HEALTH

A federal judge in New York City has ordered an ex-gynecologist to jail as he awaits sentencing, following his conviction for sexually abusing hundreds of patients over decades.

The Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc. for sharing users’ personal health data with Facebook, Google and other third parties without their consent.

House Republicans have begun their promised aggressive oversight of the Biden administration.

Emboldened anti-abortion activists are looking to the next presidential election as an opportunity to solidify their influence over the Republican Party.

Hong Kong has banned CBD as a “dangerous drug” and imposed harsh penalties for its possession, forcing fledging businesses to shut down or revamp.

Gov. Tim Walz has enshrined the right to abortion and other reproductive health care into Minnesota statutes.

The top Air Force general in charge of the nation’s air- and ground-launched nuclear missiles has requested an official investigation into the number of airmen who are reporting blood cancer diagnoses after serving at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.

The U.S. plans to make it easier for gay and bisexual men to give blood.

The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever.

A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are awaiting execution.

Hong Kong will ban CBD starting Wednesday, labeling it a “dangerous drug.”.

A newly released report from the Mississippi State Department of Health finds that an increasing number of mothers in the state have died in recent years due to pregnancy complications.

Malawi’s health minister says a cholera outbreak has claimed more than 1,000 lives.

The Carter Center said Tuesday that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year.

A gynecologist who molested some of his patients during a decadeslong career has been convicted of federal charges that he enticed women to cross state lines so he could abuse them.

A report by the United Nations shows growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty.

Oregon is launching a hotline offering free legal advice on abortion.

U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot.

Conservative political commentator Lynette Hardaway died earlier this month of a heart condition, according to a death certificate obtained by The Associated Press.

A Native American tribe in South Dakota says several of its members died when December storms buried their reservation in snow and left them stranded.

Vice President Kamala Harris is rallying supporters against efforts in Washington and in Republican-led states to restrict abortion on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe vs.

Brazil’s government has declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon who are suffering from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria as a consequence of illegal mining.

A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights has filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don’t share them.

The Navajo Nation has rescinded a mask mandate that's been in effect since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters are celebrating the dismantling of that constitutional right to abortion and heralding the political struggle set loose by the Supreme Court's decision.

Federal prosecutors say a subsidiary of health care company Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle allegations that it violated federal and state law by providing free products to a surgeon.

Shades of Blue was created by a woman who experienced a traumatic birth.

Inspections of ships carrying Ukrainian grain and other food exports have slowed to half their peak rate under a U.N.-brokered wartime agreement.

As New York opens more legal outlets for recreational marijuana, some public health advocates want more scrutiny on how marijuana products are being marketed to teens and young adults.

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization has had a rocky start, but the Oregon secretary of state says as part of an audit of the program that it’s too early to call it a failure.