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In this 2022 image provided by PSE Healthy Energy, a gas stove is tested for benzene in California. Stoves in California homes are leaking the cancer-causing gas benzene, researchers found in a new study published on Thursday, Oct. 20, though they say more research is needed to understand how many homes have leaks.

Study: Cancer-causing gas leaking from CA stoves, pipes

October 20, 2022, 8:42am Health

Gas stoves in California homes are leaking cancer-causing benzene, researchers found in a new study published on Thursday, though they say more research is needed to understand how many homes have leaks. Read story

FILE - A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

COVID-19 linked to increase in U.S. pregnancy-related deaths

October 19, 2022, 7:17pm Health

COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday.. Read story

U.S. clears Novavax COVID booster dose

October 19, 2022, 7:16pm Health

U.S. regulators on Wednesday authorized a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax. Read story

FILE - An embryologist uses a microscope to examine an embryo, visible on a monitor, center, at a clinic in New York on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Black-white disparities exist in fertility medicine, according to a study of U.S. births, released on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. Researchers found a gap in deaths of infants born to Black women who used fertility treatment compared to white women, a gap much wider than seen in babies born without fertility treatment.

Race gap seen in U.S. infant deaths after fertility treatment

October 19, 2022, 8:44am Health

Black-white disparities exist in fertility medicine, reflected in life-and-death outcomes for babies, according to a large study of U.S. births. Read story

Dr. Connor McNamee, a third-year family medicine resident at the University of Toledo Medical Center, poses at the medical center, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Toledo, Ohio. Students in obstetrics-gynecology and family medicine are facing tough choices about where to advance their training in a landscape where legal access to abortion varies from state to state. McNamee began exploring abortion training outside Ohio last summer. A state law bans most abortions after cardiac activity is detected, but a judge has blocked it while a challenge proceeds.

Abortion access looms over medical residency applications

October 19, 2022, 8:35am Health

Students in obstetrics-gynecology and family medicine — two of the most popular medical residencies — face tough choices about where to advance their training in a landscape where legal access to abortion varies from state to state. Read story

FILE - This 2006 file photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. A study published Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in the journal Cell, finds that certain people really are "mosquito magnets" who get bitten more than others -- and it probably has to do with the way they smell.

Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell

October 18, 2022, 3:41pm Health

A new study finds that some people really are “mosquito magnets” and it probably has to do with the way they smell. Read story

FDA pushes to remove pregnancy drug, company pushes back

October 17, 2022, 7:51am Health

The maker of the only U.S. drug intended to prevent premature births is making a last-ditch effort this week to keep its medication on the market, even as health regulators insist that it doesn’t work. Read story

Hospitals have been slow to bring on addiction specialists

October 17, 2022, 5:53am Health

In December, Marie, who lives in coastal Swampscott, Massachusetts, began having trouble breathing. Three days after Christmas, she woke up gasping for air and dialed 911. Read story

Hurricane Ian shows that coastal hospitals aren’t ready for climate change

October 16, 2022, 6:00am Health

As rapidly intensifying storms and rising sea levels threaten coastal cities from Texas to the tip of Maine, Hurricane Ian has just demonstrated what researchers have warned: Hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. are not ready for climate change. Read story

FILE - This Wednesday, April 11, 2012 file photo shows turkeys at a farm in Lebanon, Pa. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022 proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations.

Fighting food poisoning: Sweeping poultry changes proposed

October 14, 2022, 7:30am Health

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations. Read story