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

After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.

Anti-abortion advocates say they will quickly dismantle some of President Joe Biden's abortion policies once President-elect Donald Trump makes his return to the White House next year.

A jury has awarded more than $12 million to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Exposure to asbestos can increase the risk of certain cancers, including lung cancer and mesothelioma.

An expensive campaign by abortion-rights advocates for state supreme court seats has yielded mixed results.

A former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu.

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to spread.

Abortion rights advocates prevailed in ballot measures in seven states, but that doesn't resolve the issue.

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.

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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.

Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration.

Donald Trump is refusing to say how he voted on Florida’s abortion measure and he's getting testy about it.

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

Abortion rights advocates lost on Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota ballot measures but prevailed in seven other states, including Missouri, where an amendment clears the way to undo one of the nation's strictest bans.

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

Thousands of women have rallied in the U.S. capital and elsewhere with abortion rights at the forefront of their demonstrations.

Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.”.

The debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year.

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A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

It seems that some are just more prone to illnesses than others, but why? Is there anything that accounts for the difference, or is there something more at play?

It can be difficult to determine whether you have a cold, flu or COVID-19, especially this time of year when illnesses begin to ramp up.

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.

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday.

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.

Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for one year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research.

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.

The European Commission has fined Israeli generic drugmaker Teva more than 460 million euros ($500 million) for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company’s development of a competing medicine.

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

Federal officials are reporting more cases of E.

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

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

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

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

A federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida’s health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights measure on next week’s ballot.

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.

Last November, the March of Dimes awarded the state of Michigan a “D+” for its efforts to safeguard the health of pregnant women and babies.

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Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.

Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them.

Pakistan has begun a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases.

McDonald's says testing has ruled out beef patties as the source of the outbreak of E.

It's time to move clocks back on Sunday.

Experts say the scariest things on Halloween aren’t monsters or ghosts — it's traffic.

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Nationally, 22 people have been hospitalized, the CDC said. Two people developed a dangerous kidney disease complication and one person died.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sickened in 13 states.

Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday.

One year ago, a gunman killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston.

A judge has permanently blocked enforcement of Ohio's ban on virtually all abortions.

A California-based produce company is the source of fresh onions linked to a deadly E.

Health officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri infection.

Deadly food poisoning outbreaks tied to McDonald's and Boar's Head may have left Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply.

An appeals court in London has rejected British killer nurse Lucy Letby’s bid to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in her care.

The Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities.

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tensions over abortion have only intensified, setting the presidential election up as a referendum on fundamental rights for tens of millions of women.

TikTok videos of women turned away from emergency rooms because of state abortion bans haunt one young female voter in North Carolina.

U.S. health officials are recommending that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses.

Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed a University of Pennsylvania researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black.

The Environmental Protection Agency didn't ensure that states submitted accurate estimates of the number of lead pipes they had.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was caused by a common type of E.

McDonald’s is working to reassure U.S. customers that its restaurants are safe even as federal investigators try to pinpoint the cause of a deadly E.

A striking new Kamala Harris campaign ad campaign that seeks to highlight increasingly perilous medical care for women since the fall of Roe tells the story of a Texas woman named Ondrea who got a life-threatening infection when she couldn’t get medical care after she miscarried, and now may no longer be able to have children.

Britain’s drug regulator approved the Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla on Wednesday, but the government won’t be paying for it after an independent watchdog agency said the treatment isn’t worth the cost to taxpayers.

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A recreational drug called “pink cocaine” is getting attention and causing confusion since it doesn't typically contain cocaine.

A judge has appointed a mediator to try to negotiate an end to a long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.

A recall of hundreds of frozen waffles and other toaster foods has been expanded.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to head to reliably Republican Texas just 10 days before Election Day to try to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive care.

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae.

A new report finds that women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is focusing his official office on fighting an abortion rights amendment.

More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, social workers and other mental health workers in Southern California have begun an open-ended strike over increased workloads and staffing shortages.

Parents have a lot to worry about when it comes to teenagers -- from social media, to school stress, learning to drive, and on and on. Now we can add “eating protein” to that list.

Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines.

People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.

Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts toward making the country polio-free.

Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot this November because they believed it could energize liberals eager to protect abortion rights.

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company.

Brain injuries are a growing problem for the U.S. military.

TreeHouse Foods voluntarily recalls certain frozen waffle products due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

A three-judge panel has ruled that Tennessee cannot discipline doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

Teen smoking hit an all-time low in the U.S. this year.

U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year.

An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases where patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness.

Africa's top public health agency says the number of mpox-related deaths in the continent has surpassed 1,000 and warned of the continuing threat of cross-border contamination and a lack of rapid test kits.

Adult day centers are the most racially diverse long-term care setting in the U.S. They also serve the least amount of people of all long-term care settings, in part because of the cost and limited insurance coverage options.

It takes water to flush a toilet yet tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago.

Donald Trump has been shifting his stances on abortion and reproductive rights.

A new study found people with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus.

A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria bacteria has expanded to nearly 12 million pounds.

Serena Williams says she had a benign branchial cyst “the size of a small grapefruit” removed from her neck and “all is OK.”.

A new bill aiming to legalize assisted dying in Britain was introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time in nearly a decade that lawmakers will debate allowing doctors to help end people’s lives after previous court challenges to change the law failed.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.