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State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November

With ballot deadlines approaching, Nebraska and Missouri courts are weighing whether amendments on abortion will go before voters

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Maine for what it described as unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-operated juvenile detention facility

Donald Trump has signaled support for a potentially historic federal policy shift to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

The former head of food services for New York City public schools has been sentenced to two years in prison for a bribery scandal that resulted in children being served chicken tenders contaminated with metal and bone

Dozens of women who say they suffered excruciating pain at a Yale University fertility clinic because a nurse stole fentanyl and replaced it with saline have settled their lawsuits against the Ivy League school

Kate, the Princess of Wales, says she has completed chemotherapy and will return to some public duties in the coming months

Talking about death is never easy, but doing so early can help families prepare

Officials say a roadside bomb has hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six officers and three civilians

Over the past two years, an unprecedented number of Venezuelans have traveled to the U.S. border, seeking a better life

The remote Duck Valley reservation that straddles Nevada and Idaho has battled toxic contaminants on its land for decades

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar joins ABC News Live to talk about the U.S. surgeon general issuing a health advisory on parental stress.

A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died after an automobile crash in New Mexico

Authorities say a vaccination campaign against mpox in Congo will begin Oct. 2, with workers focusing on the three most affected provinces first

Wisconsin health officials have initiated a recall of eggs following an outbreak of salmonella infections among 65 people in nine states that originated on a Wisconsin farm

Huge numbers of Israelis have again turned out to protest the government's failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza

The case brings the national total to 14 so far this year.

Valley fever is contracted by breathing in spores of a certain fungus.

Health officials say a hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu, despite having no known contact with dairy cows or other animals

Workers seeking to ban smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos are asking an appeals court to consider their request, saying a lower court judge who dismissed their lawsuit did so in error

Abortion rights supporters in South Dakota say doctors can't rely on a new video from the state and mandated by a law that its Republican prime sponsor said gives clear guidance to physicians for life-threatening situations

A Missouri judge says an abortion-rights campaign didn't meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot

Texas is suing to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to get an abortion where it is legal

Valley fever is contracted by breathing in spores of a certain fungus.

The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have launched a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox

There's an army taking to Mexico City's streets — the Tree Army

A deadly shooting at a Georgia high school has stirred debate about laws encouraging the safe storage of guns

The U.S. is dealing with another school shooting: Two students and two teachers were killed at a school in Georgia

Abortion rights questions are on the ballot in nine U.S. states in November and could help draw more voters to the polls

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record

European climate agency says this summer was Earth's hottest on record

A judge says an anti-abortion GOP official used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state

Construction is getting underway on a state-funded reproductive health and abortion clinic in southern New Mexico that will cater to local residents and people who travel from neighboring states such as Texas and Oklahoma with major restrictions on abo...

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office plans to test DNA from a hair found on a wipe that was pulled from the throat of a woman who lived at a care home for people with developmental difficulties

More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020

About 4% of seniors can't afford their prescription at all, the study found.

Health officials warn that a rare but deadly mosquito-spread disease is posing a serious threat in parts of New England, prompting the cancellation of some events and changes to sports schedules to avoid bites by infected bugs

Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren are among several political leaders who are attacking the leader of a troubled health care system for refusing to comply with a subpoena to appear before a Senate committee

Officials say three people who tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease have died after an outbreak at an assisted living facility in upstate New York

Teen vaping in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level in a decade

Teen vaping in the US has dropped to its lowest level in a decade, according to a government survey

The test will allow people to self-collect samples in health care settings.

Nearly five years after COVID-19, a new analysis by The Associated Press shows that U.S. regulators are struggling to address a massive backlog of uninspected pharmaceutical plants

U.S. health inspectors are still struggling to address a massive backlog of pharmaceutical plants that went uninspected during disruptions caused by COVID-19

US regulators are struggling to catch up on drug factory inspections that were halted for COVID-19, AP finds

Slowly but surely, the fashion world at large is beginning to respond to the needs of disabled people

Astronauts may be exposed to the equivalent of 120 chest X-rays over 3 months.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed a bill to expand birth control access, while a judge struck down decades-old restrictions on who could perform abortions in the state

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have forced insurance companies to cover up to a year’s supply of birth control at a time

Alaska governor vetoes bill requiring insurance providers to cover up to a year of birth control at a time