Nevada Supreme Court rulings hand setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists
Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Kentucky governor announces lottery to award initial round of medical cannabis business licenses
Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky will use a lottery to award licenses to businesses competing to participate in the state’s startup medical cannabis program (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Legislation allowing doctor-assisted suicide narrowly clears Delaware House, heads to state Senate
A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware has narrowly cleared the Democrat-led House and now goes to the state Senate for consideration (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
As syphilis cases among US newborns soar, doctors group advises more screening during pregnancy
With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group is now recommending that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
A lab chief's sentencing for meningitis deaths is postponed, extending grief of victims' families
A 12-year saga over a fatal national meningitis outbreak still isn't over (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Two shootings, two different responses — Maine restricts guns while Iowa arms teachers
State lawmakers are taking very different approaches to public safety following high-profile shootings (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
UN approves an updated cholera vaccine that could help fight a surge in cases
The World Health Organization has approved a new version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Democrats clear path to bring proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total abortion ban to a vote
Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state’s highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo the long-dorman... (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Lab chief faces sentencing in Michigan 12 years after fatal US meningitis outbreak
The head of a specialty pharmacy will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade ago that were tied to tainted steroids (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Things to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids’ rights
Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
UN report points to yawning gap of inequality in sexual and reproductive health worldwide
The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Earth Day: How a senator's idea more than 50 years ago got people fighting for their planet
Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Idaho's ban on youth gender-affirming care has families desperately scrambling for solutions
Idaho families with transgender children are desperately scrambling for solutions as a state law banning gender-affirming care for minors has taken effect (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
UK lawmakers back landmark bill to gradually phase out smoking for good
A plan by Britain’s government to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Texas fined $100,000 per day for failing to act on foster care abuse allegations
Texas is being fined $100,000 a day by a federal judge for neglecting investigations into abuse and neglect allegations raised by some of the 9,000 children it has in foster care (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
