a century burned the historic town of Lahaina
May 10, 2024
A group of Republican-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block a federal rule that gives workers who had abortions the same legal protections as
May 10, 2024
The Biden administration is planning to announce new tariffs on electric vehicles, semiconductors, solar equipment and medical supplies imported from China
May 10, 2024
A Michigan judge has sentenced the former executive of a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison for the deaths of 11 people in 2012
May 10, 2024
A judge has put Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs after the legendary songwriter’s doctor reported that he has a major neurocognitive disorder
May 10, 2024
Novak Djokovic needed medical attention after accidentally getting knocked on the head by a water bottle after a win at the Italian Open
May 10, 2024
An Australian woman’s harrowing medical saga sounds too bizarre to be true – doctors shockingly discovered a live, wriggling worm parasite inhabiting her brain. In this world-first case, surgeons in Canberra extracted the 8cm-long roundworm from the 64-year-old patient’s skull. Typically found in pythons, the Ophidascaris robertsi specimen represented an unprecedented instance of this brain parasite infesting a human host. The patient’s journey from common symptoms to this grotesque revelation contains important lessons about emerging health threats. Initially, the woman from southeastern New South Wales experienced relatively routine issues like abdominal pain, diarrhea, coughing, fever and night sweats. But as
May 10, 2024
Prince William has offered a positive assessment of his wife’s health in one of his few statements about Kate’s condition since she announced that she was undergoing treatment for cancer
May 10, 2024
The northern Gaza Strip is still heading toward a famine, the deputy U.N. food chief said on Thursday, appealing for a greater volume and diversity of
May 10, 2024
U.S. officials pledged nearly $200 million in new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation's dairy cows
May 10, 2024
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records
May 10, 2024
Cannabis and psilocybin – used under supervision – have the potential to work better than current pain treatments, but the research into both has long been hindered by federal legislation.
May 10, 2024
Human heart organoids allow researchers to study the developing heart while avoiding the ethical issues of using human embryos and the imperfections of animal models.
May 10, 2024
A veterinarian and epidemiologist who studies infectious diseases in dairy cows discusses the outbreak, how cows recover and what the government is doing to keep the milk supply safe.
May 10, 2024
Bristol Myers Squibb reported a first-quarter loss on Thursday as charges related to its acquisitions of Karuna Therapeutics, RayzeBio and Mirati
May 10, 2024
After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better next time but are still struggling to finalize a global plan
May 10, 2024
Hawaii health officials say testing on west Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires
May 10, 2024
A judge must decide whether Virginia law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and given a monetary value
May 09, 2024
A new report finds fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more pronounced in states that ban abortion compared with other states
May 09, 2024
Sanofi's first-quarter operating income fell 14.7% as currency effects and cheap competition to its multiple sclerosis drug Aubagio outweighed rising sales of anti-
May 09, 2024
The number of births in the United States fell by 2% in 2023 from the previous year, driven in part by a marked birth rate decline among older teenagers and women
May 09, 2024
The U.S. government will require dairy cattle moving between states to be tested for bird flu starting on Monday as federal officials ramp up
May 09, 2024
Low birth rates aren’t just a potential economic crisis. They can tell a deeply personal story about women failing to reach their goals for motherhood.
May 09, 2024
One of the first longitudinal studies of male brain changes across the transition to first-time parenthood finds that becoming a dad affects the brain – without the direct experience of pregnancy.
May 09, 2024
The Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme
May 09, 2024
About 44 million Americans live in cities or counties that received a failing grade for air quality, which has deteriorated to its worst in 25 years across a swath of the U.S
May 09, 2024
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has left King Faisal Specialist hospital in Jeddah after completing "a routine check up", Saudi state media reported on Wednesday citing the
May 09, 2024
A U.S. Senate committee said on Wednesday it had launched an investigation into the prices of Novo Nordisk's diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy in the United States.
May 09, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new rules limiting the sugar and sodium content of meals served to millions of children at U.S. public schools.
May 09, 2024
Biogen reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street estimates, helped by cost cutting, as the launch of its new Alzheimer's disease drug remained
May 09, 2024
Humana withdrew its already downscaled 2025 profit forecast on Wednesday, citing disappointing government Medicare reimbursement rates, sending the health
May 09, 2024
A Texas man is petitioning a court for information over his former partner's alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up a first-of-its-kind legal test to the limits of statewide abortion bans
May 08, 2024
Steward Health Care says it plans to sell off all its hospitals after announcing this week that it filed for bankruptcy protection
May 08, 2024
Kenya's public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had left patients in limbo for almost two months
May 08, 2024
New U.S. rules require all dogs coming into the U.S. to be at least 6 months old and microchipped to help prevent the spread of rabies
May 08, 2024
Fintech lender Affirm has started quietly offering "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) loans for elective medical procedures, in a major push beyond its core e-commerce market, the
May 08, 2024
When resources are tight, mothers bear the costs of playing with their offspring even as they avoid socializing with others.
May 08, 2024
The implications of restrictive laws or near-total bans go well beyond abortions, reducing overall access to prenatal care, birthing services, routine reproductive health care and more.
May 08, 2024
The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled
May 08, 2024
Nine months into the U.S. launch of the first drug proven to slow the advance of Alzheimer's, Eisai and Biogen's Leqembi is facing an unexpected hurdle to widespread use: an
May 08, 2024
President Joe Biden on Tuesday blamed his Republican opponent Donald Trump for new Florida abortion restrictions during a campaign stop in Tampa, as Democrats double
May 08, 2024
Italy's Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to a contested government plan to allow groups who "support motherhood" into abortion clinics to try to deter women terminating
May 08, 2024
A Peruvian woman suffering from a degenerative illness has died by euthanasia after a lengthy court battle ended in a landmark ruling allowing her to end her life with medical
May 08, 2024
The U.N. World Health Organization says it has only three days of fuel for its medical operations in southern Gaza, and shortages have already forced one of three hospitals in the city of Rafah to shut down
May 08, 2024
Pfizer and BioNTech asked a London court to revoke rival Moderna's patents over technology key to the development of vaccines for COVID-19, as the latest leg of a
May 08, 2024
The idea of a doctor in the United States having to consider the risk of imprisonment before performing an emergency abortion might have been difficult to imagine
May 08, 2024
When Jaclyn Frosolone swiped the solution from the inside of her cheek, she had no idea she was about to unravel thousands of buried truths about her identity. The young woman from New York had taken an at-home DNA test on a whim, never expecting the earth-shattering results waiting on the other side. Instead of confirming her sole sisterly bond as she assumed, the report revealed dozens of previously unknown half-siblings scattered across the country. Even more mind-blowing, Frosolone’s sperm donor had fathered at least 200 children through anonymous donations to a sperm bank. Unbelievably, this same sperm donor’s genetic
May 07, 2024
Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban
May 07, 2024
Florida's top prosecutor and a Catholic medical group on Tuesday sued the Biden administration in an effort to block a rule that they say will force doctors to provide
May 07, 2024
A United Nations expert on Monday warned there was a risk that mental illnesses could manifest themselves years from now among the people of Gaza due to the current conflict.
May 07, 2024
Cardinal Health said on Monday its contracts with UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx, one of its largest customers, will not be renewed after they expire at the end of June,
May 07, 2024
Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass data protection lawsuit in London from hundreds of users who allegedly had their private information, including HIV status, shared with third
May 07, 2024
Drugmaker Bristol Myers Squibb said it has signed a $380 million deal with contract manufacturer Cellares to manufacture its CAR-T cell therapies in the United States, EU and Japan.
May 07, 2024
A judge in Kansas on Monday blocked a state law requiring healthcare providers to tell patients that medication abortion can be reversed and that abortion is linked to
May 07, 2024
A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United
May 07, 2024
Supreme Court rules against GOP in Pennsylvania ballot case
Trump says he would charge Stellantis 100% tariff if it moves jobs to Mexico
Ecuador's Indigenous defenders face growing threats, activists say at UN summit
US to deploy B-52s, warships to Middle East as aircraft carrier departs
Boats and cars block roads after deadly flooding in Spain
US agency settles with Chicago mortgage firm over racial discrimination claims
Supreme Court rules Pennsylvania may count back-up votes when mail ballots are rejected
A man is accused of punching and bloodying another passenger who was sleeping on a US flight
Embiid out on Saturday but 76ers' All-Star center moves closer to return from knee injury
MrBeast probe ends with some employees fired but finds no proof of sexual misconduct allegations