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An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia into housing and medical care is starting in San Francisco and six other California counties

Nebraska trans youth must wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications.

A federal judge blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues

A federal judge blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues

Trying to decide how to frame opposition to a reproductive rights amendment.

"The government’s got to fix this," said Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Nebraska’s new law restricting gender-affirming care for anyone under 19 goes into effect this weekend

Mississippi's human services director says the state has seen a consistent increase in the number of families accepting public assistance for child care since lawmakers banned abortion in almost all circumstances

Mississippi's human services director says the state has seen a consistent increase in the number of families accepting public assistance for child care since lawmakers banned abortion in almost all circumstances

ABC News medical contributor, Dr. Alok Patel breaks down what parents need to know about their kids' access to marijuana online, recent COVID news, and shares his weekend prescription.

Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones has been arrested

Police in northern Mexico say that hitmen stormed a hospital in a bid to kill a patient

The CDC estimates 3 in 10 people who use marijuana may have a cannabis use disorder.

The Navy will start randomly testing special operations troops for steroids, the first such program in US military

A group of federal appeals judges has ruled that Tennessee and Kentucky can keep banning gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed

The Food and Drug Administration says it plans to begin regulating laboratory-based medical tests

Over 40% of Americans have obesity, the CDC says.

A judge has sentenced an abortion opponent to five years in prison for burning a Wyoming abortion clinic

Police in Portland, Oregon, are investigating nearly a dozen fentanyl overdoses involving children as young as 1 year old

Police in Portland, Oregon, are investigating nearly a dozen fentanyl overdoses involving children as young as 1 year old

Abortion opponent who says she torched a Wyoming clinic due to anxiety and nightmares is sentenced to 5 years in prison

A man formerly known as a powerful Michigan lawmaker is going to federal prison for nearly five years

Fall vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials urging both an updated COVID-19 shot and flu vaccine for most everyone

A Massachusetts woman has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston Children’s Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths

Almost half of the world’s population live in areas with a risk of dengue.

A judge has dismissed state officials from a lawsuit related to past lead contamination in a small southwestern Michigan city’s drinking water

The complexities of abortion-related politics in the post-Roe v. Wade era are continuing to put the squeeze on Republican Daniel Cameron

A former director of an Ohio memory-loss clinic accused by dozens of patients of falsely diagnosing them with Alzheimer’s disease has been sentenced on federal fraud charges, along with her physician husband

A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday

A group of pharmacists frustrated with overwhelming workloads didn't show up for work last week in at least a dozen Kansas City-area CVS pharmacies

Head Start has more than 800,000 students enrolled across America.

Virginia Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the rhetoric being used by their Democratic opponents in abortion-focused messaging in this year’s critical legislative elections

Virginia Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the rhetoric being used by their Democratic opponents in abortion-focused messaging in this year’s critical legislative elections

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law protecting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in other states

Federal health advisers have voted overwhelmingly against recommending approval of an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease, the fatal muscle-wasting disease

Activists in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city are trying to join a federal lawsuit against the city for violating standards for clean drinking water

Lower-income new mothers will get a full year of Medicaid health care coverage in Nebraska under an order issued by Gov. Jim Pillen

The Biden administration is moving to make it easier for caregivers to take in family members in the foster care system, requiring states to provide them with the same financial support that any other foster home would receive

Every American is eligible to receive a free kit with four tests.

Experts say these tips can help fight off common cold symptoms this season.

A Montana state judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a law to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors

A state judge has temporarily blocked a Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth

A state judge has temporarily blocked a Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims his forces are making progress in eastern Ukraine, as U.S.-made Abrams tanks arrive on the battlefield.

Dr. Alok Patel breaks down exercises you can do every day to better your posture.

Police in Canada say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor sterilized an Inuit woman without her consent

Space can cause many physical and psychological changes for astronauts.

Scottish authorities have approved a multimillion pound drug consumption room

The poll results come as COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to climb.