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

A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after six months at a Chicago area hospital

He calls out mistakes in how EPA used sensor plane after Ohio derailment.

An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison

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

A new survey says medical providers were prescribing abortion pills to about 8,000 women a month in states with abortion bans or bans on telehealth abortions by the end of 2023

Police across the United States have been warned for decades that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly

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

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm

Arizona’s highest court has given the state’s attorney general another 90 days to decide further legal action in the case over a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban

A lawyer representing U.S. military families suing over a 2021 jet fuel leak into a Navy drinking water system in Hawaii is asking a judge to award plaintiffs a range of about $225,000 to about $1.25 million each in damages

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law regulating transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings

KP.2 currently makes up an estimated 28.2% of cases in the U.S., CDC data shows.

Impassioned supporters and opponents of a far-reaching Equal Rights Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution flocked to the State Capitol ahead of crucial votes aimed at putting it on the 2026 ballot

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

A group of Atlantic City casino workers has asked a judge to ban smoking in the gambling halls, citing the toxic effects of working there

Dr. Cyril Wecht has died at age 93 after spending much of his life pressing his view that more than one shooter was involved in President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination

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

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest for a second straight year

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

The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists

Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it

Violence is traumatizing Haitian children

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

Local governments across the country are receiving money from opioid settlements, but not all of them know how to use it

The hospital said there was no indication the passing was due to the transplant.

The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure

Some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety

Immigrants in New York’s shelter system may be getting evicted even if they are pregnant, according to an audit of the city’s shelter eviction policies

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill aimed at ensuring that judges order child support payments for fetuses

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 songwriter’s doctor reported that he has a major neurocognitive disorder

Prince William has offered a positive assessment of his wife’s health in one of his few statements about Kate’s condition since she announced that she was undergoing treatment for cancer

U.S. officials pledged nearly $200 million in new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation's dairy cows

A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records

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

Hawaii health officials say testing on west Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires

Sandra Miceli was fined $55,000 by the NY State Department of Health.

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says the city will open a new space for people to recover and receive treatment for nearly 24 hours after they have overdosed on fentanyl or other drugs

A bill that would have consolidated six South Carolina heath care agencies and was overwhelmingly passed by both chambers of the General Assembly has died in a procedural move by a member angry he was mocked by his colleagues

Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez was eight months pregnant and prepping for her doctoral dissertation when she went into labor. Our panel reacts to her amazing story!

A judge must decide whether Virginia law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and given a monetary value

A Colorado abortion fund said Thursday it’s helped hundreds access abortion in the first months of 2024, the majority arriving from Texas where abortion is restricted

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

The U.S. government has updated its rules for bringing a dog into the country

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

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will sign legislation to criminalize the misuse of a powerful animal tranquilizer called xylazine that is showing up in supplies of illicit drugs and contributing to a growing number of human overdose deaths

Approximately 170 people have been exposed, city officials say.