Health News

September 23, 2018

Judge: California child can take cannabis drug to school

A California kindergartner can keep bringing a cannabis-based drug used for emergency treatment of a rare form of epilepsy ...

September 22, 2018

Italy extends time for vaccine proof for young school kids

Italian parents have more time before having to produce proof to schools that their children have received 10 mandatory ...

September 22, 2018

Lawsuit alleges Party City denied job to woman with autism

A New Hampshire woman who was hoping to land a sales job at Party City was turned down after a manager realized she has ...

September 22, 2018

Congo reports Ebola death close to busy Ugandan border

A Congolese woman who refused an Ebola vaccination and then disappeared has died of the virus near the heavily traveled ...

September 22, 2018

Sheriff: Motive unclear for Maryland shooter who killed 3

Law enforcement officials said Friday they might never know the motive for a female shooter's violent rampage that killed ...

September 22, 2018

Cubs' Russell placed on leave after domestic violence claims

Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell was placed on administrative leave Friday following fresh allegations of domestic ...

September 22, 2018

Investigation finds Maryland culpable in death of player

An independent investigation into the death of University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair has determined that ...

September 22, 2018

The Latest: Faster response 'might have changed things'

The Latest on investigation of University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair (all times local): 6:35 p.m. One of the ...

September 22, 2018

Wisconsin workplace shooting suspect had revoked gun permit

The gunman in a Wisconsin workplace shooting was taken to a mental health hospital and barred from buying firearms 14 years ...

September 21, 2018

Sheriff: Shooter had mental illness but legally owned gun

The woman who killed three people and wounded others before shooting herself to death at a Maryland drugstore warehouse had ...

September 21, 2018

Tutu urges regulated euthanasia after campaigner's arrest

Terminally ill people should have the right to a "dignified assisted death," former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu ...

September 20, 2018

Colorado meatpacker recalls ground beef after E. coli death

A Colorado meatpacker is recalling more than 132,000 pounds (60,000 kilograms) of ground beef after a suspected E.

September 20, 2018

Women die in flooded van driven by South Carolina deputies

As South Carolina rivers overflowed from Florence's torrential rain, deputies taking two women to a mental health facility ...

September 20, 2018

Officials say 15-year-old boy killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

Gaza's Health Ministry says a 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli army fire during a protest near the perimeter ...

September 19, 2018

Judge throws out lawsuit by ex-wrestlers over concussions

A federal judge in Connecticut has dismissed a lawsuit by 60 former professional wrestlers, many of them stars in the 1980s ...

September 19, 2018

Administration sends states $1B in grants to battle opioids

The Trump administration is awarding more than $1 billion in grants to help states confront the opioid epidemic, with most ...

September 19, 2018

Monsanto asks judge to throw out $289M award in cancer suit

Agribusiness company Monsanto has asked a San Francisco judge to throw out a jury's $289 million award to a former school ...

September 19, 2018

A year after Maria, Puerto Rican kidney patients fear death

As weeks turned into months, the seats of the small plane began to empty out. In the beginning, 15 passengers flew from ...

September 19, 2018

California: Drugmaker paid doctors to overprescribe Humira

Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie illegally plied doctors with cash, gifts and services to prescribe one of the world's ...