Health (Page 2)

State lawmakers are taking very different approaches to public safety following high-profile shootings, Read MoreContinue Reading

Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program, Read MoreContinue Reading

A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware has narrowly cleared the Democrat-led House and now goes to the state Senate for consideration, Read MoreContinue Reading

Image source, Getty Images By Mary McCool BBC Scotland news Scotland’s NHS has paused prescribing puberty blockers to children referred by its specialist gender clinic. The Sandyford clinic in Glasgow also said new patients aged 16 or 17 would no longer receive other hormone treatments until they were 18. ItContinue Reading

With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection, Read MoreContinue Reading

A 12-year saga over a fatal national meningitis outbreak still isn’t over, Read MoreContinue Reading

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The Royal Borough of Greenwich says it is aware of concerns surrounding “experimental procedures” on autistic children The Met Police has launched an investigation over concerns about stem-cell injections being offered to children as a cure for autism. The Royal Borough of Greenwich toldContinue Reading

Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dorman…, Read MoreContinue Reading

Doctors tell patients with atrial fibrillation, which causes an irregular and often abnormally rapid heart rate, to beware of an increased risk of stroke. But the threat of heart failure should be even more worrisome., Read MoreContinue Reading

The head of a specialty pharmacy will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade ago that were tied to tainted steroids, Read MoreContinue Reading

Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people, Read MoreContinue Reading

Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day, Read MoreContinue Reading