A company that makes baby food for Target is recalling more than 25,000 packages of a product because it may contain elevated levels of lead.

A key vaccine advisory committee is meeting for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts.

Newly released federal statistics show an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, marking another jump in a long string of increases.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts.

Officials in Arkansas and Indiana are moving to ban soft drinks and candy from the program that helps low-income people pay for groceries.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.

A new case of measles is confirmed in Michigan.

A new study has found that fewer people crossed state lines for abortions in 2024 than the previous year.

An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours.

A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to provide $2.8 billion to close the budget hole in the state's Medicaid program.

A man has been arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters after threatening violence.

Donald Trump's doctor says the oldest man elected president is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.

The Wyoming Supreme Court will hear arguments on state abortion bans that a lower court judge has struck down as unconstitutional.

A bipartisan group of representatives have forced a delay in Congress over a proposed rule that would let new parents cast their vote by proxy.

Many people involved in the abortion debate say a movement of so-called abortion abolitionists who want to punish women for having abortions is widening its influence.

Despite its prevalence, many families face long waits, sometimes months, before securing an appointment with a specialist for a diagnosis.

A key program using traditional medicine and foods to tackle chronic disease in Native American and Alaska Native communities has been gutted in the federal health layoffs.

Women gathered at the “Go Red for Women Luncheon” to honor survivors and advance efforts to improve women’s heart health.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

“Euphoria” and former “Grey’s Anatomy” veteran Eric Dane has announced that he has ALS but will continue working.

Hundreds of school districts around the U.S. may have to abandon plans to acquire electric buses after the EPA froze the latest round of money that was part of President Biden’s infrastructure law.

Rugby star Sébastien Chabal won two Six Nations titles with France, reached a World Cup semifinal and played 62 times for his nation as a powerful forward.

President Donald Trump has summed up his annual physical by saying, “I did well.”.

A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them.

Health Secretary Robert F.

Texas state health officials confirmed 20 more cases of measles Tuesday, alongside five new cases in New Mexico.

A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official is telling staff to start planning for the agency’s splintering.

A Vermont firm is recalling more than 1,700 pounds of butter because it may be contaminated with coliform, a type of bacteria found in fecal matter.

Outdoor enthusiasts are worried about the loss of their favorite vistas as President Donald Trump's administration considers weakening a 26-year-old rule designed to improve visibility over national parks and wilderness areas.

The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course on its requirement for all staffers to report to the office.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women.

A New York court has awarded $1.6 billion to more than 100 women who say they were sexually abused by a former pediatrician on Long Island.

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and expand their rights to traditional lands as part of the solution to the world’s climate crisis.

President Donald Trump’s administration has withdrawn 11 pieces of guidance related to the Americans with Disabilities Act that helped stores, hotels and other businesses understand their obligation to the law.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

A California man has pleaded guilty to trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.

Public health officials say a day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, including children too young to be fully vaccinated.

The reality of the Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. foreign assistance are sinking in within the field of international development.

Many parents need child care scholarships to work.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Global chemical manufacturer Bayer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to halt thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn a popular weedkiller could case cancer.

Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran said in an upcoming documentary series that two years before his 2024 All-Star season, the pressures of the sport led him to intense bouts of depression and an attempted suicide.

A medical charity working in Greece says it has diagnosed six young children living in a migrant facility on the eastern Aegean island of Samos as suffering from malnutrition.

A former top vaccine official says he was forced out of government after trying to block Robert F.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Some of the more than a dozen states that cover the high cost of GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound through Medicaid or state employee insurance programs are scrambling to lessen the budgetary squeeze from fast-rising costs.

Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax.

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal industry.

President Donald Trump’s administration has decided not to cover expensive, high-demand obesity treatments under the government-funded Medicare program.

Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers.

Industry groups representing hundreds of chemical and petrochemical manufacturers are seeking blanket exemptions from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.

Sometimes, we all get in a funk, but a recent study suggests that getting your steps in can boost your mood and may even help with more serious symptoms.

The Trump administration has laid off the entire staff of a $4.1 billion program that helps low-income households nationwide pay for heat.

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

A federal judge in Rhode Island says she'll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal public health dollars.

Former heart surgeon and TV pitchman Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee and being handcuffed by police.

Experts say planning before a tornado threatens is key for staying safe.

If you spend the winter season indoors, plan on changing that starting next year.

Employer-sanctioned groups designed to enhance diversity and inclusion began in corporate America in the 1970s to help address tensions around race, gender and sexual orientation.

Boxed into a vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, Georgia Democrats chose a third option Wednesday.

A group of scientists and health groups sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures.

A 50-year-old government survey on drug use may be in jeopardy.

Health secretary Robert F.

The Supreme Court has appeared divided in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk of dementia, too.

Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years.

The Supreme Court is siding with a truck driver who wants to sue for triple damages over a CBD hemp product he says was falsely advertised as being free from marijuana’s active ingredient and resulted in him getting fired.

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday laid off scores of Health and Human Services employees, including many who ran the Head Start early education program.

The Trump administration has paused some family planning grants as it investigates whether the providers are following federal laws.

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday.

Instead of being “suspended,” hearts pump blood, lungs breathe and livers make bile, exactly as they would were they still inside the donor.

In the future, patients can look forward to a quicker recovery post-transplant, as well as better access to donor hearts when one is needed.

The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip.

Attorneys general and other officials from 23 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration for its decision to claw back $11 billion that went to public health departments for COVID-19 efforts and addiction and mental health programs.

Whole and 2% milk has been banned from school meals since 2012.

When pregnant patients and their families receive a prenatal diagnosis of a congenital heart defect (CHD), it sparks warranted concerns and questions.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

The Vatican says Pope Francis spends part of his days at his desk working and concelebrates Mass daily in his private chapel.

The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been forced out.

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health.

There were big smiles, hugs, tears and lots of tail wagging inside San Quentin’s prison recently.

As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back.

Sleep is a vital part of mental and physical health, especially for children and teens, as it plays a crucial role in their growth and development.

Mexico says a government-sponsored junk food ban in schools has taken effect as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.

The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official for allowing “misinformation and lies” to guide his thinking behind the safety of vaccinations.

A groundbreaking initiative could soon be bringing surgeons closer to patients in Africa's remote corners where the doctor-to-patients ratio is among the lowest in the world.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to review military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance opens a Pandora’s box of the widely different rules among the services.

Researchers have performed the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells in hopes of restoring fertility in a man who survived childhood cancer.

Utah has become the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations.

A remote Australian town that will soon lose its only doctor is offering a salary package of up to $680,000 Australian dollars, plus free rent and a car, to attract a new candidate.

The proposed overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could weaken and possibly eliminate a little-known agency that's crucial in helping Americans who struggle with their mental health or with addiction.

Health officials confirm that a Michigan resident who received an organ transplant has died from rabies.