HEALTH

Starting today, IDEA public schools will offer free meals to children 18 years and younger through July 21.

Federal health officials say people who worked with food while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of food poisoning outbreaks from restaurants with a known cause between 2017 and 2019.

The Carter Center is sharing the news that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia.

A federal court ruling has cleared the way for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle thousands of legal claims over the toll of opioids.

Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry while he was U.K. prime minister into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A humanitarian charity says that hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly.

Recent allegations by WNBA player Dearica Hamby that her coach harassed her for being pregnant have shined a renewed spotlight on one of the biggest challenges that female professional athletes face.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories such as race, sex and religion.

Emergency dispatch logs in Portland, Oregon, show that a man died while waiting over a half-hour for an ambulance after being struck by a hit-and-run driver last month.

Iowa teachers are now banned from raising gender identity or sexual orientation issues with children through the sixth grade.

A judge has put a temporary halt to South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has stripped one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious, high-volume orders at the height of the opioid crisis.

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.

Colorado medical providers will need to get patients’ prior consent before medical students can perform pelvic exams on them while they are unconscious for a procedure under a bill signed into law.

A new study suggests dozens of U.S. cities are at risk for mpox outbreaks this summer.

Federal officials say over 200 patients could be at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures at clinics in a Mexico border city.

A wave of newly approved abortion restrictions in the Southeastern United States has sent providers scrambling to reconfigure their services for a region with already severely limited access.

The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit.

At least 17 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the Hammanskraal township outside South Africa's capital of Pretoria.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday pledged to sign a federal ban on abortion but again did not set down a marker for what timeline such a proposal should encompass.

A new study shows a daily multivitamin may boost memory function in some people, although the results don't change recommendations about use of the supplements.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies are investigating reports of 18 salmonella infections linked to Papa Murphy's cookie dough.

If you have trouble sleeping, you’re not alone. According to a recent Consumer Reports survey, only 42 percent of us would describe our sleep as good or very good. Consumer Reports explores if supplements could be the answer for the rest of us.

Planned Parenthood is shifting funding to its state affiliates and cutting national office staff.

Jimmy Carter's grandson says the former president remains in good spirits three months after entering end-of-life care at home.

A life-saving robotic heart surgery is being credited by one San Antonio area woman for saving her life.

The only five women in South Carolina’s 46-member Senate have vowed to resist new abortion restrictions up for debate after the group filibustered a near-total ban last month.

Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, is calling for “immediate action” by tech companies and lawmakers to protect kids’ and adolescents’ mental health on social media.

The U_S_ Surgeon General is warning there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for young people — and is calling on tech companies, parents and caregivers to take “immediate action to protect kids now.”.

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is condemning an unusual rise in the number of withdrawal requests to the city's organ donation system, saying police will investigate suspicious cases.

A lawsuit has been filed against medical transport provider American Medical Response West, saying the ambulance company’s lax oversight allowed a paramedic to sexually assault two women in their 80s while en route to a hospital.

U.S. health regulators have approved a new nasal spray to reverse overdoses due to fentanyl and other powerful opioids.

Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is scheduled to sign a bill Monday that bans abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy and restricts gender-affirming medical care for people younger than 19.

More Texas women who were told they could not end pregnancies with fatal fetal anomalies or that endangered their health are challenging the state's restrictive abortion laws.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia.

The death in Border Patrol custody of an 8-year-old Panamanian girl is the second child migrant fatality in two weeks under government supervision, raising questions about how prepared authorities are to address medical emergencies of people arriving after an often-exhausting journey.

Martina Navratilova is doing “OK” after being diagnosed with throat cancer and breast cancer.

Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to a hospital for clinical depression in February, he used to walk the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits.

Unfounded claims about Indiana University’s sex research institute, its founder and child sex abuse have been so persistent over the years that when the Legislature prohibited the institute from using state dollars, one lawmaker hailed the move as “long overdue.”.

Officials in Colorado and Montana have issued air quality alerts due to smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada that has drifted south into the United States.

A nonprofit that describes itself as a collection of doctors and others uniting to “protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” has become a significant presence in statehouses.

Legislation to restrict gender-affirming care is often pre-written and shopped out by a handful of interest groups.

An Associated Press analysis has found that many of this year’s statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths are identical or very similar to some model legislation.

The world's top health leaders are in San Antonio for the third annual Global Health Symposium.

U.S. health officials are reporting another death and several more cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans were perhaps “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”.

Transgender people in El Salvador face violence and discrimination in their deeply religious country.

Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, is an attempt by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to promote an anti-nuclear message.

Conservative Nebraska lawmakers are expected to have just enough votes to pass a bill Friday that combines restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors with a 12-week abortion ban.

“What happens is you’re perfectly normal one day, and suddenly overnight, this person can become paranoid, can start having visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations.”

State and federal health officials are warning U.S. residents to cancel planned surgeries in a Mexico border city after five people from Texas developed suspected cases of fungal meningitis.

Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee has signed a bill into law that would let state funds be used to pay for health insurance plans that cover state workers and Medicaid recipients seeking abortions.

Federal health advisers are debating a first-of-its-kind RSV vaccine to protect newborns by immunizing their moms late in pregnancy.

Factors largely outside of farmers’ control – from the increasingly unpredictable weather to growing costs of everything from fuel to loans – make the threat of losing the beloved family farm a constant worry.

Hundreds of measures targeting transgender people have been proposed in statehouses this year, and several have moved forward this week.

Soccer officials, scientists, medical professionals and others have gathered in Chicago for a head injury summit.

Work requirements for federal aid programs have emerged as a sticking point in ongoing negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, and President Joe Biden has signaled openness to a possible compromise even as many in his party have balked.

Illinois is more protective of abortion access than most any state.

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will remain free through the Memorial Day weekend before surrendering to authorities on May 30.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. rose slightly in 2022.

Florida is banning gender affirming care for minors among a series of anti-LGBTQ+ bills signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Abortion bans are back on the agenda for lawmakers in the Carolinas and Nebraska this week.

As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws.

While genetics is the most common cause of hair loss in men and women, there are many other factors that can cause you to shed.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans hears arguments Wednesday on whether a drug used in the most common method of abortion was properly approved by a government agency more than two decades ago.

Missouri officials terminated the Republican attorney general’s emergency rule that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults.

YouTube is great at sending users videos that it thinks they'll like based on their interests.

Federal regulators are suing to block biotech drug developer Amgen’s more than $26 billion deal for Horizon Therapeutics.

Four more former professional soccer players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The Templeton Prize — one of the world's largest annual individual awards — is being awarded this year to a nurse-midwife who for decades has strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa.

American lore is full of tales of the lone cowboy, the rugged individualist who will do what needs to be done and ride off into the sunset.

Lawmakers in the state of Washington are going into special session hoping to avert a crisis over the decriminalization of drugs.

Three appeals court judges with a history of supporting restrictions on abortion will hear arguments May 17 on whether a widely used abortion drug should remain available.

North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature will attempt to quickly override the governor’s veto of legislation banning nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Democratic and Republican leaders in the Washington Statehouse have reached a tentative deal on a major new drug policy, one that would avoid making the state the second to decriminalize the possession of controlled substances.

A federal judge’s ruling striking down a key part of the Affordable Care Act has been temporarily put on hold by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.

Coverage of fertility treatments remains hard to find in many corners of health insurance even as it grows briskly with big employers that see it as a must-have benefit to keep workers.

President Joe Biden has tapped a cancer specialist to become director of the National Institutes of Health.

Vending machines that have long been stocked with snacks are getting repurposed to distribute life-saving supplies to fight the opioid epidemic.

Mom encourages blood donations after lifesaving donation saved her and daughter.

Around Manhattan and elsewhere in New York City, hotels that served tourists just a few years ago have become de facto emergency shelters.

North Carolina’s Democratic governor has vetoed legislation that would have banned nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Police in Dallas say a man angry that his girlfriend had an abortion in another state fatally shot the 26-year-old woman.

Kansas’ Democratic governor has vetoed Republican legislation that would have provided a financial boost to pregnancy centers run by abortion opponents and curbed state and local officials' powers during infectious disease outbreaks.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of drug to treat hot flashes caused by menopause.

The peak summer travel season is almost here, and pilots are stepping up their pressure on major airlines for new contracts that will include higher pay.

High school students are having less sexual intercourse.

Attorneys for a group of youths suing Montana over damages caused by climate change say officials repealed the state’s energy policy to avoid an upcoming trial.

Thousands of doctors and nurses signed on to work in the country’s most desperate regions during the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for forgiveness of medical school debt.

For the San Antonio nonprofit, Hero Scuba Group, the sport of scuba diving is a resource that has become an essential activity for its members in regulating many of life’s stresses.

Kansas’ governor and top state lawmakers plan to consider a proposed legal settlement between the state and the owner of a Wichita fitness studio forced to shut down during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic and then operate under restrictions.

Officials in Missouri’s largest city could vote on a resolution to make it a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care.

New blood donations rules will allow sexually active gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships to give in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration guidelines ease decades-old restrictions on blood donations put in place to protect the blood supply from HIV.

The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox is no longer an international emergency.

Thirteen people dead in two mass shootings.

The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country’s formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study finds an experimental skin patch shows promise to treat toddlers who are highly allergic to peanuts.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the death of Jordan Neely at the hands of a fellow subway rider was “a tragedy that never should have happened.”.

Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold without a prescription.

Vermont’s Republican governor has signed abortion and gender affirmed shield bills into law that include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone.