HEALTH

The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and it’s painting a new picture of our origins.

The White House says President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot.

At the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, African leaders are relaying a unanimous message, that their continent of more than 1.3 billion people is done being a “victim” of a post-world war order and must be recognized and partnered with as a global power in itself.

A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems.

Nikki Haley is gaining attention in the GOP race with her calls for “consensus” around abortion, an unusual tone in a campaign where Republican White House hopefuls often prefer to highlight their eagerness to fight President Joe Biden and other Democrats.

U.S. health officials are recommending RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be as a second option to protect newborns.

Years ago, kids with concussions were given strict instructions to avoid any physical activity and even forced them into bed rest.

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life.

Some medical providers are dropping continuing gender-affirming care for minors, even though it remains legal.

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

Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration is beginning the process to remove medical bills from people’s credit scores.

Weight loss patient shares her inspiring story.

A federal appeals court is considering cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia that could have significant implications on whether individual states are required to cover health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance.

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Mississippi relies too much on institutionalizing people with mental health conditions rather than providing care in their communities.

The FDA decided not to approve the first needle-free alternative to an EpiPen and asked for more research to be conducted.

The Senate has confirmed Gen. CQ Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month.

The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

Doctor shares advice for men in their 20s to 70s.

The influential abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America has changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million to help save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth.

Washington’s revolving door kept spinning this week as the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recently departed second-in-command returned for another stint with a high-powered consulting firm where he previously advised OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve a nasal spray to treat severe allergic reactions, calling for more research on what would have been the first alternative to injections using devices such as an EpiPen.

The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch effort to revive criminal charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal.

Britain’s state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England as doctors in the early stages of their careers joined their more senior colleagues in their first-ever joint strike action.

One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia, where all of the state House and Senate seats are up for reelection.

Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members on Valentine’s Day in 2018.

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has delivered an ominous prophecy with grandiose language.

A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments.

About 3,500 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart. Tragically, some will die before a heart becomes available.

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 complaint has been filed alleging that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita violated professional conduct rules in statements about a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim last year.

Planned Parenthood has resumed offering abortions in Wisconsin at clinics in Madison and Milwaukee.

A doctor talks about the effects of the wildly popular new drugs and what you should know before and after starting one.

The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious.

For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic.

Indiana’s attorney general has sued the state’s largest hospital system, claiming it violated patient privacy laws when a doctor publicly shared the story of an Ohio girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion.

Fewer than half of rural hospitals have labor and delivery units and the number keeps dropping.

Millions of Americans use drugs containing phenylephrine when looking to find relief from a stuffy nose, but government experts said the latest research shows it’s not effective.

California lawmakers have finished their work for 2023.

Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities.

Supply problems and insurance complications have made it difficult for many patients to start and stay on new prescription medications used to treat obesity.

U.S.-based pharmaceuticals company Johnson & Johnson is being investigated in South Africa for allegedly charging “excessive” prices for a key tuberculosis drug.

Bangladesh is struggling with a record outbreak of dengue fever, with experts saying a lack of a coordinated response is causing more deaths from the mosquito-transmitted disease.

Oregon has taken an unprecedented step in offering psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, to the public.

Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican presidential primary even as he’s refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion.

An AP-NORC poll shows 76% of Americans favor allowing the federal health care program for the elderly to negotiate prices for certain prescription drugs.

A study has found that the psychedelic drug MDMA, combined with talk therapy, can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Fitness and nutrition expert shares advice

Abortion providers in South Carolina want to lengthen the narrow window when they can legally terminate a pregnancy under a strict new ban.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

Rep. Steve Scalise has returned to the U.S. Capitol for the first time since being diagnosed with a blood cancer known as multiple myeloma.

For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man.

An effort to destigmatize the use of overdose reversal drugs that started as a pilot in two West Virginia counties has expanded to all thirteen states in Appalachia this year.

Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one.

Regional health officials in France say a 32-year-old woman is dead and a dozen people have been hospitalized after an apparent botulism outbreak.

When someone has a stroke, evaluation and treatment is an emergency with every passing moment leading to more brain injury.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon.

Research shows the benefits of positive thinking. But what are the best ways and practices to incorporate more positivity into your life?

Dreams are universal, and the desire to understand them has existed as long as there has been written history.

French regulators have ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards for exposure.

Officials said 86% of opioid overdose deaths in 2022 involved fentanyl, 75% involved other substances and 63% involved stimulants like cocaine or methamphetamine.

Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites.

Lawmakers in California's state Assembly have voted to put a measure before voters next March that would overhaul the way counties are funding mental and behavioral health programs.

The kids are back in school and so are their germs!

Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine.

Women in three states are challenging strict abortion laws that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

New data shows that the number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. continued to fall through the late 2010s even as the nation's overdose crisis deepened.

Several low cost and low tech interventions would increase the chances of mothers and their babies surviving childbirth, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising.

Government advisers say the leading decongestant used by millions of Americans to treat nasal congestion doesn't actually work.

Advocates are asking a Missouri judge to rewrite what they say are misleading descriptions of abortion-rights constitutional amendments.

Authorities said both horses were unvaccinated against their respective diseases.

The American Red Cross said blood donations are urgently needed after the national blood supply fell to critical levels in August.

U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots aimed at revving up protection this fall and winter.

Why a bad routine could be sabotaging your whole day

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is slamming a fellow Republican in the Senate for waging an unprecedented attempt to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.

Recent food recalls have been spurred by foreign objects like rocks, insects and plastic.

Afghanistan is now the world's fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine.

Michigan Medicine’s Community Health Services department is hosting several free flu vaccine and COVID-19 booster clinics.

Two decades ago, the U.S. government created what's described as the largest commitment by any nation in history to combat a single disease, AIDS.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off mail-order access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States.

The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

While there is no cure, a drug recently approved by the FDA is giving some patients hope for a better future.

Doctor shares advice as the school year begins

Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition has defeated a no-confidence motion against the country’s health minister who has been accused of allegedly failing to secure enough essential drugs and laboratory equipment that some say resulted in preventable deaths in hospitals.

The arrival of indoor plumbing in an Alaska village is a godsend for residents who can now turn on a tap for their drinking water or start a machine to do their laundry.

The Florida Supreme Court must decide whether to overrule broad abortion rights protections provided for decades under the state constitution and instead uphold a law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans the procedure in most cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The death of a Massachusetts teenager after his family said he ate an extremely spicy tortilla chip has led to an outpouring of concern about the social media challenge.

A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl.

Aaron Rodgers crossed an item off his sports bucket list and then made a statement with a more visible crossout.

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

We’ve moved away from mandates toward more common sense recommendations, but most health officials expect COVID cases to continue to climb into the fall and winter.

Bruce Springsteen says he needs to postpone concerts this month because of peptic ulcer disease.

A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, violating their constitutional rights to reasonable care while in state custody.

The decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court to invalidate all federal criminal penalties for abortion opened access for millions of people in the sprawling public health system.

Military officials say an Alabama senator's hold on top promotions in a clash over abortion policy raises national security concerns.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared again that he plans to finish his term as leader despite freezing up twice at news conferences over the summer, brushing off questions about his health as he sought to reassure colleagues he’s still up to the job.