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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper leaves his job next week after eight years.
President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.
The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.
A judge has ruled that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment.
The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government have declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks.
New grant funding is helping the Virginia Community Health Care Association address food insecurity and teach people how food can be an effective prevention and treatment of diet-related diseases and chronic illnesses.
California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That raises new questions about the outbreak of the virus, also known as Type A H5N1.
The man arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is being held without bail after a New York federal court appearance on charges including a death-eligible murder count.
The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.
American professional tennis player Jenson Brooksby tells The Associated Press he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder when he was nonverbal at about 2 1/2 years old.
During the transition period between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, there has been at least some coordination on West Wing affairs.
10 News wore purple Tuesday in a show of support for a respected colleague in local television, Mark Spain, who was recently diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. In a special Healthwatch, a local doctor explains what pancreatic cancer is and some of the risk factors and warning signs of this disease.
Pakistan's police say a roadside bomb has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan.
Indonesia's mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite.
An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time eight years.
North Carolina reached its Medicaid expansion enrollment goal of 600,000 people just over a year since the program rolled out.
President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.
A lawyer for convicted British killer nurse Lucy Letby says he plans to ask an appeals court to re-examine her convictions after the prosecution’s leading expert changed his opinion on how three infants died.
If you find yourself feeling more down or blue during the wintertime than other seasons, you could have seasonal affective disorder.
Officials say Pakistan has begun its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases hampered efforts to stop the disease.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, said any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine.
Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine.
The day after a masked gunman killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City, police in San Francisco gave the FBI a potentially valuable tip about the identity of the suspect.
McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work for opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma, according to court papers filed in Virginia.
As the year draws to a close, a remarkable initiative involving “superheroes” clad in unique costumes brings unexpected joy — not only to the sick children but also, perhaps even more deeply, to their parents.
Social media posts from Luigi Mangione show the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson underwent successful back surgery last year that alleviated debilitating chronic pain.
Police say the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence.
Fewer grandparents were taking care of grandchildren, there was a decline in the number of preschoolers and more people were staying put in their homes in the first part of the 2020s compared with the last part of the 2010s.
Slovakia’s parliament has approved legislation drafted by the government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico that could effectively ban doctors from protesting against low pay.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she is suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness over what she calls “excessive pumping” of groundwater.
President Joe Biden says having healthy women is as important for the U.S. economy as it is for the women themselves.
Authorities say the mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria.
New York City’s police commissioner says the gun found on the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO matches shell casings found at the crime scene.
While surveying a room packed with Hollywood’s most influential figures, “Emilia Pérez” star Selena Gomez took center stage at the Academy Women’s Luncheon to spotlight a critical issue: Prioritizing mental health and supporting underserved communities often left behind in the conversation.
A federal judge has ruled that immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 states aren't entitled to health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Dengue fever is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected cases of the mosquito-transmitted virus reported this year, nearly triple the number from last year.
The federal government has sued South Carolina, saying the state has not done enough to make sure people with serious mental illnesses are taken out of group homes and helped back into communities where they can work and lead independent lives.
The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggled with deputies and shouted while arriving for a court appearance in Pennsylvania a day after he was arrested at a McDonald’s and charged with murder.
Next month, a state panel is expected to consider whether Carilion Clinic should move forward with a proposed kidney transplant program.
California lawmakers will consider a bill to require labels on social media platforms warning of their effects on young people’s lives.
As Donald Trump’s Cabinet begins to take shape, the nominees offer a preview of how his administration might handle abortion after he repeatedly flip-flopped on the issue on the campaign trail.
Police arrested a “strong person of interest” Monday in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer who was found with a weapon and writings linking him to the ambush.
Police have arrested a suspect in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a quick-thinking McDonald’s customer and an employee in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a customer who was found with a weapon, mask and writings linking him to the ambush.
Winter is a great time to experiment with new food preparations and flavors to keep your meals nutritious and interesting.
After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on imported medical supplies.
Some residents of seven Louisiana nursing homes who were sent to ride out 2021's Hurricane Ida in a warehouse are being offered shares of a nearly $9 million settlement.
Nearly four days after the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, police still do not know the gunman’s name or whereabouts or have a motive for the killing.
Planned Parenthood wanted to resume offering abortions in several Missouri clinics on Friday, immediately after the state's new constitutional amendment rolling back a near total ban took effect.
A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat.
Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss is stepping away from his ESPN analyst role for an extended time to focus on a personal health challenge, the network said in a statement.
The World Health Organization said Friday it deployed experts to investigate a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people in southwest Congo.
An alternative healer who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of maladies has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during his workshop.
Police officials say the gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer likely left New York City on a bus soon after fleeing the scene on a bicycle and hopping in a cab.
Democrats in Michigan are pressing to pass reproductive health care legislation before the party loses its majority with the new legislative session next year.
Eli Lilly is spending another $3 billion to bulk up manufacturing as the drugmaker seeks to stoke production of some blockbuster drugs and future products.
A message left at the scene of an insurance executive’s fatal shooting echoes a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims.
The masked gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel used ammunition emblazoned with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” a law enforcement official said Thursday.
Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother’s death.
Congo’s health minister says the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.
New clues are emerging in the hunt for the masked gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, including possible leads about his travel before the shooting and a message scrawled on ammunition found at the crime scene.
UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has been shot and killed in what police say is a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a Manhattan hotel where the health insurer was holding its investor conference.
The Supreme Court has heard arguments in just its second major transgender rights case, a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors.
The new head of the U.N. humanitarian aid agency is calling for “ruthlessness” when prioritizing how it spends money.
Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
