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The U.S. left the World Health Organization in January. Because of that, experts say, it might not get immediate access to information about the hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch-operated cruise ship.

If people can't get mifepristone by mail, what are their options? Some abortion providers say they would send misoprostol, the other medication in the two-pill regimen, on its own.

The Supreme Court provisionally blocked a lower court decision that would have limited availability nationwide of the abortion pill mifepristone.

Danco Laboratories, one of makers of the mifepristone abortion pill on Saturday asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court ruling that imposed a nationwide requirement for the medication to be dispensed in-person.

An artificial intelligence model from the Mayo Clinic detected early signs of possible pancreatic cancer on scans up to two years before patients were diagnosed.

A federal appeals court on Friday granted the state of Louisiana's request to reinstate a nationwide requirement that abortion pills be dispensed in person.

President Trump on Thursday announced a new nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier. She replaces Trump's prior pick, Dr. Casey Means.

U.S. health officials stopped the publication of a study on whether the Covid-19 vaccine was keeping adults from becoming sick enough to have to go to the hospital

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., clashed with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon, criticizing the secretary over his vaccine policy and abortion medications and debunking an interpretation of a scientific study.

In the last week, the Trump administration has taken steps to fast-track reviews of psychedelics and widen access to some peptide injections — two types of medical interventions that scientists are still evaluating for safety and efficacy.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced criticism of his vaccine policy at two House committee hearings about the proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services.