An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America in a dangerous heat dome this week with triple-digit heat that hasn’t been seen in some places in more than a decade.

The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care delays and complications.

A new report finds that the number of abortions in the U.S. grew in 2024 as more women obtained pills through telehealth.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a bill to ban all THC products.

Thousands of people across India stretched themselves in public parks and on sandy beaches to mark the 11th International Day of Yoga by practising the ancient physical, mental and spiritual discipline.

Everyone needs protein — it's vital for the growth, repair and maintenance of your muscles, bones and skin.

A judge has advanced OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

A popular children’s cough syrup sold nationwide has been recalled due to a possible risk of bacterial contamination.

U.K. lawmakers have backed a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law.

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire 100,000-bird flock in January.

The 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will stop providing tailored support options to LGBTQ+ youth and young adults on July 17.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is leaving transgender children and their parents uncertain and anxious about its impact.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

A new COVID-19 variant may be causing “razor blade” sore throats in people who get it.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Tennessee did not violate the constitution by banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

A televangelist in Kenya who was notorious for claiming to cure infertility in women died in a car crash on Tuesday.

The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security’s trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security benefits have contributed to closer projected depletion dates.

More employers are putting health insurance decisions in the hands of workers.

A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettucine alfredo products sold at Kroger and Walmart stores.

An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer says the Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors is “a devastating loss for transgender people” and "everyone who cares about the Constitution.”.

A judge intends to rule this week on a plan for local governments and individual victims to vote on OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from unintentional falls, and white people account for the vast majority of the deaths.

The Food and Drug Administration says it will begin offering faster reviews to new medicines that align with Trump administration priorities for Americans' health.

The baby of a Georgia woman who was declared brain dead and has been on life support for months has been delivered.

The Dutch government is advising parents that children under 15 should not use TikTok and Instagram, citing physical and psychological problems including panic attacks, depression and sleeping problems.

Three years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, the funding system for abortions is battered.

Two major food producers say that they will be pulling artificial dyes from their U.S. products starting in 2027.

British lawmakers have voted to decriminalize abortion after a lawmaker argued it was cruel to prosecute women for ending a pregnancy.

A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.

Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics have plunged again after the drugmaker reported a second death in connection with its gene therapy for muscular dystrophy.

The 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel say Health Secretary Robert F.

Four people have been sickened in two states by salmonella poisoning linked to pistachio cream, a nut butter spread.

The Supreme Court is ordering a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded from a state regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions.

The Supreme Court will hear from a faith-based pregnancy center in New Jersey challenging a state investigation into whether it misled people into thinking its services included referrals for abortion.

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting.

A new poll shows most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs Republicans in Congress have focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps.

The prospect of a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients is sparking fears.

An unusual request from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about Cuban medical brigades is roiling countries in the Caribbean and the Americas.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

The California Legislature approves a proposal Friday to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants without legal status.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill plans to send a cease and desist letter to CVS for mass text messages sent to customers lobbying against legislation and is opening an investigation into whether the pharmaceutical giant improperly used customers’ personal information.

Ananda Lewis, the former MTV and BET host who became a beloved television personality in the 1990s with her warmth and authenticity, has died.

A growing number of Black fathers with autistic children are looking to be more visible in the national autism conversation through podcasts, nonprofits and summits that specifically address their experience.

Sedano’s Supermarkets across South Florida are now accepting over the counter and flex benefit cards.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department for allegedly sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.

Health officials want you to think twice before buying brightly colored energy shots and supplements often sold at gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops.

A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education.

Every month, thousands of women evade abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to send them pregnancy-ending drugs through the mail.

Practicing and encouraging gratitude can be a simple way to boost morale at a time when layoffs and economic uncertainty are causing stress and anxiety.

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.

Big changes are being proposed to a food aid program as part of President Donald Trump's tax-cut legislation.

On this week’s Mom to Mom, Local 10’s Nicole Perez sat down with a South Florida mother who had a tragic experience and is making an effort to ensure the same thing does not happen to others.

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state.

A top aide to Health Secretary Robert F.

Harm reductions initiatives are becoming more commonplace at major music festivals, both through partnerships with festival organizers as well as volunteer efforts done without explicit permission.

The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.

Health Secretary Robert F.

The U.S. is up to 1,168 confirmed measles cases this year.

The U.S. is up to 1,214 confirmed measles cases this year.

Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife.

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”.

Federal health officials say a salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest.

A multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs has sickened at least 79 people across seven states, according to a warning issued Saturday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As World Pride wraps up this weekend in Washington D.

A Utah judge has ruled that a convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed.

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at dozens of rules aimed at protecting the environment, including one that requires big polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions.

A federal judge has ruled that two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse, for religious reasons, to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage for such care to their workers.

They’re called the world’s deadliest animal by the CDC.

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.

The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger.

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed rolling back more than two dozen rules aimed at protecting clean air and water, he called it the biggest day for deregulation in American history.

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel last December, Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel” and expressed that killing the executive “conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming."

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is beginning to worsen air quality in the eastern U.S. as several Midwestern states battle conditions deemed unhealthy by the federal government.

Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data.

A federal investigation has found that a Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law.

U.S. agriculture officials are warning that packages of ground beef sold at Whole Foods markets may be contaminated with E.

Federal authorities say they have arrested a Washington man who provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May.

Vietnam has scrapped its long-standing two-child policy as birth rates fall and its population ages.

Texas lawmakers have approved banning gummies, drinks and vapes infused with THC, the compound that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties.

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment.

Health Secretary Robert F.

Fears of Trump Administration funding cuts to fighting the spread of HIV are affecting South Florida programs.

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world.

Self-administered at-home tests are available for everything from thyroid function to HIV to cervical cancer.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years.

In Uganda, where more than 40% of the population live in extreme poverty, many families live in homes with dirt floors.

A ban on disposable vapes has come into force across the U.K. as the British government aims to stem their illegal use by children, reduce litter and prevent the leaking of harmful chemicals into the environment.

A first-of-its-kind experiment shows a three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients.

The Food and Drug administration has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna but with limits on who can use it.

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet.