Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament.

Voters are getting a say on abortion policy in Tuesday's election with ballot measures and elections to offices from president to local prosecutors.

As Florida heads to the polls next Tuesday, voters will face a critical decision on Amendment 4, a proposal aimed at shaping the state’s stance on abortion rights.

The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks.

Thousands of women have rallied in the U.S. capital and elsewhere with abortion rights at the forefront of their demonstrations.

Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.”.

The debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year.

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan, killing nine people including five nearby children.

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday.

Nearly 18 months after Florida passed a law promising income to eligible parents of medically fragile children, those families are still waiting for their first paycheck.

Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others.

It’s that time of year again. When the clock strikes 2 a.m., it actually strikes 1 a.m. After clocks were set forward an hour to begin daylight saving, they are turning back an hour. While the switching of the clock may earn you an extra hour of sleep, studies by Harvard Medical School and John Hopkins have found that daylight saving can actually have some costly mental health effects.

Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for one year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research.

It’s no surprise that workers feel burned-out.

Americans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025.

Some of these animals are known for being pests, while others can be downright deadly.

The European Commission has fined Israeli generic drugmaker Teva more than 460 million euros ($500 million) for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company’s development of a competing medicine.

A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales.

Federal officials are reporting more cases of E.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

The fall and winter months bring preparation for the following year, including health care needs.

People prone to seasonal depression are bracing themselves as winter approaches.

A 15-year-old Colorado girl is hospitalized with severe complications of E.

The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year.

A federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida’s health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights measure on next week’s ballot.

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, triggering a shootout that left two police officers dead.

A Central Florida radiation oncologist showed up to work one day not realizing it would change her life.

Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.

Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them.

Pakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases.

McDonald's says testing has ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E.

It's time to move clocks back on Sunday.

Experts say the scariest things on Halloween aren’t monsters or ghosts — it's traffic.

While many believe the delicious taste of chocolate is nothing more than a guilty pleasure, it actually has more health benefits than you think.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sickened in 13 states.

Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday.

One year ago, a gunman killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston.

Orange County has been spraying as part of ongoing efforts to combat the spread of the West Nile Virus following the recent impacts of Hurricane Milton.

A judge has permanently blocked enforcement of Ohio's ban on virtually all abortions.

A California-based produce company is the source of fresh onions linked to a deadly E.

Health officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri infection.

Deadly food poisoning outbreaks tied to McDonald's and Boar's Head may have left Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply.

There are more than 104,000 people waiting for transplants and 65% are Black.

An appeals court in London has rejected British killer nurse Lucy Letby’s bid to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in her care.

The Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities.

Fewer teenagers are using drugs after rates precipitously dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, but overdose rates are on the rise as fentanyl becomes more common.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tensions over abortion have only intensified, setting the presidential election up as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.

TikTok videos of women turned away from emergency rooms because of state abortion bans haunt one young female voter in North Carolina.

Life has come full circle for Clermont Police Sgt. Kris Kruse. He's taking flight in the same helicopter used to save his life.

U.S. health officials are recommending that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses.

Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed a University of Pennsylvania researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black.

The Environmental Protection Agency didn't ensure that states submitted accurate estimates of the number of lead pipes they had.

Two AdventHealth locations have been combining AI and genetics to help patients determine early breast cancer risk.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was caused by a common type of E.

Now known as "Safe To Sleep," the Back To Sleep campaign started in 1994 to build greater awareness about putting infants to sleep on their backs to help reduce the risk of sudden infant death or SIDS.

McDonald’s is working to reassure U.S. customers that its restaurants are safe even as federal investigators try to pinpoint the cause of a deadly E.

A striking new Kamala Harris campaign ad campaign that seeks to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe tells the story of a Texas woman named Ondrea who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn’t get medical care after she miscarried, and now may no longer be able to have children.

Britain’s drug regulator approved the Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla on Wednesday, but the government won’t be paying for it after an independent watchdog agency said the treatment isn’t worth the cost to taxpayers.

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A recreational drug called “pink cocaine” is getting attention and causing confusion since it doesn't typically contain cocaine.

With so much rain lately, you've probably noticed masses of mosquitoes in your yard.

A judge has appointed a mediator to try to negotiate an end to a long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.

A recall of hundreds of frozen waffles and other toaster foods has been expanded.

Do you know how often you should have a mammogram?

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to head to reliably Republican Texas just 10 days before Election Day to try to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive care.

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae.

A new report finds that women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Hurricane Milton swept through Central Florida earlier this month, swamping communities across the region.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is focusing his official office on fighting an abortion rights amendment.

More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages.

Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines.

People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.

This week, the spotlight is on attorney John Morgan, a driving force behind the movement to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida.

Officials say Pakistan has witnessed a surge in new polio cases ahead of a new nationwide campaign, hampering years-long efforts aimed at making the country a polio-free state.

Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot this November because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights.

Officials in Sanford have filed a lawsuit against the companies it believes are responsible for contaminating the city’s water.

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company.

Hundreds of frozen waffle products sold in leading retailers including Walmart and Target are being recalled.

Brain injuries are a growing problem for the U.S. military.

A local organization that helps people with paralysis regain their strength and mobility is taking a big step forward, but they need your help to keep the momentum going.

A case of West Nile Virus was confirmed in Orange County and officials are warning residents to watch out for mosquitos and help eliminate breeding sites at their homes.

Some research suggests moderate caffeine consumption has a positive impact on erectile health, but other studies have found no correlation.

An Orlando doctor was indicted on Thursday after being accused of offering to inject silicone for a “gluteal augmentation procedure,” according to the Department of Justice.

A three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee cannot discipline doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues.

Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year.

U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year.

An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness.

Africa's top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits.

Adult day centers are the most racially diverse long-term care setting in the U.S. They also serve the least amount of people of all long-term care settings, in part because of the cost and limited insurance coverage options.

It takes water to flush a toilet yet tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago.

Donald Trump has been shifting his stances on abortion and reproductive rights.

A new study found people with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus.

A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria bacteria has expanded to nearly 12 million pounds.

Serena Williams says she had a benign branchial cyst “the size of a small grapefruit” removed from her neck and “all is OK.”.

Coffee is controversial in the world of longevity.

A new bill aiming to legalize assisted dying in Britain was introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time in nearly a decade that lawmakers will debate allowing doctors to help end people’s lives after previous court challenges to change the law failed.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California are getting a pay bump under a state law.

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