UK experts recommend chickenpox shot for kids for the first time, decades after other...
LONDON (AP) — An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the...
Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250...
LONDON (AP) — Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization’s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address...
Biden administration slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state...
Nearly two dozen toddlers sickened by lead linked to tainted applesauce pouches, CDC says
U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be on the lookout for possible cases of lead poisoning in children after at least 22 toddlers...
Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women’s health
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday announced a White House initiative to improve how the federal government approaches and funds research into...
A terminally ill baby at the center of a legal battle in Britain and...
LONDON (AP) — A terminally ill baby at the center of a legal battle involving her parents, British health officials and the Italian government...
UK judge decries legal tactics used by sick child’s parents as he refuses to...
LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday expressed profound concerns about the tactics of the parents of a terminally ill infant as he...
Federal judge puts Idaho’s ‘abortion trafficking’ law on hold during lawsuit
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Idaho's “abortion trafficking” law from being enforced while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality is...
NY is developing education program on harms of medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate parents and doctors about the harmful...
Puerto Rico declares flu epidemic as cases spike. 42 dead and more than 900...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico health officials on Thursday declared an influenza epidemic in the U.S. territory.At least 25,900 cases have...
