Health

The young girl could not get an abortion in Ohio because the state now bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.

Acute trauma was the most common cause, followed by respiratory health reasons and gastrointestinal issues.

At his heaviest, the Missourian, who travels frequently for his sales job and has “lived on expense accounts” for decades, weighed about 540 pounds.

The whiplash of Texas clinics turning away patients, rescheduling them, and now potentially canceling appointments again illustrates the confusion and scrambling taking place across the country since Roe was overturned.

Parents of babies, especially those with developmental delays or special needs, are being warned not to use these neck pillow flotation devices.

One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin, health officials said Thursday. The CDC says nearly all the 23 people known to have been infected in the outbreak either live in or traveled to Florida about a month before they got sick.

One clinic in Austin, Texas, said it usually gets about eight calls a day on average for a vasectomy consultation, but after last week’s Supreme Court decision, the number of calls has skyrocketed to 100 a day, on average.

More than a month after a leak that sent shockwaves across the country, justices of the United States Supreme Court overturned a landmark 1970s ruling that paved the way for legalized abortions in the United States. Here's what you should know about Roe v. Wade, in addition to the controversies surrounding it.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday state-funded travel to Arizona, Indiana, Utah and Louisiana will be restricted as a result of recently passed anti-transgender legislation in those states.

A huge Belgian chocolate factory has halted production after detecting salmonella in a batch of chocolates.

"This is science at its toughest," FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Mark said of whether to offer modified COVID-19 booster shots this fall due to the changing coronavirus.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, announced that Elmo had gotten vaccinated in public service announcement posted to YouTube.

Researchers have diagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a Major League Soccer player for the first time.

Some U.S. adults are a step closer to getting updated COVID-19 boosters this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak shots to better match the most recent virus variants.

For generally healthy and non-pregnant adults, experts said there's no "magic set of pills" — noting how diet and exercise are key.

The pills were in short supply or out of stock on Monday morning on the retailers' websites.

California voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their state constitution.