Health care services

Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman's breast for breast cancer.Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesMost women should get screened for breast cancer…

From catching Covid-19 to getting caught in a blizzard, traveling can be risky business these days.But just how risky often depends on the destination — and how you define the risks.Safest…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis hospital says it has paused, not stopped, its gender-affirming services in response to possible legal action by civil rights advocates who…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Civil rights advocates say a Memphis hospital is no longer providing gender-affirming surgeries, a move they argue is illegal and…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Macon hospital authority wants its local government to start sharing local property tax collections to help pay for indigent care.The Macon-Bibb County…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa jury has returned a $27 million verdict against a Des Moines medical clinic after a man with bacterial meningitis was misdiagnosed with the…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Over half of Mississippi's rural hospitals are at risk of closing…

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China's southern metropolis of Guangzhou announced plans Thursday to build quarantine facilities for…

By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two Wyoming State Hospital patients died while staff at the mental health institution failed to…

CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the third time in three straight elections, California voters rejected a ballot measure that…