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People gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas.

White House braces for ruling on abortion pill’s fate

People gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse to protest a lawsuit to ban the abortion drug mifepristone Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas.

February 24, 2023, 11:02am Health

The Biden administration is preparing for a worst-case scenario if a conservative federal judge rules in favor of a lawsuit seeking to restrict access to one of the two drugs typically used to induce a medicated abortion. Read story

Jaqueline Benitez pushes her cart down an aisle as she shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Benitez, 21, who works as a preschool teacher, depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, and starting in March she expects a significant cut, perhaps half, of the $250 in food benefits she has received since 2020.

U.S. ending extra help for groceries that started during COVID

Jaqueline Benitez pushes her cart down an aisle as she shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Benitez, 21, who works as a preschool teacher, depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, and starting in March she expects a significant cut, perhaps half, of the $250 in food benefits she has received since 2020.

February 23, 2023, 9:13am Health

Nearly 30 million Americans who got extra government help with grocery bills during the pandemic will soon see that aid shrink — and there’s a big push to make sure they’re not surprised. Read story

In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, a Cambodia animal health officer, right, and a military police officer place posters about awareness of H5N1 virus threats in hopes of educating villagers to take care of their health, in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country's first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said.

Bird flu kills 11-year-old girl in Cambodia, officials say

In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, a Cambodia animal health officer, right, and a military police officer place posters about awareness of H5N1 virus threats in hopes of educating villagers to take care of their health, in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country's first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said.

February 23, 2023, 8:45am Health

An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said. Read story

FILE - Milk is displayed at a grocery store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals - and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference.

No cow needed?: Oat and soy can be called milk, FDA proposes

FILE - Milk is displayed at a grocery store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals - and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference.

February 22, 2023, 1:49pm Business

Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as “milk” can keep using the name, according to draft federal rules released Wednesday. Read story

FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed unusually well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated, health officials said during a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccines meeting Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark J.

Flu vaccine worked well in season that faded fast, CDC says

FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed unusually well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated, health officials said during a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccines meeting Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark J.

February 22, 2023, 12:33pm Health

Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed unusually well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated. Read story

Pandemic amplified eating disorders

February 21, 2023, 6:02am Health

For almost two decades — from high school to when she was a 35-year-old graduate student — Alicia Castaneda Hatfield struggled with an eating disorder without ever talking with a doctor about it. Read story

‘Dusseldorf patient’ is 5th person cured of HIV

February 20, 2023, 4:11pm Health

A man referred to only as “the Dusseldorf patient” has become the fifth person confirmed to be cured of HIV. Read story

FILE - Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf testifies via video during a House Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hybrid hearing on the nationwide baby formula shortage on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. Califf has spent much of his last year on the job warning that growing "distortions and half-truths" surrounding vaccines and other medical products are a major driver of sickness and death in America.

FDA’s own reputation could be restraining its misinfo fight

FILE - Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf testifies via video during a House Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hybrid hearing on the nationwide baby formula shortage on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. Califf has spent much of his last year on the job warning that growing "distortions and half-truths" surrounding vaccines and other medical products are a major driver of sickness and death in America.

February 20, 2023, 7:43am Health

The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. Read story

The city of Vancouver Westside Wastewater Treatment Plant, seen in July 2019, is one of two local wastewater treatment facilities collecting samples of wastewater to send for testing for signs of the coronavirus.

Wastewater testing isn’t just for COVID: Washington expands efforts

The city of Vancouver Westside Wastewater Treatment Plant, seen in July 2019, is one of two local wastewater treatment facilities collecting samples of wastewater to send for testing for signs of the coronavirus.

February 20, 2023, 7:40am Health

It’s not a new practice to use our sewage to search for clues about public health trends. But after almost two years of building up Washington’s growing wastewater surveillance system, state epidemiologists are ready to branch out further. Read story

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf March 16 at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Allen G.

How a Texas ruling on abortion pills would affect Washington

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf March 16 at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Allen G.

February 20, 2023, 6:04am Health

As a federal judge in Texas weighs a lawsuit that could ban a commonly used abortion drug nationwide, advocates in Washington say that medication abortion will remain accessible in the state regardless of the outcome in court, but with a different, slightly less effective approach. Read story