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Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered state employees back to full-time in-office work

Why thousands of patients are now moving up on the waitlist.

President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs.

The study looked at brain samples collected in 2024, finding a 50% increase in microplastics compared to samples collected back in 2016.

ABC News examines the historic decision to remove race-based calculations on kidney function, and how it has helped many Black Americans, like Jazmin Evans, receive a transplant sooner.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has asked state legislators to double their spending to date on Hurricane Helene recovery and approve it now

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week

New York Attorney General Letitia James is telling hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing fe...

Higher levels of long COVID were found in lower-income households.

Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the major city in eastern Congo last week

Many Africans knew that Trump’s “America First” outlook meant their continent was likely to be last among his priorities

Researchers were scrambling to collect and archive as much data as possible.

Dr. Patel joins ABC News Live to deliver the latest on bird flu.

A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing through Gaza’s Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday for treatment

The World Health Organization chief is asking global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency

A new study has linked increasing temperatures to growing rat populations.

2,861 deaths from the virus have already been reported in the last 28 days.

A new memo says the Defense Department will no longer reimburse service members for travel out of state to get reproductive health care, including abortions and fertility treatments

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington

A New York doctor has been indicted by a Lousiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country

Joey Luther sold fake Botox that caused side effects, prosecutors claim.

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated children

The drug is for moderate to severe acute pain.

There are over 79 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid.

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital Kampala has died after testing positive for Ebola

Officials believe bird flu has killed wild and domestic birds across the state.

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The second-largest egg producer in the U.S. reported an outbreak on Tuesday.

Johns Hopkins University senior scholar Dr. Amesh Adalja discusses the tuberculosis outbreak happening in the state of Kansas.

So far, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB related to the outbreak.

Dr. Syra Madad, an epidemiologist and chief biopreparedness officer at NYC Heath and Hospitals, explains symptoms and how the bacterial infection spreads.

In 2022, more than 941,600 Americans died from cardiovascular disease.

An Alabama woman became the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant on Saturday, which marked 61 days since she received it.

President Trump’s first week in office included a flurry of executive orders with implications for Earth’s climate and environment

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients...

This is a MedPage Today story. Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with COVID. Hayes is too sick to work, so she has spent much of the last 4 years sitting on her beige couch, often curled up under an electric blanket. "My blood flow now sucks, so my hands and my feet are freezing. Even if I'm sweating, my toes are cold," said Hayes, who lives in Western Pennsylvania. She misses feeling well enough to play with her 9-year-old son or attend her 17-year-old son's baseball games. Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event. Hayes is one of millions of Americans who suffer from long COVID. Depending on the patient, the condition can rob someone of energy, scramble the autonomic nervous system, or fog their memory, among many other symptoms. In addition to the brain fog and chronic fatigue, Hayes' constellation of symptoms includes frequent hives and migraines....

Fitness expert Joey Thurman discusses his new wellness challenge “commit not to quit” and it’s potential to better your body, mind and soul.

The American Cancer Society Thursday released its annual statistics on trends regarding who is being diagnosed -- and who is dying -- from cancer.