HEALTH

Depression affects an estimated 16 million Americans and recent federal data shows that tele-health is creating much needed access to highly sought after services.

A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments.

Indiana’s attorney general has sued the state’s largest hospital system, claiming it violated patient privacy laws when a doctor publicly shared the story of an Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.

Fewer than half of rural hospitals have labor and delivery units and the number keeps dropping.

Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican presidential primary even as he’s refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion.

Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities.

Efforts by the Biden administration to limit tailpipe pollution from automobiles face a crucial test as legal challenges brought by Republican-led states head to a federal appeals court.

For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man.

Rep. Steve Scalise has returned to the U.S. Capitol for the first time since being diagnosed with a blood cancer known as multiple myeloma.

Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year.

New data shows that the number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. continued to fall through the late 2010s even as the nation's overdose crisis deepened.

Two decades ago, the U.S. government created what's described as the largest commitment by any nation in history to combat a single disease, AIDS.

Advocates are asking a Missouri judge to rewrite what they say are misleading descriptions of abortion-rights constitutional amendments.

U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots aimed at revving up protection this fall and winter.

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is slamming a fellow Republican in the Senate for waging an unprecedented attempt to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.

Recent food recalls have been spurred by foreign objects like rocks, insects and plastic.

Afghanistan is now the world's fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off mail-order access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States.

The Florida Supreme Court must decide whether to overrule broad abortion rights protections provided for decades under the state constitution and instead uphold a law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans the procedure in most cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

There will be water breaks at all matches on the first weekend of the Rugby World Cup.

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition has defeated a no-confidence motion against the country’s health minister who has been accused of allegedly failing to secure enough essential drugs and laboratory equipment that some say resulted in preventable deaths in hospitals.

A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl.

With over 14 million people expected to check into airports nationwide for Labor Day weekend, a number of them inevitably will be travelers with dementia or some sort of cognitive impairment.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday criticized recent efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking and his state surgeon general warned against getting the latest COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to be available this month.

The decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court to invalidate all federal criminal penalties for abortion opened access for millions of people in the sprawling public health system.

A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, violating their constitutional rights to reasonable care while in state custody.

Bruce Springsteen says he needs to postpone concerts this month because of peptic ulcer disease.