President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus.

New rules require drugmakers to be clearer about explaining the risks and side effects of prescription drugs.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F.

Deep breathing can be a simple and effective way to reduce stress.

Democratic lawmakers who wield control of the Virginia Legislature are hoping to make good on promises made on the campaign trail, including becoming the first Southern state to expand constitutional protections for abortion access.

At least 104 people have been sickened, with 34 hospitalized, in an outbreak of E.

The Justice Department is suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys.

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky.

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data.

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban.

Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month.

Record-high air pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province prompted authorities to keep government employees at home and close additional schools, as doctors reported an increase in people seeking treatment for smog-related ailments.

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa.

A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and tried to kill his mother’s boyfriend by injecting him with a fake COVID-19 vaccine that was poison has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.

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

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

It's time to move clocks back on Sunday.

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.

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.

A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team says Robert F.

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.

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

Federal officials are reporting more cases of E.

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

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

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

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

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.