Soldiers who lost limbs in Gaza fighting are finding healing on Israel's amputee soccer team
Israel's national amputee soccer team is heading to France for the 2024 European Amputee Football Championships in June (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
BNSF Railway says it didn't know about asbestos that's killed hundreds in Montana town
BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
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
