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Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed abortion reports that the health department stopped releasing to protect patient privacy under a near-total ban on the procedure

The maker of a popular weedkiller is turning to lawmakers in key states to try to squelch legal claims that it failed to warn about cancer risks

ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan on aging and his new book, "Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality."

A former U.S. Marine has been sentenced to nine years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022

The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, reversing lower courts

Hotel heiress and media personality Paris Hilton is backing California legislation that aims to bring more transparency to discipline used at facilities for troubled teens

The dying words of an Oregon man who had an asbestos-linked cancer are being replayed in a federal courtroom for a jury hearing a wrongful death case against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway

Patients suffering from pain have limited options when it comes to medication

Drinks promoted as offering mental or physical benefits beyond hydration are growing in popularity around the world

The global market has exploded for drinks that promise to do more than just taste good

An independent expert commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy

It seems Americans don't think they're particularly well-rested

The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human body parts to buyers

Thousands of Polish opponents of abortion are marching in Warsaw to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalize the predominantly Catholic nation's strict laws and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents

A growing number of progressive candidates are choosing to tell their own abortion stories

The governor of Kansas has vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she says is a vague bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion

A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit brought by a county outside New York City that has banned transgender players from women's and girls' teams

A dozen additional victims say they were victimized by a medical assistant who falsely said he was nurse when they sought treatment in recent months at an urgent care facility outside Philadelphia

A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has spread to more than two dozen herds in eight states

The first drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s hit the U.S. market over a year ago, but sales have lagged and diagnosis and treatment remain complicated

A new report by the Mexican government says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump out tons of the illicit narcotic

There have been 121 measles cases reported so far this year.

Drug regulators in Europe have found no evidence that popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to a higher risk of suicidal thoughts or actions

The Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature has approved a bill that would protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought in other states

There are at least 323 active shortages, according to a pharmacy trade group.

Abortion was already a major issue in U.S. elections in 2024

Dr. Alok Patel shares health advice on “forever chemicals” and ear infections.

A Houston hospital has halted its liver and kidney transplant programs after it says a doctor manipulated a database for liver transplant patients, making them ineligible to receive a new organ

Poland’s lawmakers vote to move forward with work on lifting a near-total abortion ban

Polish lawmakers have voted to continue work on proposals to lift a near-total ban on abortion, a highly divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country

Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death

Iowa has asked the state Supreme Court to let its blocked abortion law go into effect and uphold it altogether, disputing abortion providers’ claims it infringes on women’s rights to exercise bodily autonomy

A new survey shows that almost a quarter of people who have been dropped from Medicaid during post-pandemic eligibility reviews are still uninsured

A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Republican former Gov. Doug Ducey

Debate over a bill that would protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from out-of-state lawsuits is off to a fiery start in the Maine Legislature

Idaho lawmakers spent much of an unexpectedly long and sometimes contentious legislative session focusing on bills targeting LGBTQ+ residents by limiting health care and reading materials

A subsidiary of Japanese-based Fujifilm Corp. plans to expand further a massive biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant in the state, even as the initial phase is not yet complete

Tennessee lawmakers are considering criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent

There have been 17 times as many U.S. measles cases in the first three months of this year compared with the average number seen in the first three months of the previous three years

The report calls for more research on puberty blockers and hormone therapies.

Poland's parliament is holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law

A federal appeals court is considering whether to reinstate Arkansas' first-in the-nation ban on gender affirming care for minors after hearing arguments

Dusty Farr used to be someone else

The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad's disastrous 2023 derailment in eastern Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic deal isn't enough

Doctors and clinic leaders say there’ll be a scramble across the Southwest and West for abortion care

Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion

Add investors to the list of people that opponents of smoking in casinos are enlisting in hopes of banning the practice

The new report said that medical evidence underlying gender care for adolescents is “remarkably weak.”