In this June 15, 2018 photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. As Congress and the Trump administration aim to curb spiraling drug costs, outside groups like the Alliance for Patient Access are raising their voices as they seek to sway the outcome. But not all of these organiz…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As ominous music plays in the background, the narrator of a radio ad echoes objections from drugmakers by warning that a Trump administration proposal to apply international pricing to certain Medicare drugs would be a nightmare for seniors.
This combination of images provided by Edwards Lifesciences in March 2019 shows the Sapien 3 heart valve expanded, left, and crimped for insertion. Surgery for certain bad heart valves may soon become a thing of the past. New studies published by the New England Journal of Medicine on Saturd…
Surgery for certain bad heart valves may soon become a thing of the past. New studies suggest it's OK and often better to have a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A huge study suggests the Apple Watch can detect a worrisome irregular heartbeat at least sometimes — but experts say more work is needed to tell if using wearable technology to screen for heart problems really helps.
A police officer and three firefighters were among seven people indicted this week in an alleged $50 million prescription drug scheme involving public employees, the latest charges in an investigation that has already produced nearly two dozen guilty pleas.
The latest U.S. research on eggs won't go over easy for those can't eat breakfast without them.
FILE - In this May 14, 2008 file photo, cartons of eggs are displayed for sale in the Union Square green market in New York. The latest U.S. research on eggs won’t go over easy for those can’t eat breakfast without them. Study participants who ate about 1 ½ eggs daily had a slightly higher r…
The latest U.S. research on eggs won't go over easy for those can't eat breakfast without them.
GENEVA (AP) — Attacks on Ebola treatment centers in eastern Congo threaten to reverse the gains being made against the current outbreak of the deadly virus, the director-general of the World Health Organization said Thursday as a fourth attack on a health center was reported.
GENEVA (AP) — The director-general of the World Health Organization says recent attacks on Ebola treatment centers in Congo threaten to reverse the gains that have been made in fighting the epidemic.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's Republican-led legislature has passed a bill that would ban abortion for women seeking to end their pregnancies because of the gender, race or disability of the fetus.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The conservatives who dominate the Kansas Legislature voted Wednesday to tell New York's leaders just how much they hate the Empire State's new law expanding abortion rights, ignoring Democrats who called the endeavor a toothless waste of time and money.
The company that has made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin says it is considering bankruptcy as one of several possible legal options.
FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2018 file photo, Qin Jinzhou deposits an embryo into a microplate after injecting it with injecting Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA in a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. On March 13, 2019, an international group of scientists and ethicists ar…
NEW YORK (AP) — An international group of scientists and ethicists on Wednesday called for a temporary global ban on making babies with edited genes.
This photo provided by the FDA shows Claire's Eyeshadows. Claire’s is recalling Claire's Eyeshadows and two other makeup products after U.S. regulators warned people not to use them because of possible asbestos. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration said product samples tested positive…
NEW YORK (AP) — The retailer Claire's is recalling three makeup products after U.S. regulators warned they might contain asbestos.
FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo, a high school student uses a vaping device near a school campus in Cambridge, Mass. U.S. health regulators are moving ahead with a plan to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers by restricting sales of most flavored products in convenience …
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are moving ahead with a plan designed to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers by restricting sales of most flavored products in convenience stores and online.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge, citing an "unprecedented measles outbreak" in suburban Rockland County, New York, has denied a request to let 44 unvaccinated children return to school.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's agriculture minister says that a European Commission's veterinary inspection has revealed irregularities in documents at slaughterhouses, but found no problems with the quality of the meat.
In this Feb. 22, 2019, photo, State Democratic Rep. Stephanie Pitcher speaks on the house floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah is one of at least four states considering bans this year on the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. The Utah measure has passed t…
In this Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Michelle Aldana is shown at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. Utah is one of at least four states considering bans this year on the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. The Utah measure has passed the state House and is being considered by …
In this Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Michelle Aldana is shown at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. Utah is one of at least four states considering bans this year on the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. The Utah measure has passed the state House and is being considered by …
In this Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Michelle Aldana is shown at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. Utah is one of at least four states considering bans this year on the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. The Utah measure has passed the state House and is being considered by …
In this Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Michelle Aldana is shown at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. Utah is one of at least four states considering bans this year on the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. Then serving time at the Utah state prison on a drug charge, Aldana say…
In this Feb. 22, 2019, photo, State Democratic Rep. Stephanie Pitcher speaks on the house floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah is one of at least four states considering bans this year on the shackling of incarcerated women during childbirth. The Utah measure has passed t…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Michelle Aldana gave birth to her first child chained to a hospital bed.
FILE - In this April 15, 2017, file photo, vehicles are parked outside the entrance to the GEO Group's immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colo. U.S. immigration authorities say more than 2,200 people exposed to a mumps outbreak in at least two detention facilities have been quarantined.…
PHOENIX (AP) — Over 2,200 people exposed to the mumps virus in at least two immigration detention facilities have been quarantined, authorities said Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That's according to the maker of the oil, which says it's the first U.S. commercial use of a gene-edited food product.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the National Cancer Institute will temporarily take charge of the Food and Drug Administration next month after the departure of its current chief.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump pledged not to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
The Capitol is seen amid leafless branches in Washington, Tuesday morning March 12, 2019. President Donald Trump's new budget proposal doubles down on his border wall and military spending as he faces a divided Congress and rifts within his own party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 photo Worcester Police officer Angel Rivera, right, returns a license to an unidentified man as Rivera asks if he has been tested for Hepatitis A at the entrance to a tent where the man spent the night in a wooded area, in Worcester, Mass. Dan Cahill, City of W…
In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 photo Worcester police officer Angel Rivera, right, asks Brian Pickering, left, if he has been tested for for Hepatitis A at the entrance to a tent where Pickering spent the night in a wooded area, in Worcester, Mass. The city was hit hard when recent hepatitis…
In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 photo a decorative plaque featuring lighthouses is attached to a tree near a makeshift shelter in a wooded area, in Worcester, Mass. This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including “the Heart of the Commonwealth…
In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 photo Worcester police officer Angel Rivera, right, asks a woman, who identified herself only as Ashley, if she has been tested for Hepatitis A at the entrance to a tent where she spent the night in a public recreation area, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
FOR RELEASE 8 A.M. EDT; For several years scattered outbreaks of hepatitis A have targeted the homeless. ;
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including "the Heart of the Commonwealth" and "Wormtown." Among them was this less-known medical moniker: "Hepatitisville."
MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — The nation's largest health insurer is expanding a program that passes rebates from drugmakers directly to the people that use their medications.
WASHINGTON (AP) — African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution than they are responsible for making, a new study said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Democratic presidential candidates and lawmakers are rallying behind "Medicare for All" proposals to expand government-provided health care. Republicans preparing for next year's congressional races also like the idea, but for different reasons.
House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth, D-Ky., walks through the Capitol in Washington, Monday morning March 11, 2019, as President Donald Trump's 2020 budget is delivered to his committee. Trump's new budget calls for billions more for his border wall, with steep cuts in domestic program…
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's interim health minister says 12 newborn babies have died while receiving care at a public maternity hospital.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina is being sued again over its treatment of transgender people.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Assailants have again attacked an Ebola treatment center in the heart of eastern Congo's deadly outbreak, with the mayor reporting one police officer killed.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ernest Quintana's family knew he was dying of chronic lung disease when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, unable to breathe.
FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015 file photo shows the Food & Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. On Friday, March 8, 2019, the FDA approved Roche’s Tecentriq, the first cancer immunotherapy for treating an aggressive type of breast cancer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
