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Last year, when Lauren Haydel began her first sober holiday season, she wondered how difficult it would be to avoid alcohol at family parties and celebrations with friends. She owns a boutique, Fleurty Girl, in New Orleans' French Quarter, a ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman who wound up in the emergency room with severe bleeding, setting up a first-of-its-kind challenge to a blue-state abortion shield law.

The day after a masked gunman killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City, police in San Francisco gave the FBI a potentially valuable tip about the identity of the suspect: He looked like a man who had been reported missing to them the ...

Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss said Friday he is being treated for cancer found in his bile duct between his pancreas and liver.

Dry January, the popular challenge of giving up alcohol for the first month of the year, has become a health trend embraced by millions, but does it really work, or is it just another fleeting fad that fades with February?

After Luigi Mangione made the difficult decision to undergo spinal surgery last year for chronic back pain, he became a proponent of the procedure that changed his life for the better.

Kentucky plans to provide state employees with paid time off so they can bond with a new child or deal with a serious medical situation, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday.

Luigi Mangione, the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was never a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence, a senior police official said Thursday.

In an interview with Time magazine Wednesday, pop music legend Elton John said the legalization of marijuana was "one of the greatest mistakes of all time."

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had a second procedure on Thursday morning to stop a brain bleed, his doctors said.