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US pharmacy chains announce abortion pill rollout
America's two biggest pharmacy chains said Friday they will begin dispensing prescription abortion pills in a limited number of st...
19 injured as car drives into crowd in Poland's Sz...
A car ploughed into crowds on a street in the Polish city of Szczecin on Friday injuring 19 people, including six children, accord...
S. Korea police raid medical association office ov...
South Korean police raided the offices of the Korean Medical Association on Friday, an officer told AFP, as the government contend...
More than one billion now afflicted by obesity: La...
More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 199...
Alabama lawmakers vote to protect IVF in wake of c...
Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation Thursday to protect health workers at IVF clinics from legal liability after the southern...
Oprah's WeightWatchers exit sends stock tumbling
Oprah Winfrey's announcement that she is leaving the board of WeightWatchers sent the company's shares tumbling Thursday -- the la...
S. Korea seeks talks with striking medics as retur...
South Korea said Thursday it was seeking its first talks with striking junior doctors, warning them to return to hospitals ahead o...
Peter Doherty: 'Shooting heroin became a military...
Peter Doherty can look back on his junkie days with some objectivity now he's clean and happily married to the woman who spent alm...
'PFAS' no longer sold in US to package greasy food...
Regulators on Wednesday said materials with harmful chemicals known as "PFAS" are no longer being sold to package microwave popcor...
Small US town a 'pawn' in push to ban abortions na...
When Marcia Smith moved to a small town in New Mexico last year, she did not expect to find herself battling a Donald Trump-linked...
WTO pushes for reform, warns multilateralism 'unde...
The World Trade Organization pushed for reform at a high-level ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi Monday, warning that economic head...
S. Korea urges doctors to return to work as protes...
South Korea called Monday for trainee doctors to return to work, saying they would be spared punitive actions if they went back to...
Honduras footballer Elis remains in coma after hea...
Honduras striker Alberth Elis remained in an induced coma on Sunday after a serious head injury with his French club Bordeaux say...
Honduras striker Elis in hospital after serious he...
Honduras striker Alberth Elis remained in hospital on Sunday, according to media reports, after being put into a coma following a...
Israel to discuss 'next steps' in Gaza truce talks
Israel sounded a positive note Saturday on efforts to broker a new hostage release and ceasefire deal in its war with Hamas, as co...
Strikes kill dozens in Gaza as Israel, Hamas seek...
Dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed in the latest Israeli strikes, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry...
Strikes on Gaza kill scores as Paris hosts new tru...
Overnight strikes on Gaza killed dozens, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said Saturday, as Israel's spy chief joined tal...
Emigrate or waste away: dilemma for Venezuela mult...
For Venezuelan Jaimar Tuarez, 22, being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis felt like a death sentence in a country unable to provid...
Republicans start to back off controversial Alabam...
A wave of Republicans, including Donald Trump on Friday, are vowing to protect IVF in the wake of an Alabama court ruling threate...
Southern Gaza hit as Israeli spy chief holds new t...
Israeli air strikes targeted homes in southern Gaza, witnesses said on Friday, adding to what aid groups describe as an increasing...
Israel strikes Gaza's Rafah as truce talks under w...
Israel launched air strikes Thursday on southern Gaza's Rafah after threatening to send troops into the city, where around 1.4 mil...
King Charles III meets PM in person for weekly aud...
King Charles III on Wednesday met British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in person for their weekly audience for the first time since...
US vetoes UN truce vote as Israel pounds Gaza
The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Tuesday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, with Israel conti...
S. Korean trainee doctors stop work to protest med...
South Korean hospitals turned away some patients and delayed surgeries on Tuesday as hundreds of trainee doctors stopped working i...
Israel sets Ramadan deadline for assault on Gazan...
Israel has threatened to invade Gaza's Rafah by the start of Ramadan if Hamas does not return the remaining hostages by then, desp...
S. Korean government orders doctors back to hospit...
South Korea ordered trainee doctors back to work Monday after they resigned en masse to protest medical training reforms, with the...
'I literally died': Luton's Lockyer details life-t...
Luton captain Tom Lockyer has revealed his heart stopped for two minutes and 40 seconds during an on-pitch cardiac arrest that lef...
AU to push renewal of US AIDS plan: Africa CDC bos...
The African Union's health watchdog said on Sunday the continent's leaders will "send a strong message" for the renewal of the mai...
Fears grow for crucial Gaza hospital after Israeli...
Fears mounted Saturday for people trapped in one of Gaza's main hospitals after Israeli troops raided the facility and the Hamas-r...
Olympic cycling champion Hoy reveals he has cancer
Six-time Olympic cycling champion Chris Hoy revealed Friday he has been diagnosed with cancer but insisted he was "optimistic and...
Alarm over fate of major Gaza hospital after Israe...
There was growing concern Friday over a key Gaza hospital a day after a raid by the Israeli army, with the Hamas-run health minist...
Israel faces fresh US calls against attack on Rafa...
Israel faced renewed calls from key ally the United States on Friday against launching a large-scale attack on Gaza's southern cit...