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Geena Davis testified Thursday that she does not believe she was ever legally married to a plastic surgeon who filed for divorce from her in 2018 even though a video of a 2001 ceremony shows her vowing to love him as her husband until death.

President Donald Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical. The appointment wasn’t on Trump’s weekend public schedule, and his last physical was in February. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the 73-year-old president was “anticipating a very busy 2020”...

New Hampshire lawmakers considered more than a dozen bills related to marijuana this year, but fewer than half of them became law. A push to have New Hampshire join others that have legalized recreational use of the drug fizzled, as did efforts to expand the qualifying conditions for the state’s medical marijuana program and to allow patients to grow their...

As a kid, “Queer Eye” foodie Antoni Porowski had a love-hate relationship with Polish fare. It was standard in his Polish Canadian family, but he was a picky eater. He didn’t like caraway seeds. He truly didn’t like beets. And once he and his dad decamped from Montreal to Glade Springs, West Virginia, the 12-year-old boy with the funny name...

Officials and researchers in Massachusetts issued warnings this week about the potential dangers of e-cigarettes amid a spate of sicknesses related to vaping.

There are new concerns being raised about the potential dangers of e-cigarettes amid a spate of sicknesses related to vaping.

A lifesaving drug is not required on flights due to a shortage. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and “America’s Sexiest Doctor” want to change that. Schumer has teamed up with Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, People magazine’s “America’s Sexiest Doctor,” to call on the Federal Aviation Administration to require EpiPens on all flights.

A former USC gynecologist accused of sexual misconduct involving students at the campus health center has been arrested, according to Los Angeles police

New Hampshire isn’t ready to legalize recreational marijuana use, but it is close to expanding options for those who use it for medical reasons.

Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who had previously said she was unsure about the bill, signed it in her office.

Teva Pharmaceuticals has expanded its recall of blood pressure and heart medicine by discontinuing sales of certain 50 mg and 100 mg strength losartan potassium USP Tablets, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Teva’s recall started on April 25 due to the detection of a carcinogen in an active ingredient. The drugs listed in recall notices this week...

Maine lawmakers have approved a bill allowing physician assisted suicide in the state. The proposed “death with dignity” law allows someone 18 or older who is suffering from terminal illness to request medication ending their life from a willing doctor.

Maine will allow advanced practice clinicians who aren’t full-fledged doctors to perform abortions.

Maine is making it easier to get an abortion with the governor’s signing of her bill to allow nurse practitioners and other non-doctors to perform abortions.

A former physician assistant has been sentenced to four years in prison for receiving more than $49,000 from a drug manufacturer in exchange for writing more than 700 fentanyl spray prescriptions. Christopher Clough, of Dover, New Hampshire, was convicted in December on charges of conspiracy and the receipt of kickbacks.

A bill seeking to preserve abortion protections in state law fails to pass a key committee. Lawmakers cite God, church and faith in proclaiming their opposition to it. Abortion-rights groups protest outside a gathering of lawmakers. What sounds like a legislative fight in a state controlled by anti-abortion Republicans is actually quite different. The bill seeking to protect abortion rights...

Maine’s Senate has passed a bill to allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse-midwives to perform abortions. The Senate voted 19-16 Thursday for the bill. Such advanced clinicians could provide medication abortion and in-clinic abortions, which typically involve suction. The bill faces another round of procedural action in both chambers before heading to Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who brought...

Maine lawmakers may allow medical professional who aren’t doctors to perform abortions. A proposal making that legal its way through the state’s legislature.

Maine lawmakers may allow medical professionals who aren’t doctors to perform abortions.

As abortion opponents cheer the passage of fetal heartbeat laws and other bans on the procedure, abortion-rights groups have been waging a quieter battle in courthouses around the country to overturn less direct restrictions passed in recent years. At least a dozen lawsuits have been filed over the last two years challenging what abortion-rights groups call TRAP laws, Targeted Restrictions...