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A federal judge in Texas who has previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation’s health law

ABC News’ Juju Chang sat down with Paul Edmonds to discuss the challenges he has overcome and how he has made medical history.

President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency

Most gig workers in Seattle will be permanently entitled to paid sick leave and safe time under a first-in-the-nation law

Bulls center Andre Drummond missed the team's game against the Los Angeles Lakers after he posted on Twitter that he was deleting his social media apps to focus on his mental health

North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill that Senate lawmakers have approved

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors

A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban abortion last September will see all charges dropped against her — if she stays out of trouble for the next six months

A California lawmaker wants to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with discriminatory LGBTQ laws

GOP lawmakers in Kentucky enact sweeping ban on transgender care for minors by overriding Democratic governor's veto

Pediatric surgeon: "Why are our children being massacred in their schools?"

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have swept aside the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people

Narcan is used to reverse opioid overdoses in patients.

A toxic cauldron on social media is one of the minefields players in the NCAA Tournament must navigate

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved selling overdose antidote naloxone over-the-counter, marking the first time an opioid treatment drug will be available without a prescription

Experts said kids may experience a range of behavioral and psychological issues.

An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mammoth

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Darien Sutton breaks down what the signs of a blood clot are and how to prevent them.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has personally opened his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria

Wizdom Powell, chief social impact and diversity officer at Headspace Health, provides tips for coping with tragedies like the Nashville school shooting.

Children who have lost a parent can feel isolated.

Philadelphia officials say the city's water system will not be affected by contamination following a chemical spill into the Delaware River

The Idaho Senate has passed a bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors, one month after the state House passed similar

A woman accused of setting fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic will be released from jail while her case proceeds

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making

A move into the home health care space could expand care into more isolated communities.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is slated to lead off opening statements expected Tuesday in his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs

Indiana’s Republican General Assembly is advancing a measure to ban virtually all gender-affirming medical care for minors in the state

CVS may be able to expand into rural and isolated communities now.

A bill that would have provided free menstrual products in girls bathrooms in Idaho public schools failed in the state House, with at least one Republican lawmaker calling the proposal “very liberal.”

A well-known Kentucky Republican has blasted the GOP’s push for transgender legislation

A former Republican governor of Vermont has sued Middlebury College, his alma mater, accusing it of cancel culture behavior for removing the name of another former governor and Middlebury graduate from the campus chapel for what the school calls his ro...

Kansas’ highest court has signaled that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution

A new Maryland abortion provider is opening next to deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban

Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill aimed at transgender health care has put Kentucky in the middle of a national fight

GOP lawmakers in states with abortion bans already in place are pushing to make them more restrictive, while blue state officials are trying to expand abortion access

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a bill allowing firing squads to execute death row inmates when lethal injection drugs are unavailable

Hundreds of women are traveling weekly to the southern tip of Illinois to secure an abortion

A Minnesota utility has begun shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis after discovering water containing a low-level of radioactive material was leaking from a pipe for the second time

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water

Nursing home residents and hospital patients are particularly at high risk.

ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel answers viewers' questions about coffee, multivitamins and CBD gummies.

Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed a sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths

Kentucky’s Democratic governor vetoes sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths

Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public

The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it

In reversal for Biden, US appeals court rules against COVID-19 vaccination requirement for federal employees

Arizona had the highest death rates while Hawaii had the lowest.

Four families have filed a federal lawsuit against Florida health officials

Minnesota is moving to strengthen the state’s protections for children and their families who come for gender-affirming care by making itself a “trans refuge state,” bucking a national backlash against transgender rights