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For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations ...

Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week ...

A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New York City ...

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine is expected to ask a judge to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to keep federal money from going to abortion providers ...

The governor of New Mexico has declared a state of emergency in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native American pueblo communities ...

Georgia Bureau of Investigation: CDC 'shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound'

A review by The Associated Press shows that several of President Donald Trump's nominees to the federal courts have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions ...

Ari Beser's grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 ...

Three new studies highlight the severe health impacts of recent wildfires on Maui and in Los Angeles ...

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan ...