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In a clash over the past versus the future, some descendants of enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, are fighting to keep a grain terminal from being built in their historic Black neighborhood

Mental health experts, community clinics and politicians are working to create new programs to break down barriers that Latinos might face to getting therapy or treatment

Abortion access ballot measures are the center of a new wave of legal and procedural questions across the U.S. In Arizona, there's a dispute over language to describe a measure that could go before voters in November

This summer’s extreme heat is raising the danger of heat-related illnesses and threatening health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications

More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched

ABC News’ Lori Bergamotto brings some of her favorite summer products that make cooling down in the summer sweeter.

Board-certified psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Judith Joseph discusses what people looking for ADHD medication can do to help mitigate their symptoms.

Quinault Indian Nation, in Washington state, has spent at least a decade working to relocate hundreds of people whose homes are threatened by a rising Pacific Ocean

According to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, relatively few Americans fully endorse the idea that a fertilized egg should have the same rights as a pregnant woman

ABC News' Diane Macedo speaks with other women and doctors about rising numbers of women being diagnosed with ADHD as adults, and details her own recent diagnosis.

ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with NYU professor of developmental psychology Dr. Niobe Way about "Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture."

Officials with health care companies in Oregon say more than 2,400 patients at hospitals in the Portland area may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, and HIV, because of a physician who may not have followed infection co...

Backers of an Arizona abortion rights ballot initiative have sued a GOP-led legislative committee that seeks to include language on material for voters referring to a fetus as “an unborn human being.”

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on state ballots this November

Top court lets New Yorkers vote on constitutional amendment barring discrimination over gender or 'pregnancy outcomes'

Some experts say the U.S. should vaccinate farmworkers against bird flu.

ABC News’ Faith Abubéy takes a closer look at new initiatives expanding access to midwifery care, which experts believe can help reduce America's alarming rate of maternal mortality.

A lawsuit has been filed in the case of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media

Lawsuit filed in case of Massachusetts teenager who died after taking part in spicy chip challenge

Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv in four months has had severe consequences, paralyzing the operations of the country’s largest children’s hospital and severely affecting the young patients already battling life-threatening diseases

Dozens of salmonella illnesses have been linked to raw milk from a California farm

Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague

Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come

Arkansas election officials have rejected the petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure

ABC News’ Diane Macedo chats with psychiatrist and ADHD expert, Dr. Sasha Hamdani on the rise of ADHD.

Couples who sleep in separate rooms see no lack of intimacy, only quality sleep

Washington politics is drawing attention to cognitive testing, a 10-minute series of questions to assess different brain function

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant

The UK's NHS Cass Review has been cited in restrictive trans care policies.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, the family that owns it and lawyers for thousands of parties with claims against it are getting ready to work on a new settlement after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the last one

Every three minutes someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with blood cancer, according to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A nonprofit is working to bridge the gap between patients and scientific research.

Wastewater data indicates COVID activity is increasing in the western U.S.

A woman who received a pig kidney transplant has died

COVID-19 case numbers are on the rise in 39 states for the summer while hospitalizations and death rates remain low.

Medical advocacy groups have welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices

A Massachusetts man can speak again after surgeons removed his cancerous voice box and replaced it with a donated one, a pioneering move

A new poll finds that a solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban and that a rising number appear to support access to abortions for any reason

Organizers of a proposed ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota have submitted petitions

Republicans move to adopt platform at Trump's behest without explicit call for a national abortion ban, AP sources say

The surgeon general has said there's a loneliness epidemic in America

Two years after marijuana was decriminalized in Thailand, nearly a hundred of its advocates marched to the prime minister’s office to protest a possible ban on general use

South Korea's government has announced it will abandon its plan to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors to resolve the country’s long medical impasse

South Korea says it’ll withdraw its plan to suspend licenses of striking doctors to resolve the long medical impasse

The Republican National Committee’s platform committee is adopting a policy document that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position — opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to the states

A group of Baltimore teachers is asking voters to approve a ballot initiative that would give $1,000 to new parents in hopes of reducing childhood poverty starting from birth

For 12 straight months the world was 1.5 C warmer than pre-industrial times.

Global temperature hits record for 13th straight month in 'stark warning' of dangerous warming, European agency says

A person has died from the heat and another is hospitalized as temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley

Officials at the remote site of a derailed train carrying hazardous materials that sparked a fire in North Dakota briefly issued a shelter-in-place notice early Sunday

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms, his office announced Sunday, but his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, has tested negative and remains asymptomatic