Health

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed laws defining the phrase intercourse in state legislation, turning into the second state this 12 months to offer a solution to the more and more polarizing query, “What is a woman?” ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed Americans Thursday to stay on guard throughout the summer time pageant season towards mpox, the virus previously known as monkeypox that's endemic to Africa. ...

A shock, late-stage lung most cancers prognosis final fall threatened to take one of many District area’s most recognizable voices off the air. But after profitable robot-assisted surgical procedure, WTOP News reporter Neal Augenstein says medical doctors inform him there’s not any signal of the lethal illness in his lungs. ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas would turn into the most important state to ban gender-transition look after minors below a invoice despatched Wednesday evening to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has beforehand ordered baby welfare officers to research such remedy as abuse. ...

KYIV, Ukraine — As the lead trauma surgeon at a army hospital in Ukraine’s capital, Petro Nikitin has his fingers deep in a warfare churning tons of of kilometers (miles) away. The 59-year-old physician’s work to restore the our bodies of a few of the most badly injured troopers is all-consuming. ...

RICHMOND, Va. — As extra Southern states go new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to develop into an outlier within the area for its comparatively permissive legal guidelines, establishing the state as a vacation spot for girls in search of abortions and elevating questions on suppliers’ capability to fulfill demand. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Access to abortion is actually locked down in Illinois. But Democrats are in search of methods to additional shield the observe and its availability, together with to outsiders who probably face home-state penalties for looking for remedy right here. ...

The state of California won't require medical doctors who object to assisted suicide to offer life-ending medicines to sufferers or refer such sufferers to different well being suppliers, a federal choose ordered Wednesday. ...

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan firms might be prohibited from firing or in any other case retaliating in opposition to staff for receiving an abortion underneath a invoice signed Wednesday by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that amends the state’s civil rights legislation. ...

The fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday from pro-life medical doctors over banning the abortion capsule after the Supreme Court refused to impose limitations on its use — for now. ...