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India's top court creates task force on workplace safety after doctor was raped and killed

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
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Indians protesting against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital in Kolkata, hold placards in Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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India's Supreme Court has set up a task force on workplace safety at hospitals after doctor was raped and killed

India's Supreme Court has set up a task force on workplace safety at hospitals after doctor was raped and killed
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August 20

US births fell in 2023, ending 2 years of upticks during pandemic, CDC report finds

The number of births fell 2% between 2022 and 2023, the report found.
August 20
August 19

Georgia governor doubles down on Medicaid program with work requirement despite slow start

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is defending and doubling down on his signature Medicaid program, the only one in the nation with a work requirement
August 19
FILE - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the State of the State speech on Jan. 11, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
August 19

Congo says it will receive its first mpox vaccines next week to address new global emergency

Congo's health minister says the country will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States
August 19
A girl suffering from mpox waits for treatment at a clinic in Munigi, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country's health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
August 19

Indian doctors demand tougher laws after a colleague was raped and killed at a hospital

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
August 19
An Indian protesting against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital in Kolkata, wears black ribbon in Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
August 19

Got cold symptoms? Here's when kids should take a sick day from school

School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover
August 19
FILE - Fifth graders wearing face masks are seated at proper social distancing during a music class at the Milton Elementary School in Rye, N.Y., May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
August 18
Perdue products sit in a poultry section of a supermarket in Palisades Park, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Pablo Salinas)
August 18

Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, health minister says

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
August 18
U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello talks to the media about talks aimed on Sudan during a press briefing at the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. Perriello traveled to Switzerland to lead the United States delegation at talks aimed at a cessation of hostilities in Sudan. The talks are scheduled to start on Wednesday, Aug. 14. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
August 17

How weight loss drugs are transforming America

Bloomberg health reporter Madison Muller and Dr. Nate Wood break down the latest on how Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are transforming America.
August 17
VIDEO: How weight loss drugs are transforming America
August 17

Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations

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
August 17
FILE - Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, walk through a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on July 4, 2024. Health authorities and aid agencies are racing to avert an outbreak of polio in the Gaza Strip after the virus was detected in the territory's wastewater and three cases with a suspected polio symptom have been reported. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
August 17

What to know as India's medics and women protest the rape and killing of a doctor

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
August 17
CORRECTS TO CHANGE THE TERM MURDER TO KILLING - College students hold candles as they stage a protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital last week, in Guwahati, India, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
August 17

Bird flu restrictions cause heartache for 4-H kids unable to show off livestock at fairs across US

States across the country have implemented strict restrictions around livestock after an outbreak of avian influenza, commonly referred to as “bird flu.”
August 17
Osceola County 4-H member Alison Smith tends to a heifer named Evergreen Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, on a farm in Hersey Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)
August 17

Make eye exams part of the back-to-school checklist. Your kids and their teachers will thank you

Now that it’s back-to-school season, parents should add one more crucial item to the checklist
August 17
Optometrist Annette Webb checks a patient's eyes in her office in Hot Springs, Ark., on Aug. 7, 2024. (Adam Miller via AP)
August 17

Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why

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
August 17
A billboard for a new study about why heart and lung disease is so much higher in the rural South is seen in Napoleonville, La., on May 8, 2024. (Sean Coady/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute via AP)
August 17

Congo's humanitarian crisis helped mpox spiral again into a global health emergency

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
August 17
Faustin Mahoro, head of the Bulengo refugee camp in Goma, Congo, speaks with Sarah Bagheni after the World Health Organization had declared Thursday, Aug, 15, 2024, the increasing spread of mpox in Africa a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international border. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
August 16

Pharmacist blamed for deaths in US meningitis outbreak will plead no contest in Michigan case

Prosecutors in Michigan have struck a deal with a pharmacist who is blamed for deaths from a national meningitis outbreak in 2012
August 16
FILE - Michigan Assistant Attorney General Shawn Ryan speaks in court, as pharmacist Glenn Chin, is seated, far left, in Howell, Mich., Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ed White, File)
August 16

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

Authorities say pharmacist will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter in 11 Michigan deaths tied to bad steroids
August 16
August 16

Whooping cough cases 3 times higher than last year

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.
August 16
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.
August 16

FDA authorizes 1st over-the-counter, at-home test for syphilis

Syphilis cases have increased nearly 80% from 2018 to 2022, CDC data shows.
August 16
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing authorization to NOWDiagnostics for the First To Know Syphilis Test.
August 16

First case of polio confirmed in a 10-month-old child in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say

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
August 16
FILE - Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, walk through a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on July 4, 2024. Health authorities and aid agencies are racing to avert an outbreak of polio in the Gaza Strip after the virus was detected in the territory's wastewater and three cases with a suspected polio symptom have been reported. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
August 16

Whooping cough cases 3 times higher than last year in return to pre-pandemic levels

More than 10,800 cases have been recorded this year so far.
August 16
Conceptual biomedical illustration of the bacteria Bordetella pertussis is seen in an undated stock photo.
August 16

COVID-19 is on the upswing in the US

COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, and data from federal health officials suggests it’s on the upswing around the country
August 16
August 16

What is ketamine, the drug involved in Matthew Perry's death?

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
August 16
United States Attorney Martin Estrada, at podium, takes questions from the media after announcing court filings related to the death of actor Matthew Perry in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
August 16

Rural communities of color across the US find new ways to get the health care they need

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
August 16
Michael Dennis, left, 25, a second-year Campbell Medical Student, and Genesis Garcia, right, 22, an NC FIELD intern, draw blood from Sabino Reyes, a farmworker, at a mobile health clinic organized by NC FIELD outside María, Reina de las Américas Catholic Church in Mt. Olive, N.C., on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The mobile clinic is adapted to treat rural patients, many of them agricultural workers, who often work during normal office hours, lack health insurance and face language barriers. (Angelica Edwards/Enlace Latino NC, CatchLight Local via AP)
August 16

Harris offers proposals to cut food and housing costs, trying to blunt Trump's economic attacks

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
August 16
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris visits Bayleaf Market with North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
August 16

Protests grow in India over the rape and killing of a doctor at a state-run hospital

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
August 16
Activists of Socialist Unity Center of India-Marxist (SUCI-N) block a road with placards during a protest rally following a rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a government hospital, in Kolkata, India, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
August 16

Pakistan's health ministry confirms a case of mpox but tests being done for variant

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
August 16
August 16

Praise for Hungary and people having more children: Takeaways from Vance's statements on birth rates

Even before JD Vance got into politics, he has been clear about his concerns regarding birth rates
August 16
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio speaks at a campaign event, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Byron Center, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
August 16

She fought to become a midwife. Now she’s fighting to save mothers and their babies in South Sudan

Elizabeth Nyachiew was 16 when she watched her neighbor bleed to death during childbirth
August 16
Nyalith Mauit, cradles her one-day old son on a bed in the Doctors Without Borders in Bentiu-run hospital in Bantiu, South Sudan, Monday, June 24,2024, after she lost one of her twins while giving birth. South Sudan's health system suffers, even though the relative peace gives many women easier access to care. The government allocates less than 2% of the national budget to the health ministry. Much of the health system is propped up by aid groups and the international community. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
August 15

Massachusetts governor signs law phasing out toxic PFAS in firefighters' gear

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has signed into law a bill that would phase out the use of PFAS in firefighters’ protective gear
August 15
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs into law a bill that would phase out the use of PFAS, a group of toxic industrial compounds, in firefighters' protective gear, at the Massachusetts Statehouse, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, in Boston. The chemical, associated with health problems including several types of cancer, is used in gear to repel water and other substances when fighting a fire. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)
August 15

Mpox was declared a global public health emergency by the WHO. Now what?

The outbreak involves a newer strain primarily seen in African countries.
August 15
The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, May 21, 2023.
August 15

Water crisis in Mississippi capital developed during failures in oversight, watchdog says

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
August 15
FILE - EPA Administrator Michael Regan, right, speaks to reporters at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, a Ridgeland, Miss.-based facility near Jackson, Miss., about the city's longstanding water issues, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
August 15

Iowa abortion providers dismiss legal challenge against state's strict law now that it's in effect

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
August 15
FILE - A PlannedParenthood sign is displayed outside the clinic, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file)
August 15

Sweden reports 1st case of more infectious form of mpox first identified in Congo

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
August 15
State epidemiologist Magnus Gisslén, from left, Olivia Wigzell, acting director general of the Public Health Agency and Social minister Jakob Forssmed give a press conference to inform about the situation regarding mpox, in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday Aug. 15, 2024. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
August 15

88-year-old victim in deli meat outbreak underscores risks for those most vulnerable

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
August 15
Sue Fleming, who was among more than 40 people sickened with listeria food poisoning tied to a deadly outbreak, right, and her husband Patrick Fleming sit in their home on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 in High Ridge, Mo. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
August 15

Drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease and blood cancers among those affected by price negotiations

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
August 15
President Joe Biden speaks about the administration's efforts to lower prescription drug costs during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
August 15

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

Biden administration says list price of 10 drugs commonly used by Medicare recipients will be cut by 38% to 79%
August 15
August 15

A trainee doctor is raped and killed in India, sparking protests and an attack at a medical college

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
August 15
A family hold candle light as they join protesters in a midnight rally protesting against the murder of a 31 year old post-graduate trainee demanding proper investigation in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
August 15

Why the Summer Olympic Games in Paris may have been a COVID 'success' story: Experts

At least 40 athletes tested positive for COVID, according to the WHO.
August 15
COVID-stricken Noah Lyles lies on the track after competing in the men's 200-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.
August 15

White House says prescription drug deals will produce billions in savings for taxpayers, seniors

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
August 15
FILE - President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
August 15

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

White House says deals struck to reduce cost of 10 drugs, saving taxpayers and Medicare recipients billions of dollars
August 15
August 15

Wildfires are growing under climate change, and their smoke threatens farmworkers, study says

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
August 15
FILE - A man glances up at a tree that is blocking his way while attempting to go home after a fire ravaged the area on Mix Canyon Road in Vacaville, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)
August 15

Schools have made slow progress on record absenteeism, with millions of kids still skipping class

Years after COVID, nearly every state is still struggling with school attendance
August 15
Melinda Gonzalez, 14, poses at Fresno High School where she'll be a freshman in Fresno, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
August 14

Disney argues wrongful death suit should be tossed because plaintiff signed up for a Disney+ trial

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
August 14
FILE - A Disney logo forms part of a Disney Plus menu on a computer screen in Walpole, Mass., on Nov. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
August 14

Montana Supreme Court rules minors don't need parental permission for abortion

Montana's Supreme Court ruled that minors don't need their parents' permission to get an abortion in the state
August 14
August 14

Extreme heat increasingly endangers children in West and Central Africa, UNICEF says

UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns
August 14
FILE - Amadou Coulibaly, a motorcycle taxi driver, drinks a sachet water to cool off under a blazing sun in Bamako, Mali, on April, 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File)
August 14

How rampant was COVID during the Olympics?

Athletes who tested positive had to follow certain protocols in order to compete.
August 14
Athletes who tested positive had to follow certain protocols in order to compete.
August 14

Ruling: Fetus can be referred to as 'unborn human being' in Arizona abortion measure voter pamphlet

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that an informational pamphlet for voters can refer to a fetus as an “unborn human being.”
August 14
FILE - Arizona abortion-rights supporters gather for a news conference prior to delivering more than 800,000 petition signatures to the state Capitol to get abortion rights on the November general election ballot, July 3, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
August 14

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

Arizona high court: Fetus can be referred to as 'unborn human being' in voter pamphlet description of abortion measure
August 14