Health

The surprise development leaves the legislation's fate uncertain while raising new doubts about whether President Trump will ever make good on his many promises to erase his predecessor's signature legislative achievement.

In a bruising setback, Senate Republican leaders are delaying a vote on their prized health care bill until after the July 4 recess.

President Trump's campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare is now in the hands of a key group of GOP senators who are opposing -- or not yet supporting -- legislation Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing to bring to a vote this week.

Manufacturers are not required to tell the Food and Drug Administration about safety issues with cosmetics or hair and skin care products. That can leave people in the dark about health risks.

Medicaid has become a prime target of Republicans in Congress who want to rein in the program's costs, which totaled $350 billion in 2015. We take a look at what all that money pays for.

Congressional forecasters say a Senate Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would leave 22 million more people uninsured in the next decade.

Republican leaders added a penalty for people who've let their insurance lapse Monday as party leaders prepared to begin pushing the health care measure through the Senate, despite a rebellion within GOP ranks.

Many American women want to breast-feed. And try to. But only about half keep it up. It's like they've lost the instinct. One researcher thinks she's figured out why. And how to get the instinct back.

Since his high-profile arrest in late 2015 when he was led into court in a gray hoodie, Martin Shkreli has been free on bail and free to speak his mind.

If passed, rural hospitals would be among those hardest hit because their patients tend to be older and poorer.

Yemen now has upwards of 200,000 cases to grapple with, and that number is only growing quickly -- by a rate of roughly 5,000 cases a day.

In their Affordable Care Act repeal bill, Senate Republicans dropped the requirement that all Americans get health insurance. But they also kept the mandate that insurance companies cover everyone.

The host of the PBS Newshour Judy Woodruff interviews speakers on the opening day of the Aspen Ideas Festival's "Spotlight on Health." They discuss the proposals from the congress and the Trump administration to replace the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act.

Senate Republicans are calling their health care bill the Better Care Reconciliation Act. It shares many provisions with the House's American Health Care Act, but goes further in cutting Medicaid.

The country's changing attitudes toward pets are highlighted by the annual dog meat festival in Yulin City. The government issues a ban on dog meat sale, then promptly reversed it.

The weed is flourishing now in the St. Charles and Lanesboro areas and is highly poisonous to people and livestock, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture says. Here's how to identify it and stay safe.

After weeks of closed-door meetings that angered Democrats and some Republicans, Senate Republicans released their long-awaited bill.

Rodents, primates and bats likely carry hundreds of thousands of viruses we haven't yet identified. But how do you know which ones might infect humans?

Senate Republican leaders say they'll unveil details of their health care bill on Thursday after writing it in secret with little input from other GOP members.