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The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, Read MoreContinue Reading

The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, Read MoreContinue Reading

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk in 2000 has been executed, a week after a failed lethal injection in Tennessee, Read MoreContinue Reading

Estimates suggest 170 million children and adolescents worldwide are obese. That includes 70 million children aged 5–9. Obesity prevalence in this age group has quadrupled since 1990, rising from 2% to 8%. In 2024, 35 million children under the age of five were overweight. Obesity increases the risk of manyContinue Reading

The plague, a rare bacterial infection known for its deadly impact in 14th-century Europe, still exists today, Read MoreContinue Reading

Lawyers for a Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk are asking a judge to stay his execution by lethal injection, citing the recent failed attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, Read MoreContinue Reading

This is a MedPage Today story. Cleveland Clinic officials fired back at a conservative organization’s “Woke Alert” attack ad that asked if the large health system was “the wokest hospital in America,” saying the ad’s claims are “riddled with inaccuracies and lies.” The ad, by Consumers’ Research, says clinic officialsContinue Reading

A woman whose baby was too ill to be born is calling for better awareness of choosing a termination for medical reasons. Rosanna Brown, who lives near Waterlooville, Hampshire, was advised to end her pregnancy with son William in 2023 because he had a rare and life-threatening medical condition calledContinue Reading

A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend has become Kenya’s first confirmed case of Ebola and the country’s first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak, Read MoreContinue Reading

Kenyan authorities on Tuesday confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case from Congo, Read MoreContinue Reading