AP Health

The FDA is screening US cinnamon imports after more kids are sickened by lead-tainted...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is screening imports of cinnamon from multiple countries for toxic lead contamination after growing reports of children who...

The flu is soaring in seven US states and rising in others, health officials...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season is underway, with at least seven states reporting high levels of illnesses and cases rising in...

Barefoot workers and cracked floors were found at a factory that made recalled eyedrops,...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An Indian company that recently recalled eyedrops sold in the U.S. had a host of sanitation and manufacturing problems, including barefoot...

Hearing will take place in religious leaders’ lawsuit challenging Missouri abortion ban

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge on Thursday will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban on the grounds that...

Progress in childhood cancer has stalled for Blacks and Hispanics, report says

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Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic...

Oklahoma Supreme Court keeps anti-abortion laws on hold while challenge is pending

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court reiterated its position on Tuesday in a 5-4 opinion that the state constitution guarantees a woman's...

UK experts recommend chickenpox shot for kids for the first time, decades after other...

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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...

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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

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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

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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...