HEALTH

Scientists have pulled DNA from Ludwig van Beethoven's hair to look for clues about his many health problems and hearing loss.

New research finds that drinking caffeinated coffee did not significantly affect one kind of heart rhythm that results in extra beats.

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction.

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price.

The Biden administration plans to break up the network that runs the nation's organ transplant system.

The governor of Massachusetts is reminding pharmacies that they are required to stock a key abortion pill, despite a nationwide effort by anti-abortion activists to ban the medication.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged that he misled Parliament about rule-breaking government parties during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Cyprus court has rejected a defense argument that a British man’s confession to killing his ailing wife was unlawfully obtained because he was in no frame of mind at the time to speak to police without a lawyer present.

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The United Nations children’s agency says that after last summer’s devastating floods, 10 million people in Pakistan, including children, still live in flood-affected areas without access to safe drinking water.

Bindi Irwin, 24, revealed on Instagram that she’d endured years of severe pain from endometriosis.

Missouri's Republican attorney general says his office will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors.

The state of California and a generic drug manufacturer have entered a 10-year partnership to produce affordable, state-branded insulin that they hope will rival longtime producers and push down prices.

Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

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

A new bill in the California Legislature would give legal protections to doctors who mail abortion pills to patients in other states.

Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time the paralytic disease has been detected in the east African country for more than three decades.

A Massachusetts man accused of attacking a flight attendant and attempting to open the plane's emergency door on a cross-country flight has directed attention to passengers with mental health illnesses.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care to try to reduce suicides in the military.

U.S. health advisersare backing the continued use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, saying it remains an important option for adults at high risk of severe illness.

Leaders of unions representing hundreds of thousands of nurses, ambulance crews and other health care workers in England have reached a deal to resolve months of disruptive strikes for higher wages.

New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women dropped significantly in 2022.

A conservative judge in Texas has raised questions about an effort to overturn the decades-old approval of a leading abortion drug, in a case that could threaten the country’s most common method to end pregnancies.

A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit that poses a threat to the nationwide availability of a leading abortion medication.

North Carolina cheerleader is alive today because of her mother’s quick action.

President Joe Biden says his administration is focused “intensely” on lowering health care costs.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and experts say there is an urgent need to raise awareness.

A Texas judge hearing a case that could throw into jeopardy access to the nation’s most common method of abortion is a former attorney for a Christian legal group who critics say is being sought out by conservative litigants because they believe he’ll be sympathetic to their causes.

Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.