HEALTH

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

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

Brazil’s top court is deciding whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide.

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

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

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.

A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments.

After nearly a decade in the vibrant city of San Antonio, my husband and I are embarking on a new chapter as we prepare to move to the East Coast.

A doctor talks about the effects of the wildly popular new drugs and what you should know before and after starting one.

Indiana’s attorney general has sued the state’s largest hospital system, claiming it violated patient privacy laws when a doctor publicly shared the story of an Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.

Fewer than half of rural hospitals have labor and delivery units and the number keeps dropping.

Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican presidential primary even as he’s refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion.

Abortion providers in South Carolina want to lengthen the narrow window when they can legally terminate a pregnancy under a strict new ban.

Efforts by the Biden administration to limit tailpipe pollution from automobiles face a crucial test as legal challenges brought by Republican-led states head to a federal appeals court.

For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man.

Rep. Steve Scalise has returned to the U.S. Capitol for the first time since being diagnosed with a blood cancer known as multiple myeloma.

Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year.

French regulators have ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards for exposure.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon.

The nursing shortage is projected to reach 13 million nurses worldwide by 2030, which is why hospitals are diligently seeking innovative strategies to revolutionize the field in an attempt to save both jobs and lives.

Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine.

Lawmakers in California's state Assembly have voted to put a measure before voters next March that would overhaul the way counties are funding mental and behavioral health programs.

A University of Central Florida researcher has discovered that vaping could also increase your risk for cancer.

At least two Missouri health care centers have stopped prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition, citing a new state law that gives former patients broad leeway to sue.

Government advisers say the leading decongestant used by millions of Americans to treat nasal congestion doesn't actually work.

Women in three states are challenging strict abortion laws that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising.

New data shows that the number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. continued to fall through the late 2010s even as the nation's overdose crisis deepened.