Health News

6:27 PM on Thursday, March 19

A 31-year-old Georgia woman has charged with murder by police who say she took pills to induce an abortion

5:02 PM on Thursday, March 19

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has created a new community safety office intended to shift some mental health crisis response away from police

3:29 PM on Thursday, March 19

Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change

2:12 PM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a new higher-dose version of the blockbuster obesity drug Wegovy

1:50 PM on Thursday, March 19

1:03 PM on Thursday, March 19

The Trump administration is launching investigations into 13 states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion

11:24 AM on Thursday, March 19

A new way of scheduling work time is remaking the typical nine-to-five routine

11:03 AM on Thursday, March 19

A new KFF survey shows many Americans who had Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance last year are struggling with high health costs

10:05 AM on Thursday, March 19

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting food as medicine, but experts say he's overstating what diet can do for serious illness

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A Chinese province has intensified a crackdown on fentanyl precursor trafficking, an issue that strained U.S.-China relations and prompted tariffs on imports from China

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2:21 PM on Wednesday, March 18

About 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health workers are striking in Northern California over fears the company will replace therapists with artificial intelligence

2:08 PM on Wednesday, March 18

A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies

1:34 PM on Wednesday, March 18

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has sued a patient who refuses to leave a hospital room, even though doctors discharged her more than five months ago

9:17 AM on Wednesday, March 18

A meningitis outbreak in southeast England has led to the deaths of a university student and a pupil from a nearby school