A federal health panel has endorsed an experimental cancer test that uses a blood sample to detect multiple forms of the disease.

A new survey points to economic frustration among a key group that has largely backed Donald Trump and other Republicans in recent elections.

Deb Robertson has become a leading advocate for end-of-life options in Illinois.

About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office.

Emma and Sofia Ego are heading into their next big chapter — freshman year at the University of Michigan. But before they could get there, the identical twins from Clarkston each had to fight the same battle: Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration directive that would have barred some immigrants from accessing Head Start preschools, plus other federal programs.

Vice President JD Vance and White House officials are announcing plans to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges.

It’s something a lot of us do -- pick up that phone before bed, and suddenly an hour has passed, and you can’t sleep because you’ve gone down a rabbit hole of negative content. It’s called doomscrolling, and a new poll says more people do it than we think.

China is now requiring permits for exports to the U.S., Mexico, and Canada of two additional chemicals used to make illegal drugs.

For cancer patients and their loved ones, choosing where to receive care involves more than finding a physician; it can also mean looking for specialized expertise, coordinated support and a team trained to guide them through treatment, recovery and survivorship.

Pope Leo XIV opens a four-day visit to France this weekend that is expected to touch on church teaching about the value of all human life.

Patrick Clancy gave his first televised interview on "60 Minutes" on CBS News.

Congo has begun vaccinating healthcare staff against Ebola in Bunia, the epicenter of the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in history.

It's not hard to explain why business is booming for telehealth companies.

Italian health authorities are seeing evidence that rising temperatures and longer warm seasons are helping mosquitoes spread West Nile virus across a wider area, during more months of the year.

West African laboratory scientists are urging governments to strengthen their capacity to detect disease outbreaks to prevent another major crisis.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood.

Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue in decades, and the toll now includes a death.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

President Donald Trump announced that all 50 states will join a program to provide Most Favored Nation pricing for some Medicaid drugs.

The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn’t listen to him.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States, up to 3.8 million young athletes suffer a concussion.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells anti-vaccine activists from an organization he once chaired that they have a friend in the White House.

Pregnancy and new parenthood can raise complicated issues for women in the workplace.

At least 48 people have died after consuming a locally brewed alcoholic concoction in southern Nigeria’s Ondo state.

The fast-paced, high-stakes work of emergency medicine has been dramatized in television shows such as “ER” and “The Pitt.” But long before those fictional emergency departments captured viewers’ attention, the specialty was taking shape in Detroit.

The heart’s right and left sides perform different jobs to keep blood moving through the body. When either side becomes too weak or stiff to function effectively, the result may be heart failure.

The World Health Organization reports encouraging signs in the fight against an Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, has faced scrutiny over her stance on childhood vaccines.

The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan has surpassed a record 100,000 this year.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is proposing free home visits from nurses for every new parent in the state and expanded mental health screenings for new mothers.

Pennsylvania officials are reporting a fourth measles-associated death.

Phil and Penny Knight have committed $1.1 billion to build Oregon's first hospital dedicated to women's health at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.

An English judge has issued a scathing report blaming dysfunctional management for failing to protect babies at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven infants.

Parents know how convenient packaged snacks can be for feeding hungry kids. But what’s actually in those products may go beyond what’s written on the label.

Bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease have been found in a Yankee Stadium cooling tower in New York City.

A Pennsylvania woman's death is the state's third this year involving the measles virus.

The FBI is assisting local, state, and federal agencies in investigating a suspected hazardous substance reported in Hastings.

Thousands of people have gathered in Romania’s capital to set a Guinness World Record with a miles-long table made of recycled materials.

New blood tests are helping doctors diagnose whether Alzheimer’s or something else is causing a patient’s memory problems.

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years.

U.S. health officials have declared the largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in the country's history over.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to seven provinces in the country, local authorities said.

Experts say children need to struggle with everyday problems to develop independence.

U.K. lawmakers have voted down a bill allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives.

Here’s what’s going around Metro Detroit

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is asking a Massachusetts judge to acquit her of charges that she killed her three young children.

A California couple’s surrogate, who refused their wishes to have an abortion, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious heart defect.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its epicenter, according to Africa's top health body.

A possible human case of West Nile Virus was detected in Oakland County, according to officials Thursday.

The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to about 1 million ACA enrollees across 30 states.

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign launched by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, pledged $100 million Thursday to make childbirth safer in the U.S. The five-year plan aims to cut the maternal mortality rate in half by 2031.

Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water.

Research shows that 1 in 5 women will experience depression or anxiety during or after pregnancy, and those numbers are trending up.

A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries.

A Pennsylvania coroner confirms that the two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths.

A major American aid group has promised to send more medicines to high-need areas around the world with the support of a record large donation.

A panel of federal judges is considering Louisiana's assertion that mifepristone, a key drug in the most common abortion method in the U.S., should not be dispensed anywhere but a medical facility.

Bangladesh is struggling to tackle a measles outbreak that has killed almost 1,000 children this year despite a renewed vaccination campaign.

A jury foreperson says the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial said he had reasonable doubt but still wouldn’t acquit.

The Trump administration named four officials to take over senior roles at the Food and Drug Administration, including the agency’s top leaders for drugs and vaccines.

The ongoing outbreak of cyclospora tied to iceberg lettuce has raised new concerns about the safety of imported produce — and underscores a worrisome trend: The U.S. is conducting fewer inspections to catch contaminated food.

U.S. ostrich farmers say they’re finding new customers who developed a red meat allergy triggered by tick bites.

The United States plans to phase out financial support for Namibia's HIV response programs.

Diagnosing endometriosis is often a challenge.

Chimpanzees once used in hepatitis B vaccine experiments are getting health checks at their new home in Liberia.

A hearing later this month could determine the next steps in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy.

The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity.

A judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial Friday after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether she was criminally responsible when she strangled her three young children.

A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder case are trying to decide whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children at her Massachusetts home in 2023.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has gone home without a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations.

The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has gone home again without a verdict.

Marijuana is more available, more potent, and more accepted than ever before. But a major new study is pushing back on the idea that it is harmless.

Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall.

If a Massachusetts jury can't reach a verdict on whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled her three children in 2023, a mistrial will be declared and then prosecutors will have to decide whether to retry Clancy on murder charges.

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the school system in Kansas City, Kansas, over its policies on transgender students.

A growing number of women are skipping routine screenings for cervical cancer. A new study found nearly one in three women in their 20s has never been screened.

A new academic year has started across Congo despite concerns by parents and teachers that the Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicenter.

Everyday actions can become frustrating challenges for people living with essential tremor or tremor caused by Parkinson’s disease. For 79-year-old Jim Jones, they now feel like victories.

Congo’s authorities report that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial have ended a third day of deliberating without a verdict.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the suspension of eight officials and criminal proceedings after a fire killed 14 newborns at an Islamabad hospital.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder case are trying to decide whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children at her Massachusetts home in 2023.

When kitchen burnout hits, figuring out what to make for dinner every day can feel like an impossible task.

The recent announcement of Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in decades has ignited a public feud among politicians and health officials who disagree over the role of the contagious disease in the fatalities.

E-cigarette maker Juul Labs has received U.S. permission to sell an updated version of its vaping device.

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide.

Jurors have been excused for the day after not yet reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.

Congo government figures show that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo.

Joan Rubinger, a nurse practitioner, built a sports medicine practice treating top athletes.

A beloved New Orleans hospital building where doctors and nurses heroically treated patients without electricity after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is poised for redevelopment.

Congo has started vaccinating people against Ebola to combat the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in history.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

U.S. officials have confirmed cases of a parasitic illness tied to lettuce in three more states.

Pregnancy following a loss can be filled with emotions that do not always fit neatly together. The Rainbow Pregnancy Clinic provides specialized medical and emotional support for families navigating this complicated journey.

Teachers at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola outbreak are calling for a delayed reopening of schools due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.