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A coalition of anti-abortion organizations is urging two Wisconsin prosecutors to pursue charges against abortion providers in their counties despite a court's ruling that abortion is legal

More students in schools serving low-income communities will be eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no cost under a rule change announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture

The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps as deadly fighting grinds on between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force

Japan’s health ministry has approved Leqembi, a drug for Alzheimer’s decease that was jointly developed by Japanese and U.S. pharmaceutical companies

Government test data shows new passenger vehicles in the U.S. are extremely safe, but roadway deaths are steadily rising

Hispanic adults were more likely to have long COVID than other groups.

Connecticut’s Department of Public Health has reached a settlement agreement with the agency’s former commissioner, who was fired in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic

Across the country, states are battling fatal drug overdoses.

A judge has dismissed charges against six people in the death of a Michigan prisoner who lost 50 pounds over two weeks and died of dehydration while being restrained

The plan is to help those with a psychotic disorder, such as schizophrenia.

If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared

A Missouri judge has tossed Republican-written ballot summary language Monday that described several proposed constitutional amendments as allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.”

A major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant has restarted production, 10 weeks after it was heavily damaged by a tornado

The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to consider a much-debated treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease

More research is showing that we carry genes from other kinds of ancient humans, and their DNA affects our lives today

Clinics unsuccessfully challenged new state limits on gender affirming care.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills.

As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe they’re due compensation, too

Pakistan’s health minister says an injectable medicine that was causing a severe eye infection and sight loss in diabetic patients in the province of Punjab has been recalled and an investigation ordered while police are looking for the suppliers

The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and it’s painting a new picture of our origins

The White House says President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot

At the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, African leaders are relaying a unanimous message, that their continent of more than 1.3 billion people is done being a “victim” of a post-world war order and must be recognized and partnered with as a g...

A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems

Nikki Haley is gaining attention in the GOP race with her calls for “consensus” around abortion, an unusual tone in a campaign where Republican White House hopefuls often prefer to highlight their eagerness to fight President Joe Biden and other Democrats

ABCNL's Elizabeth Schulze sits with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and our panel to discuss the resurgence of COVID and the new booster shot.

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses a new study that finds a link between work stress and increased risk for heart disease in men.

U.S. health officials are recommending RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be as a second option to protect newborns

Hospital staff say lessons learned have made them better prepared.

The vaccine would provide protection to babies before they're born.

Hospital staff say lessons learned have made them better prepared.

Minneapolis officials plan to transfer two city-owned properties to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life

Maryland surgeons for the second time have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man

Plus, what you need to know about your immune system and COVID.

Some adults in North Carolina will soon get Medicaid coverage because Gov. Roy Cooper says he'll let the state budget bill become law

Immunity wanes after anywhere from three to six months, experts say.

Some medical providers are dropping continuing gender-affirming care for minors, even though it remains legal

About a half-million people are regaining Medicaid coverage after the federal government says they were dropped inappropriately by states

Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration is beginning the process to remove medical bills from people’s credit scores

Pfizer and Moderna say they have sent out millions of doses of the new COVID-19 vaccines in the past week

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued an anti-abortion group and a chain of anti-abortion counseling centers, saying the organizations misled women when they offered unproven treatments to reverse medication abortions

A federal appeals court is considering cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia that could have significant implications on whether individual states are required to cover health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has released a plan to try to ease some financial problems for hospitals

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has released a plan to try to ease some financial problems for hospitals

Prosecutors say a 73-year-old man has pleaded guilty to driving a car into a planned abortion clinic in eastern Illinois and trying to set the building on fire earlier this year

An Idaho man has contracted measles, and health officials are working to contact anyone who may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities

The Seattle City Council has adopted an ordinance that makes illegal drug use and possession a gross misdemeanor, after rejecting a similar measure earlier this summer

The Senate has confirmed Gen. CQ Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month

The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia pscyhiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state, county and the sheriff whose deputies were inv...