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Workers are saying 'no' to toxic environments. Here's how to set limits or know it's time to leave

Read full article: Workers are saying 'no' to toxic environments. Here's how to set limits or know it's time to leave
FILE - Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
9 hours ago

Judge to hear arguments to Louisiana law listing abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances

Read full article: Judge to hear arguments to Louisiana law listing abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
10 hours ago

Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump's bill

Read full article: Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump's bill
People in support of abortion rights protest outside the Missouri Senate chamber after the Senate voted to approve a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
12 hours ago

Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

Read full article: Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

Missouri lawmakers have approved a referendum seeking to repeal an abortion-rights amendment passed by voters six months ago.

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2024-2025 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
15 hours ago

California governor outlines $12 billion deficit and freeze on immigrant health program access

Read full article: California governor outlines $12 billion deficit and freeze on immigrant health program access

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is staring down an $12 billion budget deficit.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears during a budget hearing before a House Appropriations, Subcommittee at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
15 hours ago

Lawmakers question Kennedy on staffing cuts, funding freezes and policy changes at health department

Read full article: Lawmakers question Kennedy on staffing cuts, funding freezes and policy changes at health department

Republicans and Democrats alike are questioning the deep staffing cuts, research funding freezes and policy changes U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

FILE -A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez), File)
15 hours ago

The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks

Read full article: The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks

The U.S. is up to 1,001 confirmed measles cases.

FILE - Vials containing samples of forever chemicals, known as PFAS, sit in a tray, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
16 hours ago

What the EPA's partial rollback of the 'forever chemical' drinking water rule means

Read full article: What the EPA's partial rollback of the 'forever chemical' drinking water rule means

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will roll back limits on several types of what are known as forever chemicals in drinking water.

FILE - The exterior of the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia, S.C. is shown, Jan. 18, 2023. The right to an abortion is back before the highest court in South Carolina on Tuesday, June 27, as Republicans try to restore a ban that was overturned earlier this year this time in front of the only state Supreme Court in the nation made up entirely of men. (AP Photo/James Pollard, File)
16 hours ago

South Carolina Supreme Court decides heartbeat definition allows six-week abortion ban

Read full article: South Carolina Supreme Court decides heartbeat definition allows six-week abortion ban

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts.

FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
18 hours ago

Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love

Read full article: Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love

President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find love.

FILE - Signs are displayed at a tent during a health event on June 26, 2021, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/John Raby, File)
19 hours ago

US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen

Read full article: US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

FILE - A child shows off her teeth after a dental exam in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)
1 day ago

FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove ingestible fluoride products used to protect kids' teeth

Read full article: FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove ingestible fluoride products used to protect kids' teeth

U.S. health officials are announcing an effort to phase out ingestible fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth, citing possible health risks.

FILE - A flag stand atop the Maryland State House on May 11, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. . (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)
1 day ago

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs bill to tap unused ACA insurance funds for abortion grant program

Read full article: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs bill to tap unused ACA insurance funds for abortion grant program

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed a bill into law to make Maryland the first state to use money collected from a surcharge on insurance plans sold under the Affordable Care Act to pay for an abortion grant program.

FILE - The U.S. Department of Agriculture building stands in Washington, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
1 day ago

Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages

Read full article: Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore webpages related to climate change after it was sued earlier this year over the deletions.

FILE - Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealth Group, testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing examining cyber attacks on health care, and the Change Healthcare cyber attack, on May 1, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
1 day ago

UnitedHealth Group CEO steps down as company lowers, then withdraws financial outlook for 2025

Read full article: UnitedHealth Group CEO steps down as company lowers, then withdraws financial outlook for 2025

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is stepping down from his post for personal reasons and the health care giant says it’s suspending its full-year forecast due to higher-than-expected medical costs.

FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined from left by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks to reporters about his push for a House-Senate compromise budget resolution to advance President Donald Trump's agenda, even with opposition from hard-line conservative Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
1 day ago

Trump's $4.9 trillion tax plan targets Medicaid to offset costs

Read full article: Trump's $4.9 trillion tax plan targets Medicaid to offset costs

House Republicans have revealed the sweeping tax provisions for President Donald Trump’s big bill.

A man carries a mattress into a tent set up on a sidewalk, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
2 days ago

What to know about California Gov. Gavin Newsom's move to ban encampments

Read full article: What to know about California Gov. Gavin Newsom's move to ban encampments

California’s governor once again called upon the state’s cities and counties to ban homeless encampments.

Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
2 days ago

UN agencies warn that Israel's plans for aid distribution will endanger lives in Gaza

Read full article: UN agencies warn that Israel's plans for aid distribution will endanger lives in Gaza

International aid agencies warn that plans presented by Israel to control aid distribution in Gaza will only increase suffering and death in the devastated Palestinian territory.

Palestinian children scrape a pot for leftover food after all meals were distributed at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
2 days ago

Food security experts warn Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn't end its blockade

Read full article: Food security experts warn Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn't end its blockade

Food security experts say the Gaza Strip is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its military campaign.

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
2 days ago

What to know about food poisoning illnesses caused by listeria

Read full article: What to know about food poisoning illnesses caused by listeria

U.S. health officials say a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat sandwiches and snacks has sickened at least 10 people.

FILE - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner, Sunday April 27, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha, File)
2 days ago

Illinois governor is first in US to block federal access to personal data on autism

Read full article: Illinois governor is first in US to block federal access to personal data on autism

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order protecting the privacy of autism-related health data.

FILE - A patient infected with chikungunya looks out from mosquito netting at the Clinicas Hospital in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Friday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, file)
2 days ago

US health officials advise older travelers not to get a chikungunya vaccine

Read full article: US health officials advise older travelers not to get a chikungunya vaccine

The U.S. government is advising that international travelers age 60 and older not get a chikungunya vaccine as it investigates possible side effects.

FILE - Cattle graze next to the Victoria reservoir in the State of Mexico, Mexico, Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
2 days ago

Mexico says US suspension of beef imports because of screwworm is unfair

Read full article: Mexico says US suspension of beef imports because of screwworm is unfair

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has described as “unfair” the decision by the Trump administration to suspend imports of Mexican beef cattle for 15 days due to the detection of screwworm in shipments.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
3 days ago

Trump promises to order that the US pay only the price other nations do for some drugs

Read full article: Trump promises to order that the US pay only the price other nations do for some drugs

President Donald Trump says he’ll sign an executive order that, if implemented, could bring down the costs of some medications.

FILE - This 2002 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. (Elizabeth White/CDC via AP, File)
3 days ago

At least 10 people sickened in US listeria outbreak linked to prepared foods

Read full article: At least 10 people sickened in US listeria outbreak linked to prepared foods

Federal officials say at least 10 people in the U.S. have been sickened in a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat food products, and a producer is voluntarily recalling several items.

Boxes for the medications Wegovy and Zepbound are arranged for a photograph in California on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia)
3 days ago

Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs

Read full article: Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs

A new study shows that people Zepbound lost about 50% more weight than those using Wegovy.

Dr. Warren Hern stands in his now-closed clinic Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Late abortions are rare. The US just lost a clinic that offered the procedure for over 50 years

Read full article: Late abortions are rare. The US just lost a clinic that offered the procedure for over 50 years

An abortion clinic in Colorado that for more than 50 years served people who looked to terminate their pregnancies in the second or third trimester quietly closed last month.

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed, Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

First at-home test kit for cervical cancer approved by the FDA, company says

Read full article: First at-home test kit for cervical cancer approved by the FDA, company says

U.S. officials have approved the first cervical cancer test that allows women to collect their own sample at home.

FILE - Bottles containing a variety of colored liquids sit on a shelf in a lab at Sensient Technologies Corp., a color additive manufacturing company, in St. Louis., on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

FDA will allow three new color additives made from minerals, algae and flower petals

Read full article: FDA will allow three new color additives made from minerals, algae and flower petals

The FDA says it will allow three new color additives made from natural sources to be used in the nation's food supply.

CORRECTS NAME TO MEGYN INSTEAD OF MEGAN - FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

On podcasts, Trump’s surgeon general pick touts organics, questions vaccines and talks spirituality

Read full article: On podcasts, Trump’s surgeon general pick touts organics, questions vaccines and talks spirituality

President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, has appeared on numerous wellness and right-wing podcasts over the past year.

FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megan Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general

Read full article: Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general

President Donald Trump is tapping Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Kidney donor Nija Butler and kidney recipient Ambrealle Brown are photographed the day before graduating from Baton Rouge General's School of Nursing on April 28, 2025 in central Louisiana. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

Daughter says mom 'gave me life twice' with kidney donation as pair graduate nursing school together

Read full article: Daughter says mom 'gave me life twice' with kidney donation as pair graduate nursing school together

Two years after a Louisiana mother donated her kidney to her daughter, the duo graduated together from nursing school.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens during a meeting with Peru's Foreign Affairs Minister Elmer Schialer and Peru's Minister of Defense Walter Astudillo at the Pentagon, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

Read full article: Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify.

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Experts concerned over rise in US measles cases

Read full article: Experts concerned over rise in US measles cases

New analysis shows the number of measles cases reported in the U.S. this year just surpassed 1,000.

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

US infant mortality dropped in 2024. Experts partly credit RSV shots

Read full article: US infant mortality dropped in 2024. Experts partly credit RSV shots

The nation’s infant mortality rate is falling.

A no-contact thermometer, stethoscope and a calendar are seen at the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)

North Dakota is 11th US state with a measles outbreak. Here's what to know

Read full article: North Dakota is 11th US state with a measles outbreak. Here's what to know

North Dakota is the 11th state in the U.S. with a measles outbreak.

FILE In this Feb. 6, 2020 file photo, a man buys a face mask at a pharmacy in Kitwe, Zambia. Zambia faces a Friday deadline to clear debt owed to external investors who have rejected the country's request for deferral of an overdue $42.5 million interest payment amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emmanuel Mwiche/File)

US says it will reduce health aid to Zambia because medicines were stolen and sold

Read full article: US says it will reduce health aid to Zambia because medicines were stolen and sold

The United States will cut $50 million worth of medical aid a year to Zambia because of “systematic” theft of the aid in past years and the government’s failure to crack down on corruption.

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies

Read full article: Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies

A U.S.-based aid group says that Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced the closure of its community soup kitchens.

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Cancer before age 50 is increasing. A new study looks at which types

Read full article: Cancer before age 50 is increasing. A new study looks at which types

A new U.S. government study provides the most complete picture yet of early-onset cancers, defined as cancer diagnosed before age 50.

Commissioner Raquel Regalado warns of consequences, says decision lacked scientific review

Decision to remove fluoride from Miami-Dade waters signals divide between commissioners

Read full article: Decision to remove fluoride from Miami-Dade waters signals divide between commissioners

Miami-Dade County commissioners voted Tuesday to remove fluoride from the county’s drinking water, reversing a decades-old public health measure that local dentists and public officials say has helped prevent tooth decay since 1958.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump's tax breaks bill

Read full article: GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump's tax breaks bill

As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.

FILE - The U.S. Social Security Administration office is seen in Mount Prospect, Ill., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

More older Americans worry Social Security won't be there for them, an AP-NORC poll finds

Read full article: More older Americans worry Social Security won't be there for them, an AP-NORC poll finds

A poll finds that as the Social Security Administration undergoes massive changes and staffing cuts ushered in by the Trump administration, an increasing share of older Americans, particularly Democrats, aren’t confident the benefit will be available to them.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says

Read full article: US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says

The U.S. Health and Human Services department will start a research project to examine medical data and records of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees who have been diagnosed with autism, health secretary Robert F.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care

Read full article: House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care

House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.

FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Moderna study shows immune response in older adults for a combo flu and COVID-19 shot

Read full article: Moderna study shows immune response in older adults for a combo flu and COVID-19 shot

A combination shot for flu and COVID-19 using messenger RNA generated antibodies in a company-funded study.

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, is welcomed by Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama at the Kryeministria in Tirana, Albania, Thursday May 15, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)
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Britain says it's talking with some countries to set up migrant return hubs

Read full article: Britain says it's talking with some countries to set up migrant return hubs
FILE - Cassie Ventura, left, and Sean "Diddy" Combs, arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story" at the Writers Guild Theater, June 21, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP File)
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The Latest: Cassie now faces cross-examination after exposing Diddy's violence

Read full article: The Latest: Cassie now faces cross-examination after exposing Diddy's violence
FILE - A shopper passes by the display of cartons of eggs in a Walmart store Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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US wholesale prices dropped 0.5% last month despite President Trump's tariffs

Read full article: US wholesale prices dropped 0.5% last month despite President Trump's tariffs
FILE - A hiring sign is displayed at a grocery store in Northbrook, Ill., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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US applications for jobless benefits hold firm as layoffs remain low despite tariff uncertainty

Read full article: US applications for jobless benefits hold firm as layoffs remain low despite tariff uncertainty
Press conference held after Miami-Dade commissioners vote to remove fluoride from county’s water

‘This shouldn’t be forced on people’: DeSantis to sign statewide fluoride ban into law

Read full article: ‘This shouldn’t be forced on people’: DeSantis to sign statewide fluoride ban into law

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a statewide ban on water fluoridation into law after holding a press conference in Miami on Tuesday.

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Combating common problem of lower back pain

Read full article: Combating common problem of lower back pain

It’s a leading cause of disability in the United States.

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program

Read full article: Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program

The Food and Drug Administration says that a prominent medical contrarian and critic of the drug industry will head its vaccine center.

FILE - A sign with the company's logo stands outside a Rite Aid store in Salem, N.H., on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

What customers can expect as Rite Aid closes or sells all its drugstores

Read full article: What customers can expect as Rite Aid closes or sells all its drugstores

Rite Aid customers can expect their local store to close or change ownership in the next few months as the struggling drugstore chain goes through another bankruptcy filing.

A patient receives a dental procedure at Salt Lake Donated Dental Services, a clinic serving low-income Utah residents, Monday, May 5, 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

How Utah dentists are preparing patients for the first statewide fluoride ban

Read full article: How Utah dentists are preparing patients for the first statewide fluoride ban

Utah dentists say they’re bracing for an increase in tooth decay among the state’s most vulnerable people.

Spencer Goidel, an Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist with the Internal Revenue Service who was notified his job would be eliminated as part of the government's efficiency cuts, stands for a portrait outside his home in Boca Raton, Fla., April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)

Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings

Read full article: Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings

Layoffs of disabled workers across the federal government are raising questions about its commitment to inclusion.

Andrea Watkins, left, and Dr. Andrea Holmes, right, co-owners of Kind Life Dispensary that sells an array of products containing hemp-based THC, poses for a photo in their shop in Lincoln, Neb., May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

A GOP Nebraska bill would criminalize hemp-based THC. Opponents say it could make grandma a felon

Read full article: A GOP Nebraska bill would criminalize hemp-based THC. Opponents say it could make grandma a felon

A bill winding its way through the Nebraska Legislature would criminalize the sale and possession of an array of products containing hemp-based THC.

FILE - Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, speaks during a press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 24, 2025. (Roman Levchkenko/UNAIDS via AP, file)

UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears

Read full article: UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears

The United Nations agency that fights HIV says it plans to slash its workforce by more than half as a result of sweeping funding cuts from longtime donors in the United States, Asia and Europe.

FILE - A worker welds a section of the F-111 class frigate's fuselage at a workshop in the Navantia shipyard in Ferrol, northwest Spain, on April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Spanish bill to cut workweek to 37.5 hours heads to parliament after receiving government approval

Read full article: Spanish bill to cut workweek to 37.5 hours heads to parliament after receiving government approval

Workers in Spain may soon have 2.5 more hours of weekly rest after the government approved a bill that would reduce the workweek from 40 hours to 37.5 hours.

FILE - The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

Read full article: Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

President Donald Trump's administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

FILE - Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson participates in an election forum, in Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Michigan governor candidate says miscarriage prompted her to prioritize reproductive health access

Read full article: Michigan governor candidate says miscarriage prompted her to prioritize reproductive health access

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor in 2026 and sharing new anecdotes in her upcoming political memoir, “The Purposeful Warrior,” including her experience with miscarriage.

FILE - This 2009 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a large group of Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium bacteria that had been isolated from a pure culture. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File)

New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

Read full article: New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says

Health officials say at least seven people in six states have been affected in a new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry.

DeSantis touts $47 million facility as part of long-term investment in the Florida Keys

Florida Keys gets new reverse osmosis plant to strengthen emergency water supply

Read full article: Florida Keys gets new reverse osmosis plant to strengthen emergency water supply

A new reverse osmosis water treatment facility is now open in the Lower Keys, providing a backup supply of drinking water during emergencies and peak demand periods.

Pope Francis arrives on the popemobile to meet with members of the Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation) Catholic lay movement in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Oct.15, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis donated a popemobile to serve as a mobile health unit for Gaza children

Read full article: Pope Francis donated a popemobile to serve as a mobile health unit for Gaza children

Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza, officials said Monday.

FILE - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

Read full article: 20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.

FILE - The Queen Mary 2 prepares to depart the Red Hook Terminal, bound for Southampton, England, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

How cruise ship passengers can stay safe from the latest version of norovirus

Read full article: How cruise ship passengers can stay safe from the latest version of norovirus

Americans planning cruise ship vacations may have new concerns this spring and summer.

FILE - Demonstrators hold a rally in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in front of the agency's headquarters in Atlanta, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, after layoffs were announced. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

Read full article: Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

Dr. Joshua Williams, a pediatrician whose federal funding for a vaccine awareness program was cut, examines 12-year-old patient Tiovian Darden in Denver on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study

Read full article: A community rallied to share flu shot experiences. Then the government stopped the study

Some Denver parents got texts during this winter's brutal flu season with videos sharing why people in their neighborhoods chose flu shots for their kids.

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