Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has signed a new law banning abortion pills, making it the first state to pass an explicit ban on such pills since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. Although 13 states previously had blanket...

Over 84 million Americans currently rely on Medicaid, a government-sponsored health insurance program for low-income individuals and families. However, as states begin to check eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years,...

President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking a malaria drug to protect against the new coronavirus, despite warnings from his own government that it should only be administered for COVID-19 in a hospital or research setting due to potentially...

Amid the stressful environment caused by the novel coronavirus, you’re probably tempted to eat lots of junk food and sit on the couch all day doing work or binge-watching TV. While this lifestyle is attractive at first, your body quickly rejects...

To get the best out of your daily blood pressure medication, take it just before you go to bed, say researchers. It’s a simple tip that could save lives, they say in the European Heart Journal. The pills offer more protection against...

A cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year worldwide if it was routinely given to people brought into hospital with head injuries, UK doctors say. Tranexamic acid helps stop bleeding in and around the...

A drug used to treat enlarged prostates may be a powerful medicine against Parkinson’s disease, according to an international team of scientists. Terazosin helps ease benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) by relaxing the muscles of the bladder...

A daily pill containing four medicines can cut the number of heart attacks and strokes by a third, a study shows. The polypill contains blood-thinning aspirin, a cholesterol-lowering statin and two drugs to lower blood pressure. The researchers...

A strain of the common cold virus can infect and kill bladder cancer cells, a small study suggests. All signs of the disease disappeared in one patient, and in 14 others there was evidence that cancer cells had died. University of Surrey researchers...

Doctors normally resort to bacteriophages (bacteria-killing viruses) to kill antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” only when they’ve run out of options, in part because it’s difficult to find the ideal example. It can take...