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Nikki Haley is gaining attention in the GOP race with her calls for “consensus” around abortion, an unusual tone in a campaign where Republican White House hopefuls often prefer to highlight their eagerness to fight President Joe Biden and other Democrats

ABCNL's Elizabeth Schulze sits with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and our panel to discuss the resurgence of COVID and the new booster shot.

ABC News contributor Dr. Alok Patel discusses a new study that finds a link between work stress and increased risk for heart disease in men.

U.S. health officials are recommending RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be as a second option to protect newborns

Hospital staff say lessons learned have made them better prepared.

The vaccine would provide protection to babies before they're born.

Hospital staff say lessons learned have made them better prepared.

Minneapolis officials plan to transfer two city-owned properties to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life

Maryland surgeons for the second time have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man

Plus, what you need to know about your immune system and COVID.

Some adults in North Carolina will soon get Medicaid coverage because Gov. Roy Cooper says he'll let the state budget bill become law

Immunity wanes after anywhere from three to six months, experts say.

Some medical providers are dropping continuing gender-affirming care for minors, even though it remains legal

About a half-million people are regaining Medicaid coverage after the federal government says they were dropped inappropriately by states

Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration is beginning the process to remove medical bills from people’s credit scores

Pfizer and Moderna say they have sent out millions of doses of the new COVID-19 vaccines in the past week

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued an anti-abortion group and a chain of anti-abortion counseling centers, saying the organizations misled women when they offered unproven treatments to reverse medication abortions

A federal appeals court is considering cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia that could have significant implications on whether individual states are required to cover health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has released a plan to try to ease some financial problems for hospitals

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has released a plan to try to ease some financial problems for hospitals

Prosecutors say a 73-year-old man has pleaded guilty to driving a car into a planned abortion clinic in eastern Illinois and trying to set the building on fire earlier this year

An Idaho man has contracted measles, and health officials are working to contact anyone who may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities

The Seattle City Council has adopted an ordinance that makes illegal drug use and possession a gross misdemeanor, after rejecting a similar measure earlier this summer

The Senate has confirmed Gen. CQ Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month

The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia pscyhiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state, county and the sheriff whose deputies were inv...

Family of man who died after he was pinned while being admitted to a psychiatric hospital agrees to an $8.5M settlement

The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household

The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household

The influential abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America has changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million to help save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth

Babies with CS were more likely to be premature or have low birth weight.

Washington’s revolving door kept spinning this week as the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recently departed second-in-command returned for another stint with a high-powered consulting firm where he previously advised OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

The Ohio Supreme Court says a portion of the description of a ballot question enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution is misleading

Much of the progress made since the start of the century has been reversed.

Dr. Alok Patel breaks down what you need to know about sport injuries and how to protect your kids as events ramp up this school year.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve a nasal spray to treat severe allergic reactions, calling for more research on what would have been the first alternative to injections using devices such as an EpiPen

The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch effort to revive criminal charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal

The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch effort to revive criminal charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal

Britain’s state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England as doctors in the early stages of their careers joined their more senior colleagues in their first-ever joint strike action

One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia, where all of the state House and Senate seats are up for reelection

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members on Valentine’s Day in 2018

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Attorneys for a University of North Carolina graduate student say he is not competent to stand trial in the killing of his academic advisor

COVID hospitalizations are still below the peak level during the omicron wave.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has delivered an ominous prophecy with grandiose language

Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to cleanup homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in California’s capital city

Sacramento prosecutor sues California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments

Prosecutors have charged a New York City man with performing acupuncture without a license after they say he punctured a woman’s lungs during treatment, sending her to a hospital for emergency surgery