Federal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared with this time last year.

Arkansas has enacted a law making it the first state banning pharmacy benefit managers from owning a pharmacy in the state.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition.

The World Health Organization's member countries have agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis.

Health secretary Robert F.

Experts tend to focus on the kinds of foods you can eat to improve your health.

An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.

A man has been arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters after threatening violence.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to provide $2.8 billion to close the budget hole in the state's Medicaid program.

Many people involved in the abortion debate say a movement of so-called abortion abolitionists who want to punish women for having abortions is widening its influence.

Donald Trump's doctor says the oldest man elected president is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

Health Secretary Robert F.

Rugby star Sébastien Chabal won two Six Nations titles with France, reached a World Cup semifinal and played 62 times for his nation as a powerful forward.

The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course on its requirement for all staffers to report to the office.

A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them.

A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official is telling staff to start planning for the agency’s splintering.

A Vermont firm is recalling more than 1,700 pounds of butter because it may be contaminated with coliform, a type of bacteria found in fecal matter.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Indiana announced a new measles outbreak Wednesday.

Doctors are reporting an increase in “overuse” injuries in minors. Most of the injuries involve knees, shoulders, elbows, and ankles. 

Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women.

A New York court has awarded $1.6 billion to more than 100 women who say they were sexually abused by a former pediatrician on Long Island.

Public health officials say a day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, including children too young to be fully vaccinated.

President Donald Trump’s administration has withdrawn 11 pieces of guidance related to the Americans with Disabilities Act that helped stores, hotels and other businesses understand their obligation to the law.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

A California man has pleaded guilty to trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is expected to veto a controversial commission vote that would make the county’s water fluoride-free starting June 1.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.