For Black people living with Tourette syndrome, a racial slur being shouted by someone with the disorder at the British Academy Film Awards has left them with complicated feelings.

Should marijuana users be able to own guns.

Social media is filled with influencers rating electrolyte supplements or even telling followers how to make their own.

Eddie Vedder uses two emotional solo concerts and a new Netflix film to push for a cure for epidermolysis bullosa.

European drug regulators are endorsing a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease.

Federal health data shows Black women are more than three times likely than white women to die around the time of childbirth.

Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds.

Cyprus will vaccinate thousands of goats, sheep, hogs and cows to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped seal-watching tours to help limit the spread of the virus.

Wellness influencer and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of what she calls “reactive sick care” during her confirmation hearing to become the next surgeon general.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has started checking literacy skills during pediatric visits for kids as young as 3.

The U.S. will wind down health assistance to Zimbabwe after the African country withdrew from talks on a proposed $367 million bilateral funding deal.

More than 60 million women in the U.S. live with cardiovascular disease.

Zimbabwe is one of the world's first countries to roll out lenacapavir, a long-acting HIV prevention drug that is administered only twice a year.

Thousands of nurses at a major New York hospital system have approved a new contract, voting to end a strike after more than a month.

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes.

The Trump administration says it supports a strict Biden-era rule that forces cities to replace most lead water pipes within 10 years.

A ransomware attack has forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all clinics and cancel elective procedures for a second day.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants.

The fatal nervous system disease known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, killed actor Eric Dane less than a year after he announced his diagnosis.

New York City’s largest nursing strike in decades may be on the verge of ending.

A Portland, Oregon, company is recalling nearly 3.4 million pounds of frozen chicken fried rice products sold at Trader Joe's stores and in Canada.

The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

Women in Wisconsin will soon be eligible to receive expanded Medicaid coverage for up to a year after giving birth following passage of a measure by the Wisconsin Assembly.

Early prenatal care improves the chances of having a healthy pregnancy and baby.

A new study shows hot, dry and windy weather that fuels extreme wildfires has nearly tripled worldwide in 45 years.

The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies for new drug approvals.

Vaccine maker Moderna says the Food and Drug Administration will decide whether to approve its new flu shot for older adults after all.

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

Bayer has agreed to a proposed $7.25 billion deal to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits that blame Roundup for causing cancer.