A scenic fishing village in southwestern England is on its third day under instructions to boil its tap water after a parasite sickened more than 45 people

Teams of 35 international doctors, including 22 Americans, are trapped in Gaza after Israel's seizure of the main crossing into Egypt sealed off their way out

Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever

A abortion rights ballot initiative is going before South Dakota voters this November

A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all abortions around six weeks after conception as an appeal continues on what exactly defines a heartbeat under the law

The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog said the agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data

Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in US drug policy

An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says he died from ingesting a large quantity of chile pepper extract

A South Korean court has ruled in favor of the governments contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by demonstrations against the war in Gaza that have included ...

Five NHL players left their teams this season to receive care from an off-ice assistance program run by the league and union

South Africa's president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the healthcare system to address deep inequality, but it faces legal challenges from critics

The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year

If youve tried meditating but cant sit still, youre not alone

Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick sided with the majority in restoring an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions

Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last years destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found

For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long

The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that the EPA brags is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster

A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years

Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite an outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows

As AI moves into medicine, perhaps no one has more to gain or lose than radiologists, the doctors who review medical scans for signs of cancer and other diseases

Republicans say the Wisconsin Senate will be voting to override the Democratic governors veto of at least five bills

Helen Ryvar took up running in 2020 just before Britain went into lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic and after being told her ex-husband had died following a mental-health battle

Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead

There can be lifelong challenges for people with sickle cell disease in rural Uganda, where it remains poorly understood

A Michigan judge has sentenced the former executive of a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison for the deaths of 11 people in 2012

A judge has put Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs after the legendary songwriters doctor reported that he has a major neurocognitive disorder

After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better next time but are still struggling to finalize a global plan

A new report finds fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more pronounced in states that ban abortion compared with other states

A judge says Beach Boys co-founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should be in a court conservatorship to handle his personal and medical decisions

Kenya's public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had left patients in limbo for almost two months

A Texas man is petitioning a court for information over his former partner's alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up a first-of-its-kind legal test to the limits of statewide abortion bans

Steward Health Care says it plans to sell off all its hospitals after announcing this week that it filed for bankruptcy protection

New U.S. rules require all dogs coming into the U.S. to be at least 6 months old and microchipped to help prevent the spread of rabies

Even people who know that looking at their smartphone in bed isnt good for them do it anyway

The prime minister of Thailand says he wants to outlaw the cannabis over concerns the lack of regulation had made it available to children and increased crimes

The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled

President Joe Biden is pushing proposals to help families pay for child care, preschool and elder care while he's running for reelection this year

A proposed amendment to New Yorks constitution barring discrimination based on gender identity and pregnancy outcomes cannot appear on the state ballot in November because legislators made a procedural error during an initial round of approval

Chinese state media are reporting a knife attack with possible deaths at a hospital in the countrys southwest

Home health care provider Elara Caring is being sued by the husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist

Minnesota lawmakers have launched their debate on far-reaching legislation that would amend the state's constitution to protect abortion and LGBTQ rights

The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered full-blown famine after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas

Yogurt sold in U.S. grocery store may soon have new labels that say the popular food might help reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes

For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer's disease

San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is notorious for its open-air drug use and congested sidewalks

A federal proposal to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug has raised the hopes of some pot backers that more states will embrace cannabis

South and Southeast Asian countries have been coping with a weekslong heat wave rendering record high temperatures that have posed a severe health risk. Umbrellas to shield against blazing sunlight are popular, air-conditioned malls are serving as urban oases, and schools in Cambodia have been cutting back their hours. In the Philippines, India and Bangladesh, officials have told students to stay home and do their lessons remotely. In April, the United Nations Childrens Fund warned that the swel

The health insurer Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit over whether its fertility treatment coverage discriminates against LGBTQ+ patients

The U.S. expects to have arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering aid this month via a new U.S.-backed sea route