Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings
Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program
A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware has narrowly cleared the Democrat-led House and now goes to the state Senate for consideration
With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection
A 12-year saga over a fatal national meningitis outbreak still isn't over
State lawmakers are taking very different approaches to public safety following high-profile shootings
The World Health Organization has approved a new version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/approves-updated-cholera-vaccine-fight-surge-cases-109390398
Idaho families with transgender children are desperately scrambling for solutions as a state law banning gender-affirming care for minors has taken effect
Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforce...
The head of a specialty pharmacy will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade ago that were tied to tainted steroids
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/lab-chief-faces-sentencing-michigan-12-years-after-109354442
Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people
The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America
Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/earth-day-senators-idea-50-years-ago-people-109344936
A plan by Britain’s government to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament despite vocal opposition from with...
President Joe Biden's administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbre...
The maker of a popular weedkiller is turning to lawmakers in key states to try to squelch legal claims that it failed to warn about cancer risks
Texas is being fined $100,000 a day by a federal judge for neglecting investigations into abuse and neglect allegations raised by some of the 9,000 children it has in foster care
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/texas-fined-100000-day-failing-act-foster-care-109310328
Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed abortion reports that the health department stopped releasing to protect patient privacy under a near-tota...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/indiana-limits-abortion-data-privacy-total-ban-gop-109278922
Hotel heiress and media personality Paris Hilton is backing California legislation that aims to bring more transparency to discipline used at facilities for troubled teens
A former U.S. Marine has been sentenced to nine years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022
The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts
The dying words of an Oregon man who had an asbestos-linked cancer are being replayed in a federal courtroom for a jury hearing a wrongful death case against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway
Patients suffering from pain have limited options when it comes to medication
Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, reversing lower courts
Drinks promoted as offering mental or physical benefits beyond hydration are growing in popularity around the world
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/science-ingredients-functional-beverages-109233539