The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is ordering Peru to pay compensation for a woman’s death tied to a forced sterilization program.

For more than two decades, many American women entering menopause were told that hormone replacement therapy was dangerous -- a belief rooted in early interpretations of the Women’s Health Initiative study and reinforced by prominent FDA boxed warnings.

Losing an hour of sleep as daylight saving time kicks in can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day — it also could harm your health.

A Connecticut city has joined hundreds of others around the country that have installed new firehouse alarm systems that aim to reduce firefighters' stress when calls come in.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

Contract talks between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Michigan Medicine are headed toward a June 30 deadline that could affect patients beginning July 1 if the parties do not reach an agreement.

The White House says a red spot on President Donald Trump’s neck comes from a prescribed skin cream.

As people awoke to news over the weekend of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran, it resulted in many feeling anxious and stressed.

Tech companies are pushing new health chatbots, but experts say you still need to talk to your doctor.

Health care doesn’t need more managers, it needs leaders -- professionals who can think clearly under pressure, act decisively in complex situations and never lose sight of the core mission: deliver exceptional care and support to patients.

A colorectal cancer diagnosis in people under the age of 50 can come as a shock. Even more surprising is that rates of colorectal cancer are rising among younger individuals.

New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money.

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

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

The United States signs a $1.2 billion health partnership with Congo that ties new funding to Congo spending more at home.

A Michigan mother is making and collecting soft, yarn toys that are being donated to the neonatal intensive care unit at a Detroit hospital.

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead.

Federal health officials say an infant botulism outbreak linked to recalled ByHeart baby formula is over.

The European Union has agreed to expand funding for citizens needing to leave their home countries to access safe abortions elsewhere in the 27-nation bloc.

The island of Jersey has voted to legalize assisted dying for some terminally ill adults, as a similar bill stalls in the U.K. Parliament.

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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.

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More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine recommendations for children.

The California program that identifies and treats cases of dangerous infant botulism also comforts families by sending silly cards on their babies' first birthdays.