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State appeals court reinstates California's right-to-die law

A state appeals court has reinstated — at least for now — California's law allowing terminally ill people to end their lives.

California moves to clear coffee of cancer-risk stigma

California officials, having concluded coffee drinking is not a risky pastime, are proposing a regulation that will ...

California moves to declare coffee safe from cancer risk

California officials bucked a recent court ruling Friday and offered reassurance to concerned coffee drinkers that their fix ...

NCAA settles CTE lawsuit filed by widow of Texas player

The NCAA settled a lawsuit Friday with the family of a former University of Texas football player that accused the ...

Ex-hospice supervisor pleads guilty in $60M fraud scheme

A former hospice nursing supervisor in North Texas has pleaded guilty to her role in a $60 million health care fraud scheme ...

Texas heart transplant program resumed after suspension

A Houston hospital announced Friday that it has reactivated its renowned heart transplant program after a two-week suspension ...

Portugal approves use of marijuana-based medicines

Portugal's parliament has given final legislative approval for the use of marijuana-based medicines, which are already ...

NOT REAL NEWS: Doctors are not worried about aluminum foil

Doctors are not warning about the deadly consequences of using aluminum foil, contrary to a story being shared on social ...

Mona Hanna Attisha

Doctor pens book on her role in revealing Flint water crisis

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha had hard evidence that thousands of people in Flint had been exposed to toxic lead in their drinking ...

Man scheduled for transplant granted deportation reprieve

Federal immigration officials granted a six-month reprieve on Thursday to a Connecticut immigrant facing deportation, a move ...

Argentine Congress OKs elective abortion; now goes to Senate

The lower house of Argentina's congress on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize elective abortion in the first 14 ...

Theresa May

UK lifts immigration cap for medical workers amid shortages

Britain said Thursday it will lift a cap on the number of visas granted to foreign doctors and nurses to help ease staffing ...

'They're at risk:' Congo's taxi drivers fear Ebola's spread

Hundreds of people are being vaccinated in Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak, especially health workers on the front lines of the ...

Senate panel OKs farm bill, but House wants work provisions

A Senate panel approved a modest, bipartisan rewrite of federal farm and nutrition programs on Wednesday, sidestepping a ...

Puerto Rico issues new data on Hurricane Maria deaths

Eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Efrain Perez felt a pain in his chest. Doctors near his small town ...

Rare type of tick inexplicably turns up in Arkansas

A hardy, invasive species of tick that survived a New Jersey winter and subsequently traversed the mid-Atlantic has ...

Correction: Congo-Ebola story

In a story June 8 about progress being made in calming Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak, The Associated Press misidentified the ...

Cardinals' Poncedeleon reaches majors after head injury

A little more than a year after a life-threatening brain injury, Daniel Poncedeleon is ready to make his major league debut.

Salmonella linked to pre-cut melon sickens 60 in Midwest

Health officials say a salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut melon has sickened 60 people in five Midwestern states.

APNewsBreak: Official blasts critic of nuclear plant cleanup

A U.S. official harshly criticized a Colorado health officer who questioned the safety of a former nuclear weapons plant and ...

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