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For about a week in May, Alabama had the harshest anti-transgender law in the U.S. Any doctor who prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy to people under the age of 18 could face felony charges, spend up to 10 years in prison and pay a $15,000 fine. Physicians scrambled to…

As a young boy living in what was then Zaire, Bertine Bahige remembers watching refugees flee from the Rwandan genocide in 1994 by crossing a river that forms the two Central African nations’ border.

The stock market resumed losses Monday morning after briefly trading higher as investors awaited Wednesday's Federal Reserve rate decision. Health care, real estate and energy were among the worst-performing sectors. The Nasdaq composite is trading 0.3% lower at noon EDT while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 0.1%. The…

Premiums are expected to rise, and employers will have to decide whether to shift those costs to workers.

More than 60 million people of Hispanic heritage live in the U.S.

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I am 48 and am being treated for metastatic breast cancer. Despite my diagnosis, I live a fairly normal life, am physically active and strive to optimize my health from a noncancer standpoint. An acquaintance who works in health care advised that I should watch closely for…

Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth.

People in rural Australia don’t experience higher rates of mental illness than their city counterparts – it’s just more likely to end in tragedy when they do

In her fourth trip to Illinois since taking office, the vice president warned that reproductive rights are under assault across the nation. “And so we need you to get the vote out this November because truly, truly, this election, I do believe will determine the future of not only your…