A Baltimore man died after being sedated and restrained by medics. His mom wants...
BALTIMORE (AP) — When Trea Ellinger left a Baltimore drug rehab facility last summer, he assured his anxious mother that everything was fine. He...
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86
NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go...
A ‘new era’ in malaria control has begun with a vaccination campaign for children...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Health workers in Ivory Coast began giving children the latest malaria vaccine on Monday, the beginning of a regional...
What to know about legal battles on details of abortion rights ballot measures across...
Abortion access ballot measures are the center of a new wave of legal and procedural questions across the U.S.Opponents of abortion access have focused...
Sen. Klobuchar says she’s cancer-free but will get radiation as precaution after a spot...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Friday that she remains cancer-free following her bout with breast cancer in 2021, but doctors recently...
The plague rarely affects humans, though the US sees about 7 cases a year....
Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague, the rare bacterial infection infamously known for killing tens of millions in 14th...
The threat of litigation looms as Purdue Pharma returns to settlement talks
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is trying to chart the course for a new mass settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids...
A woman who received a pig kidney transplant plus a heart pump has died
WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant -- along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has...
South Africa drops probe of J&J after it agrees to lower price of TB...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Medical advocacy groups welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication,...
A rare voice box transplant helped a cancer patient speak again, part of a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with...