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India’s top court has set up of a task force of doctors who will make recommendations on safety of health care workers at their workplaces

India's Supreme Court has set up a task force on workplace safety at hospitals after doctor was raped and killed

The number of births fell 2% between 2022 and 2023, the report found.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is defending and doubling down on his signature Medicaid program, the only one in the nation with a work requirement

Congo's health minister says the country will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States

Hundreds of doctors are protesting near India's Health Ministry to demand stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital

School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover

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A cholera outbreak has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more recently in Sudan, which has been roiled by a 16-month conflict and devastating floods

Bloomberg health reporter Madison Muller and Dr. Nate Wood break down the latest on how Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are transforming America.

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak

Anger at the Indian government’s failure to deter rising violence against women has fueled protests by medics and women’s groups across Indian cities after a trainee doctor was raped and killed last week

States across the country have implemented strict restrictions around livestock after an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly referred to as “bird flu.”

Now that it’s back-to-school season, parents should add one more crucial item to the checklist

Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research universities have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South as part of an ambitious and unusual new health study

A humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo is contributing to mpox outbreaks there and elsewhere in Africa that have been deemed a global health emergency by the World Health Organization

Prosecutors in Michigan have struck a deal with a pharmacist who is blamed for deaths from a national meningitis outbreak in 2012

Authorities say pharmacist will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter in 11 Michigan deaths tied to bad steroids

Whooping cough infections are returning to pre-pandemic levels with more than 10,800 cases recorded so far this year, more than three times as many as last year.

Syphilis cases have increased nearly 80% from 2018 to 2022, CDC data shows.

Palestinian health officials say the first case of polio has been recorded in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah

More than 10,800 cases have been recorded this year so far.

COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, and data from federal health officials suggests it’s on the upswing around the country

Ketamine is the drug involved in the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry and a powerful anesthetic approved by U.S. health regulators for use during surgery

Many rural hospitals have closed in the last decade in the United States and a recent report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform says about 700 more are at risk of shuttering

Vice President Kamala Harris has announced a sweeping set of economic proposals meant to cut taxes and lower the cost of groceries, housing and other essentials for many Americans

Thousands of people, including doctors and paramedics, are marching through various Indian cities to protest the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital last week

Pakistan’s health ministry says it has identified its first case of mpox this year, days after the World Health Organization declared the spread of mpox a global health emergency

Even before JD Vance got into politics, he has been clear about his concerns regarding birth rates

Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has signed into law a bill that would phase out the use of PFAS in firefighters’ protective gear

The outbreak involves a newer strain primarily seen in African countries.

A watchdog group says “layers of inadequate oversight and enforcement” by state and federal agencies contributed to a water crisis in Mississippi’s capital city

Iowa abortion providers are opting to dismiss their lawsuit against the state since the Iowa Supreme Court allowed a strict abortion law to be enforced

Swedish health officials say they have identified the first case of a person with the more infectious form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo

An 88-year-old Missouri woman was among more than 40 people sickened with listeria food poisoning tied to a deadly outbreak involving Boar's Head deli meats

The Biden administration says Medicare recipients will save about $1.5 billion dollars on medications to for diabetes, heart disease, types of arthritis and other ailments under new prices negotiated with drug companies that will take effect in 2026

Biden administration says list price of 10 drugs commonly used by Medicare recipients will be cut by 38% to 79%

A trainee doctor was raped and killed, sparking protests in several cities and an attack on a medical college campus as doctors and paramedics in several cities across India demand better and safer working conditions

At least 40 athletes tested positive for COVID, according to the WHO.

Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceutical companies to knock down the list prices for 10 of Medicare’s costliest drugs

White House says deals struck to reduce cost of 10 drugs, saving taxpayers and Medicare recipients billions of dollars

As climate change fuels the intensity and frequency of wildfires, it's also driving up the health risks for farmworkers who often have no choice but to continue working amid dangerous levels of smoke

Years after COVID, nearly every state is still struggling with school attendance

Disney is asking a Florida court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the husband of a New York doctor who suffered a fatal allergic reaction after eating at a restaurant in Disney Springs

Montana's Supreme Court ruled that minors don't need their parents' permission to get an abortion in the state

UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns

Athletes who tested positive had to follow certain protocols in order to compete.

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that an informational pamphlet for voters can refer to a fetus as an “unborn human being.”

Arizona high court: Fetus can be referred to as 'unborn human being' in voter pamphlet description of abortion measure