WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Republican and Democratic senators are proposing legislation to address the problem of surprise medical bills. Those are the shockingly high charges insured patients can get hit with when a hospital or doctor is not in their insurers' network.
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization is publishing its first-ever global strategy to tackle the problem of snake bites, aiming to halve the number of people killed and disabled by snakes by 2030.
FILE - In this June 23, 2018 file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent walks between vehicles outside the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. U.S. border agents have temporarily closed their primary facility for processing migrants in South Texas one day after authorities say a 16-year…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — More than 30 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center on the Mexican border that was temporarily closed to stop the outbreak, authorities said Wednesday.
State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, left, receives congratulations from Southern California Democratic state Sen. Bob Archuleta, right, after his measure to toughen the rules for vaccination exemptions was approve by the Senate, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, SB27…
An opponent of a measure to toughen the rules for vaccination exemptions gives a thumbs down as the bill's author, state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, makes his closing statements Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. The Senate approved the bill, SB276, that gives state public he…
State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, left, calls on lawmakers to approve his measure to toughen the rules for vaccination exemptions Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. The Senate approved the bill, SB276, that gives state public health officials instead of local doctors the powe…
State Sen. John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa, calls on lawmakers to reject a measure to toughen the rules for vaccination exemptions Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. The Senate approved the bill, SB276, by state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, that gives state public health officials…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with tougher rules that limit parents from choosing whether to vaccinate their schoolchildren as a handful of opponents shouted "We will not comply" inside the Senate.
Two U.S. lawmakers are calling on the World Health Organization to withdraw pain care guidelines that include what they say are false claims about the safety of prescription opioids.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Democratic women running for president unveiled plans Wednesday to improve maternal health care, with Sen. Kamala Harris reintroducing a bill aimed at addressing racial disparities in childbirth care and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand promising to make adoptions and high-tech …
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., listens to a question during a campaign stop at a coffee shop in Derry, N.H., Friday, May 10, 2019.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand (KEER'-sten JIHL'-uh-brand) has released a Family Bill of Rights that she vows to institute during her first 100 days in office, if elected.
FILE - In this May 10, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., talks with guests during a campaign stop at a coffee shop in Derry, N.H. Gillibrand has released a “Family Bill of Rights” that she vows to institute during her first 100 days in the W…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., smiles during a campaign stop at a coffee shop in Derry, N.H., Friday, May 10, 2019.
FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Eli Lilly and Co. corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. A half-price version of Eli Lilly’s popular Humalog insulin is now available, following the company's promise in March to offer diabetics a more affordable option amid fierce criticism …
A half-price version of Eli Lilly's popular Humalog insulin is now available, following the company's promise in March to offer diabetics a more affordable option amid fierce criticism of soaring insulin prices.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., responds to a question during a Hispanics in Politics event at the Dona Maria Tamales restaurant in Las Vegas, Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a Hispanics in Politics event at the Dona Maria Tamales restaurant in Las Vegas, Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a Hispanics in Politics event at the Dona Maria Tamales restaurant in Las Vegas, Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris responds to a question during a One APIA (Asian Pacific Islander American) Nevada event at the Orchid Vietnamese restaurant in Las Vegas, Thursday, May 16, 2019.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is offering a new bill to address racial disparities in maternal health care, one of several plans by 2020 Democratic presidential candidates on the issue.
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019, file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Harris is offering a new bill to address racial disparities in maternal health care, one of several plans by 2020 presidential candidates on the issue. The California Democr…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., reacts to greeting supporters as she takes to stage during her first campaign organizing event at Los Angeles Southwest College in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 19, 2019.
People gather at the state Capitol to rally in support of abortion rights, Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are bucking a national trend of restrictive abortion laws by voting to repeal requirements that physicians document a pregnant woman's marital status and tell her about the "emotional implications" of an abortion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researc…
FILE - This Feb. 28, 2019 file photo shows a storage tank near a well pad located in a field near a housing development in Broomfield, Colo. The newly reorganized Colorado Oil and Gas Commission planned to meet Tuesday, May 21, 2019, and will later begin rewriting state rules to emphasize pu…
DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials said Tuesday that they had no plans to stop energy companies from drilling for oil and gas while regulators overhaul state rules to make health, safety and the environment their top priority.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan says he's filed suit against eight members of the family that owns the drug company that manufactures OxyContin, one of the drugs believed to be partly responsible for the opioid crisis.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who weighs more than 900 pounds (410 kilograms) pleaded guilty in a federal cocaine conspiracy case Tuesday during a hearing that was held in a courthouse loading dock as the defendant lay on a stretcher inside an ambulance.
File - In this May 24, 2013, file photo, is the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Ore. Oregon will use ground-penetrating radar to search for bodies buried on the campus of the former psychiatric hospital that inspired the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The Statesman Journal reported …
FILE - This April 19, 2012, file photo, shows copper canisters holding ashes of some of the thousands patients who died long ago at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Ore. Oregon will use ground-penetrating radar to search for bodies buried on the campus of the former psychiatric hospital t…
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will use ground-penetrating radar to search for bodies buried on the campus of a now-defunct psychiatric hospital where the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed before a developer builds housing on the land.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two dozen states and municipalities are suing the federal government to stop a new rule letting health care clinicians object to providing abortions and other services that conflict with their moral or religious beliefs.
Escorts, using umbrellas, shield clients from the gestures and voices of anti-abortion activists standing on the sidewalk in front of the Alabama Women's Wellness Center Friday, May 17, 2019 in Huntsville, Ala. The Alabama legislation signed into law Wednesday would make performing or attemp…
Anti-abortion messages written in chalk are drawn along the sidewalk leading to the Jackson Women's Health Organization, Friday, May 17, 2019, in Jackson, Miss. The facility is the state's only abortion clinic.
Dr. Yashica Robinson, is greeted with a hug from Josie Poland, a clinic escort, while arriving for work at the Alabama Women's Wellness Center Friday, May 17, 2019 in Huntsville, Ala. The Alabama legislation signed into law Wednesday would make performing or attempting to perform an abortion…
Major Fecteau, a Huntsville anti-abortion protester, holds a rosary and prays while he holds a sign on the sidewalk in front of the Alabama Women's Wellness Center Friday, May 17, 2019 in Huntsville, Ala. The Alabama legislation signed into law Wednesday would make performing or attempting t…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Abortion providers say the flurry of recent state laws restricting abortion has emboldened protesters and left patients confused.
FILE - In this July 23, 2015 file photo, Viviane and Pierre Lambert, left, parents of Vincent Lambert, arrive at the Sebastopol hospital, in Reims, eastern France, where Vincent, who is currently on artificial life support, is hospitalized. A last-ditch appeal to the United Nations forced Fr…
PARIS (AP) — A last-ditch appeal to the United Nations forced French doctors to resume life support Tuesday for a man who has been in a vegetative state for years and whose case has drawn attention across Europe.
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 file photo, Oumou Balde, 4, left, plays with her teacher Jacqualine Sanchez, right, and some pretend food in a pre-kindergarten class at the Sheltering Arms Learning Center in New York in a program that was produced in conjunction with the Sesame Street …
CHICAGO (AP) — Cholesterol levels in children and teens improved in the latest analysis of U.S. health surveys, yet only half of them had readings considered ideal.
This Friday, May 17, 2019 photo shows an examination/procedure room at the Jackson Women's Health Organization in Jackson, Miss. The facility is the state's only abortion clinic.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge who struck down Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban last year is hearing arguments about a new law that puts the ban even earlier.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lilian Serrano's mother-in-law had lots of stomach problems, but she always blamed food.
PHOENIX (AP) — A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility has appealed a court order requiring a test to determine if he has HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Republican is introducing legislation to raise the minimum smoking age from 18 to 21.
Shannon Brewer, the clinic director at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, expresses her concerns about the growing number of abortion restrictive bills being passed by state legislatures, Friday, May 17, 2019, in Jackson, Miss.
