Health

(Reuters) - A Missouri judge ruled on Monday the state’s only abortion clinic can remain open for at least five more days, but he ordered Planned Parenthood to take its fight against closure to a state arbiter. A banner stating "STILL HERE" hangs on the side of...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether insurers can seek $12 billion from the federal government under a program set up by the Obamacare law aimed at encouraging them to offer medical coverage to previously uninsured Americans. FILE PHOTO: A sign on an...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo(Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge on Monday approved a revised $85 million settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd resolving claims by the state’s attorney general that the drugmaker helped fuel the U.S....

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the federal government must pay insurers $12 billion under an Obamacare program aimed at encouraging them to cover previously uninsured people after the healthcare law was enacted in 2010. FILE PHOTO: A sign on an insurance...

Opioid overdoses may be much more likely to happen in families when somebody in the household has been prescribed these drugs, a U.S. study suggests. Even when a family member gets lower doses of opioids - less than 50 morphine milligram equivalents per day - the overdose...

LONDON (Reuters) - Midwifery students in London are learning to bring new life into the world in a radically new way with the help of augmented reality (AR) technology.  Using AR headsets and lifelike models of full-term mothers, trainee midwives at Middlesex University can take part in fully...

FILE PHOTO: A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine at the International Community Health Services clinic in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson(Reuters) - Thirty-three new measles cases were recorded in the United States last week, most of them in New York,...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump listens to questions from reporters during a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst(Reuters) - President Donald Trump will sign an executive order aimed at ...

FILE PHOTO: A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine at the International Community Health Services clinic in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson(Reuters) - The United States recorded 33 new measles cases last week, bringing the number of confirmed cases this year...

FILE PHOTO: A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine at the International Community Health Services clinic in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson(Reuters) - The United States recorded 33 new measles cases last week, taking the confirmed cases for the year to...