Four more cases have been identified in a viral pneumonia outbreak in a central Chinese city that has killed two and prompted the United States and others to take precautionary measures.

An HIV-awareness campaign featuring condom wrappers with cheeky slogans has  met a quick end in Utah.

With just weeks to go until the first contests of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, several groups are organizing grassroots efforts aimed at convincing voters they should back candidates who fully support the “Medicare for All” legislation from which the phrase is derived.

An Oregon teenager who was taken out of state by her mother to avoid surgery for a rare type of liver cancer has had the operation while in the custody of the state welfare officials.

Chinese health authorities say a second person has died from a new form of coronavirus in central China.

German researchers said Thursday they have developed the first diagnostic test for a new virus that has emerged in central China.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley has revealed in a new video that she has gone bald due to alopecia.

ResMed, a San Diego-based company that sells sleep apnea machines, will pay $37.5 million to settle allegations that it provided kickbacks to obtain customer referrals.

Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted.

The new year often starts harshly for people with high-deductible health insurance, but there are places to find help.

Japan's government says a man treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

This week marks a year since an Ohio hospital system announced a doctor ordered excessive painkillers for dozens of patients who then died.

Chinese officials say they have not ruled the potential for limited human-to-human transmission of a new virus in the central city of Wuhan.

The U.N. health agency says Thai officials have reported that a traveler from the Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalized in Thailand with a recently identified new type of coronavirus.

A former executive for a drug company has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says he is suing three distributors of opioids.

Hemp was ushered in as a federally legal agricultural crop under the groundbreaking 2018 Farm Bill.

Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus.

Attorneys representing guardians of children born addicted to opioids are asking a federal judge in Cleveland to include them as a group in a class action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry.

California could become the first state to ban medically unnecessary surgeries on babies born with ambiguous or conflicting genitalia.

Since late last year, people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan have been infected with a viral pneumonia whose cause was unknown.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV say a preliminary investigation by experts has identified a previously unknown viral pneumonia as a new type of coronavirus.

A Maine swimming coach has endured a quadruple bypass after a heart attack, removal of cancerous tumors from his colon and wrists, and the amputation of part of his leg.

Hemp was ushered in as a federally legal agricultural crop under the groundbreaking 2018 Farm Bill.

Croatian media say a fire engulfed part of a nursing home in northern Croatia early Saturday, killing at least six people.