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Controversies often arise over pharmacists refusing to dispense medication, from Plan B to unproven COVID-19 treatments. Each one raises questions about professional rights and responsibilities.

This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet—which allows moderate meat consumption—and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by […]

As the battle for health care plays out in Washington, the shutdown itself could also make it harder for Americans to get the care they need.

Fever during pregnancy presents real dangers to both the mother and the fetus – an OB-GYN explains the critical role of acetaminophen in preventing serious outcomes.

Holding the line to keep the government closed is painful for them, but most of them saw it as the only way to start their comeback.

In a ruling by turns petulant, defiant, and resigned, a federal judge in Texas who has spent the past three years trying to help conservative groups overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone has bowed out of the case. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has transferred the case formerly known […]

Marie Curie’s daughter Irene continued her family’s Nobel legacy by discovering artificial radioactivity.

Without support from the community, workplace, government and society as a whole, even doctors have trouble breastfeeding – a challenge commercial infant formula companies take advantage of.

Gavi, the world’s largest vaccine funder, now faces a funding shortfall following the shutdown of USAID.