HEALTH

(Headline USA)  Popular weight loss drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy will carry a new warning about a possible rare side effect that can sometimes lead to permanent vision loss, U.S. health regulators announced Monday. The Food and Drug Administration said the risk will be added to the labeling of all...

(Catrina Barker, The Center Square) A Chicago children's hospital is offering flu vaccines to children while they are under anesthesia for surgery or other scheduled procedures, a practice a state lawmaker and pediatric anesthesiologist says can be appropriate when parents provide informed consent. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital...

(Headline USA) Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on Friday that he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss “several weeks” of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation facility. Murphy, 53, said in a statement that doctors...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Americans buying health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces face another substantial price increase in 2027, compounding the strain that has already prompted millions to leave individual coverage.  In an October 30  New York Times report, Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger Katz described households struggling with...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday directed the federal government to bolster federal research into women's health through all stages of their lives, a move pushed by his wife, first lady Melania Trump. The Republican president signed an executive order creating a Women’s Health Division at the National Institutes...

(Headline USA) Gail Spreen goes most days to Mass just a few blocks from her home in Chicago, but the service at Holy Name Cathedral on Wednesday — dedicated to Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV — felt different. “Knowing that everybody is behind him, it was very special to be there today,"...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, has denied rumors that he was at a mental hospital earlier this month. Talarico addressed the issue Sunday in an interview with local NBC reporter Phil Prazan, attributing his recent nine-day absence to having the flu....

(Headline USA) New restrictions have stripped Medicaid coverage from certain legal immigrants as part of broader federal changes to the health insurance program. The change effective Oct. 1 cut from Medicaid what is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of people who've immigrated to the United States, in the latest...

(Headline USA) The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation's main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to see the drug's use curtailed. The FDA gave a court-ordered update on its progress in a...

(Headline USA) Police bodycam footage released Friday shows the moment officers located and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. In one video, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask he was wearing to hide...

(José Niño, Headline USA) At least six major hospital systems have agreed to stop providing transgender-related medical interventions to minors under settlements with the Trump administration, according to a New York Times report published on Tuesday. The agreements end Justice Department inquiries into possible billing misconduct and consumer fraud...

(Headline USA) Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for...