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

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

Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights amendment on the states November ballot and over longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure

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

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones has been arrested

A nighttime shooting attack on a hospital in northern Mexico has left four people dead including a doctor

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

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

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

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 Childrens Hospital as it faced a barrage of harassment over its surgical program for transgender youths

A judge has dismissed state officials from a lawsuit related to past lead contamination in a small southwestern Michigan citys 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 Alzheimers disease has been sentenced on federal fraud charges, along with her physician husband

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

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

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

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

The man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 said during a mental health evaluation that he bought firearms to carry out a mass shooting and wanted police to kill him

A Montana state judge has 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

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

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek says she has directed state police to launch new strategies aimed at disrupting the fentanyl supply chain and holding sellers of the illegal and often deadly drug accountable

A coalition of anti-abortion organizations is urging two Wisconsin prosecutors to pursue charges against abortion providers in their counties despite a court's ruling that abortion is legal

More students in schools serving low-income communities will be eligible to receive breakfast and lunch at no cost under a rule change announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture

The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps as deadly fighting grinds on between the countrys military and a rival paramilitary force

Japans health ministry has approved Leqembi, a drug for Alzheimers decease that was jointly developed by Japanese and U.S. pharmaceutical companies

Government test data shows new passenger vehicles in the U.S. are extremely safe, but roadway deaths are steadily rising

If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared

The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to consider a much-debated treatment for Lou Gehrigs disease

More research is showing that we carry genes from other kinds of ancient humans, and their DNA affects our lives today

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills.

As Congress considers payments to victims of Cold War-era nuclear contamination in the St. Louis region, people who were targeted for secret government testing from that same time period believe theyre due compensation, too

The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and its painting a new picture of our origins

At the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, African leaders are relaying a unanimous message, that their continent of more than 1.3 billion people is done being a victim of a post-world war order and must be recognized and partnered with as a g...

A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems

Nikki Haley is gaining attention in the GOP race with her calls for consensus around abortion, an unusual tone in a campaign where Republican White House hopefuls often prefer to highlight their eagerness to fight President Joe Biden and other Democrats

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

Minneapolis officials plan to transfer two city-owned properties to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa

Maryland surgeons for the second time have transplanted a pigs heart into a dying man

Some adults in North Carolina could get Medicaid coverage within weeks because Gov. Roy Cooper says he'll let the state budget bill coming to his desk become law

Some medical providers are dropping continuing gender-affirming care for minors, even though it remains legal

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has released a plan to try to ease some financial problems for hospitals

About a half-million people are regaining Medicaid coverage after the federal government says they were dropped inappropriately by states

Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration is beginning the process to remove medical bills from peoples credit scores

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

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