Health

A chance meeting at a gas station in Georgia has grown friendships, renewed relationships, and given a baby a permanent home.

U.S. fisherman will no longer be getting a raw deal when trying to compete against cheap and questionable seafood from international suppliers under a new initiative announced by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The government of Switzerland confirmed on Friday that a woman identified as the first patient in Nigeria diagnosed with Ebola Bundibugyo in the context of an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is an Ugandan-born Swiss national who had not recently visited the DRC.

A mother and her nine-year-old son recently made an incredible discovery while walking along Lake Superior’s shoreline.

The U.S. general fertility rate hit a new “record low” in 2025, according to final birth data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday.

Knoxville Fire Department Capt. Tim Woods confirmed the first two infants surrendered at the Department’s Station 17 baby box have since been adopted; the third baby was surrendered on Oct. 20.

The Justice Department charged 15 defendants, among them six medical professionals, in Southern California healthcare fraud schemes that collectively billed roughly $2 billion, including the largest substance-abuse treatment fraud case the department has ever prosecuted.

A veteran and his family in Coopersville, Michigan, no longer have to worry about the roof over their heads, thanks to a special gift.

A bus driver helped fend off a Rottweiler that was attacking a teenage girl early Wednesday in Griffin, Georgia, as she and her brother waited for their school bus.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to let the Trump administration gradually end transgender-related medical services for prison inmates who want to be treated as members of the opposite sex.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday promised swift settlement for remaining American veterans, their families, and civilian employees who were exposed to toxic drinking water at Marine Corps Camp Lejeune in North Carolina between 1953 and 1987.

Voters in Virginia will be voting on whether to enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitution, and a ballot measure in Idaho would create a statutory right to abortion in the state. In Missouri, voters have the chance to undo a ballot measure from 2024 that added a right to abortion to the state constitution.

One of the grandchildren of Robert F. Kennedy, Kyle Kennedy, died at the age of 42, according to multiple reports.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said fraudsters in Minnesota bribed mothers roughly $1,500 per child to falsely claim their children were autistic, saddling the children with diagnoses they did not have.

Actress Christina Applegate revealed Tuesday she was previously misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), the neurological and autoimmune disorder.

Donna Arthur, the mother of Amy Acton, a Democrat running to become Ohio’s next governor, appears in a campaign ad urging voters not to vote for her own daughter.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump announced Monday actions the president is taking to improve “women’s health through all phases of life.”

A national refuse company has lost nearly a billion dollars in income and spent a billion more trying to satisfy a dozen “green” agencies in California with conflicting demands and regulations that have kept Los Angeles’s second largest landfill shut down for nearly two years.

A federal health official is being sent to Pennsylvania to investigate and help curb the outbreak of measles, an illness that is highly contagious.

Pope Leo XIV thanked thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for their prayers while he was hospitalized for an operation to remove a malignant tumor, and said he plans to gradually return to his usual duties.

President Donald Trump’s Office of National Drug Control Policy has overseen an enormous decrease in drug overdose deaths since such deaths peaked under former President Joe Biden.

Commuters in McHenry County, Illinois, experienced a traffic headache early Friday when a semi truck carrying hydrochloric acid flipped onto its side.

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) this week claimed that the Trump administration is actively trying to attack women’s ability to get an education while stumping for Michigan Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (D).

A now former ICU nurse in Florida has been accused of stealing fentanyl from a patient’s IV infusion in June and charged with three felonies in the case.

A neurologist has been accused of sexually abusing two patients at his practice in New York City.

Actor Drake Bell, most famous for his role on the Nickelodeon show “Drake & Josh,” publicly denounced SAG-AFTRA after the major Hollywood union said he failed to qualify for health insurance coverage.

The health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said on Tuesday that total confirmed cases in the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak have reached 9,066, with 4,381 fatalities.

The surgery is over and now the recovery begins. That is the plan for Pope Leo XIV who had a “good night” in hospital and has eaten breakfast as he recovers from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said Thursday.

Prescription drug prices just recorded their largest annual decline in American history, according to the consumer price index report released by the Department of Labor on Wednesday.

Socialist congressional candidate Melat Kiros claimed she comes from a long generation of “proud black socialists,” defending the political ideology and vowing that she will fight for “systemic” change.

A former child actor who jumped into an enclosure at a British zoo and was mauled to death by a Siberian tiger had suffered for years from mental illness that required “strong” medication.

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services made an additional $2.4 million in Medicaid overpayments to the White Earth Nation, of which Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is a member, under the Walz-Flanagan administration in 2019, as a state audit found that millions in additional payments to White Earth and Leech Lake that year were made after DHS determined the payment practice did not comply with state and federal legal requirements.