Missouri lawmakers have approved a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment passed by voters six months ago. The Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday to place a new amendment on the …
Missouri lawmakers put abortion ban on state ballot, seeking to reverse voter-approved abortion-rights measure.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will propose that California pause enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status for state-funded health care benefits in 2026. He also wants to start charging people …
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making his first appearance as health secretary before the powerful Senate health committee. Kennedy is expected to face intense scrutiny Wednesday about the thousands of …
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts. The …
President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower prices in the U.S. or face new limits on what the government will pay. In doing …
Gov. Josh Shapiro is warning that cuts to Medicaid health care that Congress is considering would mean billions of dollars in lost federal aid to Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of people losing …
President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of …
There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from an overdose 2024. That’s down 27% …
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A Montana state judge has ruled that a 2023 state law banning many gender transition-related medical services for transgender minors is unconstitutional, prohibiting its enforcement. The ruling …
An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year in the US, a 27% drop from 2023.
Rising heat is a problem for millions of people in India, and one western city is pointing the way in figuring out some ways to deal with it. Ahmedabad, a city of more than 7 million people that sees …
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A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency. U.S. District Judge Irene Berger …
U.S. health officials say they plan to phase out fluoride-containing supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth, citing possible health risks. The announcement Tuesday is the latest action by …
Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period before an abortion has been struck down. A judge says it conflicts with a voter-approved amendment that locked abortion rights in the state constitution in 2022. …
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed a bill into law to make Maryland the first state to use money collected from a surcharge on insurance plans sold under the Affordable Care Act to pay for an …
One of Diego Maradona’s daughters has testified that her father’s primary care physician couldn’t explain to her what type of treatment the soccer great was receiving and blamed the doctor for …