Health

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday.

A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread — to save on cooking oil.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health care providers could face criminal charges over accusations about their care of newborns delivered during certain abortion procedures after the Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday overrode Democratic Gov.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Wednesday temporarily halted enforcement of a first-of-its-kind rule that restricts access to gender-affirming health care for transgender kids and adults , just hours before it was set to take effect.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous gut infections — an easier way of performing so-called fecal transplants.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients, in a criminal trial that came after the university system made nearly $700 milli

VICTORIA — A British Columbia company offering health services to patients who pay annual fees starting at $4,650 has agreed to modify its policies, averting a court challenge over public health care, says the province's health minister.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government's rollout of COVID-19 vaccines was effective and widespread, but its paper-based consent forms were a hurdle that needs to be changed, auditor general Tyson Shtykalo said Wednesday.

Michelle Logeot refers to the biggest health scare of her life as "the event," the type she does not want other women to experience when doctors misdiagnose them or dismiss symptoms of a potentially deadly heart attack.