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In the early days of the outbreak, Kevin Kwong was among several people who spent days in search of the right diagnosis.

Two studies have outlined the staggering financial, social and healthcare toll of America’s gun violence epidemic. The groups behind the study hope the cost will spur legislative and cultural change.

With abortion access changing in many states, college health centers are trying to understand their rights and responsibilities when counseling students who become pregnant.

After the only abortion clinic in Montgomery, Ala., shut down, a next-door organization has been threading a legal needle to give reproductive health care to those coming from hundreds of miles away.

The Indiana doctor who provided an abortion for a 10-year-old girl last month is fighting back against suggestions that she made up the story and failed to file appropriate paperwork.

Manchin’s vote is key in the evenly divided Senate, and he already rejected President Joe Biden’s larger spending package in December.

Mental health advocates hope the new hotline will make it much easier to get support if you’re in crisis or helping someone who is. Here’s how it works and what could stand in its way.

Birth control pills are available in the U.S. only with a prescription. Now a drugmaker is asking the FDA to approve a progestin-only contraceptive that would be available without one at pharmacies.

Pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for medications used for abortion could be violating civil rights law. The meds are also used to treat miscarriages, arthritis and ulcers.

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, whether a health plan paid for abortion varied widely. Now it’s become even more complex, with conflicts and court challenges on the horizon.