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The Biden administration is proposing to partially roll back a Trump-era “conscience” rule that was struck down multiple times in court. The Trump rule would have allowed health care workers to refuse to provide care that conflicted with religious beliefs. In a release Thursday, the Department of Health and Human …

A medical practice in England intended to text its patients wishes for a “very merry Christmas.” Instead, the mass text told patients they had “aggressive lung cancer” that had spread and asked them to fill out a form for terminal patients.  Exterior photo of England’s Askern Medical Practice. Askern Medical …

Can you guess the veggie that one new study says is not always bad for your health? (iStock) Welcome to the Fox News Health Newsletter. If this newsletter is not already delivered to your email, please subscribe here. ALL IN THE PREPARATION – A new study found that the way this …

The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on Thursday, opening up what is expected to be one of the country’s most lucrative markets for cannabis — underscored by the dozens of unauthorized shops that have operated in the open for years. The …

Ian Hamilton is an associate professor of addiction and mental health at the University of York and Sally Marlow is an addictions researcher at King’s College London. It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up …

Measles is spreading among children in Ohio two months after cases were first detected. As of Wednesday morning, there are at least 82 cases of measles in central Ohio, officials said, all of which are children.  Columbus Public Health first announced an investigation into the outbreak on Nov. 9 after …

Some 90,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States each year — which is roughly a 50% increase from previous estimated incidence rates, according to a recent 2022 Parkinson’s Foundation-backed study.  “The soaring numbers of Parkinson’s disease cases will lead to more falls, more hip fractures …

Megan Edgelow is an assistant professor of health sciences at Queen’s University, Ontario. The word “routine” can bring to mind words like mundane or ordinary. During the pandemic’s disruptions to daily life, routines may have felt boring and restrictive. However, as an occupational therapist and researcher of the impact of activity and …

You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but 4-year-old Jake Schumacher was born with serious heart defects.  After cardiac surgery when he was just 5 months old, he needed another procedure to place a stent to improve blood flow through the heart.  “It was pretty hard, because I just …

In an effort to ease the nation’s organ shortage, scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones. Workers in a suburban Minneapolis lab dissolve pig cells that made the organ function, leaving ghostly semitranslucent scaffolds floating in large jars. To complete the metamorphosis, they infuse those …