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Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed two bills into law earlier this week that will allow pharmacists in the state to prescribe hormonal birth...
President Trump issued an executive order Monday night withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. The U.S. has historically...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has ordered all flags in New York state to be risen from half-staff to full staff on Monday for President Donald...
President-elect Trump is expected to reinstate a controversial policy soon after taking office that would further bar foreign nongovernmental...
Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued an executive order Thursday that he believes will further protect reproductive health care access...
The Food and Drug Administration has banned a controversial red dye from food and ingested drugs that has been linked to cancer in animals. The FDA...
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a requirement that cigarette packages include...
The United States has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths out of 30 countries, according to a new report from the health nonprofit the...
More than 15,000 doctors across the country signed an open letter urging senators to vote against President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of...
Reproductive health advocates expect President-elect Trump to reinstate a rule that weakened the country's sole federally funded family planning...
Latinos in the United States are less likely to have adequate health insurance than Americans overall, according to a new survey from health...
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Presented by Children's Hospital Association — Texas has launched what appears to be the first legal test to see what happens when contradictory...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor alleging she violated state law by prescribing abortion medication to...
A new San Diego County ordinance expands its status as a sanctuary county and further limits communication with ICE
The Ohio state Senate passed a bill earlier this week that will allow patients to force hospitals to administer drugs for off-label use. The...
Fewer children in the U.S. have gotten a flu vaccine in 2024 compared to last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and...
About 35 percent of U.S. women ages 15 to 49 said they received a family planning service between 2022 to 2023, according to a new report from the...
Republicans are expected to rescind the Biden administration’s contentious nursing home staffing rule before it is set to take effect. The move...
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research on Wednesday, according...
Women and people with cervixes should have the option to use a self-swab human papillomavirus (HPV) test as part of a cervical cancer screen, the...
A more potent form of fentanyl is contributing to the thousands of overdose deaths that happen every year, health officials warn. An extremely...
After years of decline, cervical cancer rates are rising in some demographics in the United States — primarily low-income women and those in their...
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Adults who take Zepbound lose more weight than those who take competitor weight loss drug Wegovy, according to new clinical trial results. Zepound...
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Low-income Californians would have an easier time purchasing hormonal birth control pills at their local pharmacy under a new bill. The bill, which...
California lawmakers unveiled two new pieces of legislation to protect abortion access in the state ahead of President-elect Trump’s return to...
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year. But the disease is...
The morning-after pill is legal across the U.S., even in the states with the strictest abortion bans — but many Americans don't know that, in part...
President-elect Trump has finished making selections for the top public health roles in his incoming administration after he issued a flurry of...
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The Biden administration proposed a new rule Tuesday that would allow anti-obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound to be covered under Medicaid and...
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State health officials are warning Californians not to drink a single batch of milk from a Fresno-based dairy farm after bird flu was found in a...
Just 17.9 percent of U.S. adults have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, and 34.7 percent have received an influenza vaccine during the 2024-25 respiratory...
If confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wouldn't have the...
President-elect Trump's decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary will put some of the former...
Measles cases have skyrocketed in recent years after a COVID-19 pandemic-era drop in vaccination against the virus. Cases of the disease...
American women are seeking to take their reproductive future into their own hands ahead of a second Trump presidency by stocking up on emergency...
Federal officials said Thursday that farmworkers exposed to bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they are not showing any symptoms,...
Workers in three states are now entitled to paid sick leave for the first time. In Alaska, most workers are now entitled to at least 40 hours of...
A proposed state constitutional amendment enshrining the right to “reproductive freedom” has passed. Reproductive rights advocates say that the...
The ballot measure enshrining the right to an abortion in the Colorado state constitution has passed. The initiative — called Amendment 79 —...
Fewer health care workers are getting the most recent COVID-19 booster. Findings from a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and...
Voters head to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in an election with significant consequences for health care. A victory for Vice President Harris...
Some Democratic lawmakers warn that in addition to further rollbacks of women's reproductive rights, a second Donald Trump presidency would also...
Louisiana healthcare workers and advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a recently passed state law re-classifying two drugs used in...