Medical professionals are now banned from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, with limited exceptions.

Restrictions on access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling.

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and, for more than a month, it has functioned normally. It’s a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to try eventually  in living patients.

A GOP supermajority in the North Carolina House voted Wednesday to override the governor’s veto of legislation to ban gender-affirming treatments for transgender minors.

Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, according to a research report issued Tuesday.

Texas wants Planned Parenthood to give back millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements — and pay additional fines— in a lawsuit that appears to be the first of its kind.

Patients who take drugs such Ozempic or Wegovy for weight-loss may face life-threatening complications if they have surgery or other procedures that require an empty stomach for anesthesia.

Some private insurers are balking at the expected cost of the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients.

Eli Lilly’s diabetes treatment Mounjaro, which is widely used for weight loss, posted nearly $1 billion in second-quarter sales, or more than $200 million above expectations.

A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges.

Federal health officials have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of mothers in the U.S. each year.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall Aug. 3 for certain models of the Philips Avent Digital Video Baby Monitor.

Infants should get an injection of a new drug to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, heath advisers recommended Thursday.

The Centers for Disease Control reports the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations recorded for the time frame of July 16-22 were 12.1% higher than the previous week.

Federal regulators are warning consumers that now-recalled lots of the Tydemy birth control pill “may have reduced effectiveness” due to decreased levels of a key ingredient of the product.