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New York is suing some of the largest vape distributors for allegedly fueling the country’s youth vaping epidemic. New York Attorney General...
Democratic lawmakers are decrying President Donald Trump’s recent order on in vitro fertilization as nothing more than a “PR stunt,” while...
Louisiana's attorney general is seeking to extradite a New York doctor who prescribed and sent abortion medication through the mail to a resident of...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Medicaid concerns threaten GOP budget resolution House...
The Trump administration’s 90-day freeze on foreign aid has impacted family planning resources used by hundreds of thousands of women, girls and...
Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study....
Louisiana is trying to extradite a New York doctor for allegedly sending abortion medication into the state. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill...
Presented by American Medical Association — A federal judge has directed health agencies to restore webpages and online datasets that were recently...
A pair of Indiana doctors are trying to stop the state’s Department of Health from releasing personal information on abortion patients. ...
Scientists, researchers and private health organizations scrambled to preserve as much federal public health data and guidelines as possible last week...
Users who search for abortion information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website are now directed to try searching for...
Public health experts worry the confusion stirred by a Trump administration funding freeze memo will not end quickly, harming public health services. ...
A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury Friday for prescribing abortion medication via telehealth to a woman in the state. Grand...
Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed two bills into law earlier this week that will allow pharmacists in the state to prescribe hormonal birth...
President Trump issued an executive order Monday night withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. The U.S. has historically...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has ordered all flags in New York state to be risen from half-staff to full staff on Monday for President Donald...
President-elect Trump is expected to reinstate a controversial policy soon after taking office that would further bar foreign nongovernmental...
Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued an executive order Thursday that he believes will further protect reproductive health care access...
The Food and Drug Administration has banned a controversial red dye from food and ingested drugs that has been linked to cancer in animals. The FDA...
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a requirement that cigarette packages include...
The United States has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths out of 30 countries, according to a new report from the health nonprofit the...
More than 15,000 doctors across the country signed an open letter urging senators to vote against President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of...
Reproductive health advocates expect President-elect Trump to reinstate a rule that weakened the country's sole federally funded family planning...
Latinos in the United States are less likely to have adequate health insurance than Americans overall, according to a new survey from health...
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Presented by Children's Hospital Association — Texas has launched what appears to be the first legal test to see what happens when contradictory...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor alleging she violated state law by prescribing abortion medication to...
A new San Diego County ordinance expands its status as a sanctuary county and further limits communication with ICE
The Ohio state Senate passed a bill earlier this week that will allow patients to force hospitals to administer drugs for off-label use. The...
Fewer children in the U.S. have gotten a flu vaccine in 2024 compared to last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and...
About 35 percent of U.S. women ages 15 to 49 said they received a family planning service between 2022 to 2023, according to a new report from the...
Republicans are expected to rescind the Biden administration’s contentious nursing home staffing rule before it is set to take effect. The move...
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research on Wednesday, according to...
Women and people with cervixes should have the option to use a self-swab human papillomavirus (HPV) test as part of a cervical cancer screen, the...
A more potent form of fentanyl is contributing to the thousands of overdose deaths that happen every year, health officials warn. An extremely...
After years of decline, cervical cancer rates are rising in some demographics in the United States — primarily low-income women and those in their...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Advocates say RFK Jr. poses risks to nation's health A new...
Adults who take Zepbound lose more weight than those who take competitor weight loss drug Wegovy, according to new clinical trial results. Zepound...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story SCOTUS to hear first case on transgender care for minors On...
Low-income Californians would have an easier time purchasing hormonal birth control pills at their local pharmacy under a new bill. The bill, which...
California lawmakers unveiled two new pieces of legislation to protect abortion access in the state ahead of President-elect Trump’s return to the...
Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year. But the disease is...
The morning-after pill is legal across the U.S., even in the states with the strictest abortion bans — but many Americans don't know that, in part...
President-elect Trump has finished making selections for the top public health roles in his incoming administration after he issued a flurry of...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump picks Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH The nomination...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Biden proposes Medicaid, Medicare cover obesity drugs A...
The Biden administration proposed a new rule Tuesday that would allow anti-obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound to be covered under Medicaid and...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump picks heads of CDC, FDA and surgeon general President-...
State health officials are warning Californians not to drink a single batch of milk from a Fresno-based dairy farm after bird flu was found in a...