An opioid crisis has killed more than 400,000 people in the U.S. since 2000, ravaging communities and sparking complex litigation.

Public health officials say a teenager competing in the World Hip Hop Championship in Phoenix has measles and may have exposed others at the dance competition

Illinois health officials are reporting what could be United States' first death tied to vaping

West Virginia's top prosecutor says he's sued the major opioid makers Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA for misrepresenting the risks of their painkilling drugs

An adult in Illinois is being counted as the first death in the investigation.

France is accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of having lied to French leader Emmanuel Macron and says it now opposes a trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur because of his environmental back-peddling

Democratic voters look at pragmatic approaches on health care amid weakening support for 'Medicare for All'

The World Health Organization's emergencies chief said the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo is approaching a "stark" milestone with nearly 2,000 people killed by the virus in the year-long epidemic

The World Health Organization says it's theoretically possible to wipe out malaria, but probably not with the flawed vaccine and other control methods being used at the moment

Cheap daily pill that combines four drugs cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart failure, study finds

A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction allowing a South Bend abortion clinic to remain open without a state-required license, pending a final ruling in a lawsuit on the license

Feds to revamp confidentiality rules for addiction treatment in an effort to promote coordinated care

Utah legislators are drafting a bill that would scrap a planned state-run medical cannabis dispensary system after facing mounting pressure from county attorneys who said the system put public employees at risk of being prosecuted under federal drug laws

German authorities are increasing their stockpile of iodine tablets as a precaution for the possibility of a nuclear incident

Spain issues international health alerts in light of a widening outbreak of listeria from pork meat that has affected more than 150 people and killed one woman

Planned Parenthood sees swift fallout over its decision to quit family planning program

The World Health Organization says the levels of microplastics in drinking water don't appear to be risky

Officials are now looking into more than 150 possible cases of breathing illness in people who vape

An anti-vaccine activist has been cited for assault after pushing a California lawmaker on a sidewalk near the Capitol

North Carolina public schools have added a picture of an electronic cigarette to their "no smoking" signs

A pathologist who was fired from an Arkansas veterans hospital after officials said he had been impaired while on duty has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three patients

A former Planned Parenthood Arizona employee who claimed she was wrongfully fired after she reported unsafe medical practices has been awarded $3 million

Georgia is asking a federal judge not to block the state's restrictive abortion law from taking effect and to dismiss a challenge to the constitutionality of the measure

A nuclear weapons watchdog says Russia has resumed sharing data from its radiation monitoring stations after they were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range

New US guidelines say more women may benefit from gene testing for hereditary breast or ovarian cancer

Health authorities in Spain are on high alert after a 90-year-old woman died amid a listeria outbreak in the southern region of Andalusia that has affected more than 110 people

Planned Parenthood says it's pulling out of the federal family planning program rather than abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting participants from referring patients for abortions

Prices for brand-name prescription medicines are still climbing, just not quite as much

Photos of young people lost to the opioid crisis are perched outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia on Monday as a judge inside weighs a plan for a medically supervised injection site in the city

Two weeks after Louisiana patients started receiving medical marijuana, pharmacies haven't reported any supply chain problems and the program appears to be going smoothly

The Philippine agriculture chief says an unspecified number of pigs has died or been culled in backyard farms in recent weeks and a crisis team has been established to try to contain the still unspecified disease causing the swine deaths

The tide is starting to turn on efforts to let 'dental therapists' bring tooth care to rural areas

Three riot police officers, a police commander, a police academy teacher _ all are among eight French police officers who have killed themselves recently, raising the number to 64 so far this year.

Texas-based company faces criticism after naming beer after site of U.S. nuclear tests that caused Marshall Islands contamination

A review of 38 legal claims obtained by The Associated Press shows taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $200 million in damages as a result of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy

Close to $200 million in legal claims from dozens of families separated at the border may be just the start of litigation

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a warning to members that coffee is prohibited no matter how fancy the name and that vaping is banned despite the alluring flavors

Congo's year-long Ebola outbreak has spread to a new province, with two cases, including one death, confirmed in South Kivu, according to the government health ministry

Congo says its year-long Ebola outbreak has spread to a new province, with two cases confirmed in South Kivu

New Jersey's largest city faced off in court Thursday against an environmental group seeking to force officials to expand the distribution of bottled water to more residents facing potentially high lead levels

A Utah man who prosecutors call the second-in-command of a massive online opioid drug ring says it started with selling Adderall to pay for student loans

California's struggling legal cannabis industry is expected to grow this year to $3.1 billion, but it remains far outmatched by the state's thriving illegal market

The New York Police Department is grappling with a spike in officer suicides that has drawn national attention to the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among law enforcement

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawal preliminary approval for deadly sodium cyanide traps blamed for injuries to people and pets as well as predators in the U.S. West

As many as 50 people in at least six states have come down with breathing illnesses that may be linked to vaping

US makes new push to add disturbing images of smoking-related diseases to cigarettes

A New Jersey judge has put a temporary hold on a new law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs

New Jersey regulators have revoked the nursing license of a woman caught on security cameras stabbing an autistic teenager with needles when he failed to comply with her instructions

Mexico's Supreme Court has ordered the country's Health Department to set regulations complying with a law allowing medical use of marijuana and derivatives

The British government wants to set up an "express freight service" to ensure essential medicines are still available if the U.K. leaves the European Union without a divorce deal