HEALTH

U.S. health advisersare backing the continued use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, saying it remains an important option for adults at high risk of severe illness.

New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women dropped significantly in 2022.

A conservative judge in Texas has raised questions about an effort to overturn the decades-old approval of a leading abortion drug, in a case that could threaten the country’s most common method to end pregnancies.

A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit that poses a threat to the nationwide availability of a leading abortion medication.

President Joe Biden says his administration is focused “intensely” on lowering health care costs.

A Texas judge hearing a case that could throw into jeopardy access to the nation’s most common method of abortion is a former attorney for a Christian legal group who critics say is being sought out by conservative litigants because they believe he’ll be sympathetic to their causes.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing the first federal limits on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water, saying it could prevent thousands of illnesses.

Reports say Jiang Yanyong, a Chinese military doctor who revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness, has died.

Tens of thousands of junior doctors are on strike across England to demand better pay, kicking off three days of widespread disruption at the U.K.‘s state-funded hospitals and health clinics.

A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.

U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 vaccine risks are harmful to the public.

West Virginia’s Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving a significant change to add exceptions for mental health.

Doctors in West Virginia say transgender health care that could soon be banned in the state is just as essential as the other lifesaving services they provide.

Missouri voters could decide whether to restore abortion rights if proposed constitutional amendments make it on the 2024 ballot.

U.S. women getting mammograms will soon receive information about their breast density because of new government rules.

President Joe Biden is requesting more than $2.8 billion in the federal budget proposal he's sending to Congress to help advance his cancer-fighting goals.

Arkansas lawmakers have sent the Republican governor a bill that would make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is withdrawing a $54 million contract with Walgreens.

The maker of an unproven drug intended to prevent premature births says it will voluntarily remove the product from the United States.

A woman born to a severely disabled resident of a New York state facility in 1986 has filed a lawsuit saying her mother was raped by an employee whose abuse was covered up by those in charge.

The World Health Organization has fired its top official in the Western Pacific.

WeightWatchers' acquisition of a telehealth company is just the latest commercial push into the market for a new generation of medications that promise significant weight loss.

A new United Nations report says acute malnutrition among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25% in the past two years in 12 countries hard hit by rising food prices fueled by the fighting in Ukraine.

The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday.

President Joe Biden has started to unveil parts of his budget proposal being released later this week.

U.S. health officials are alerting consumers about two more recalls of eyedrops due to contamination risks that could lead to vision problems and serious injury.

Iranian teachers have held protests in several cities over suspected poisonings targeting hundreds of schoolgirls.

Federal agriculture officials are proposing a new rule that would clarify the meaning of meat labels that say foods are “Made in the USA.”.

In a major study, a new kind of cholesterol-lowering drug helped people who can’t take the first choice, pills called statins.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Friday that he plans to sign a measure that would effectively ban abortion clinics from operating in the state.