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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addresses the media during a wide-ranging international press conference on Thursday in Budapest, Hungary.

Hungary Says It Will Offer Free Fertility Treatments To Counter Population Decline

1:08pm January 10, 2020

by Merrit Kennedy

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is fiercely opposed to immigration and has said that boosting national fertility rates is his preferred way to counter the population downturn and risk of labor shortages.

North Carolina Town Damaged By Flooding Gets Federal Assistance For Levees

12:26pm January 10, 2020

by Associated Press

Norm Ciha says he lost his bedding, clothes and the medicine he'd been prescribed to treat hepatitis C during a sweep of his camp outside an Ikea in Emeryville, Calif., in November 2018.

Sweeps Of Homeless Camps In California Aggravate Key Health Issues

11:50am January 10, 2020

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Cities have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling homeless camps that they say pose a risk to health and safety. But that's meant some displaced people are losing needed medications.

Doctors are performing pelvic exams and Pap smears on girls and young women that may be unnecessary.

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Teen Girls Don't Need Routine Pelvic Exams. Why Are Doctors Doing So Many?

11:33pm January 09, 2020

by Emily Vaughn

Guidelines around the procedures have changed, but physicians' habits haven't, according to a new study.

Two women who were sexually abused as children say the Jehovah's Witnesses failed to report their abuser to authorities in Montana and instead expelled him from the congregation as punishment until he repented. Pictured, in 2015, is a sign atop the then-w

Montana Court Reverses $35 Million Child Abuse Verdict Against Jehovah's Witnesses

6:11pm January 09, 2020

by Merrit Kennedy

The unanimous Montana Supreme Court decision found that religious institutions are not always obligated to report child sexual abuse to authorities due to an exemption in Montana state law.

A new survey of Americans across all income brackets captures some surprising views about the experience and expectations of economic success in the U.S. today.

Is There Hope For The American Dream? What Americans Think About Income Inequality

5:27pm January 09, 2020

by Joe Neel

A new survey of Americans across all income brackets captures some surprising views about their economic experience and expectations of success.

People who smoke, vape or use nicotine in any form will not be hired by U-Haul in the 21 states where such hiring policies are legal.

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U-Haul's Nicotine-Free Hiring Rule Reflects A Trend That Troubles Workers' Advocates

4:36pm January 09, 2020

by Blake Farmer

U-Haul is the latest company to say it won't hire nicotine users, in the 21 states where that's legal. It's one way to avoid the costs of smoking-related illness, but critics call it discrimination.

United Nations peacekeepers stand next to a patient during a visit of the U.N. secretary-general at an Ebola treatment center in Mangina, North Kivu province, last September.

What Will It Take To Finally End Congo's Ebola Outbreak In 2020?

11:21am January 09, 2020

by Nurith Aizenman

As the world's second-worst Ebola outbreak in history drags into a new year, experts think the solution is less about medicine, and more about security.

A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette in a photograph taken in New York, last year.

San Diego Schools Sue Juul Labs Over Youth Vaping Epidemic

8:23am January 09, 2020

by Scott Neuman

San Diego Unified School District alleges that vaping-related illnesses caused by the e-cigarette maker's products increase student absences, forcing schools to spend on prevention and treatment.

Overall, researchers found men died of alcohol-related causes in 2017 at a higher rate than women. But when analyzing annual increases in deaths, the largest increase was among white women.

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U.S. Alcohol-Related Deaths Have Doubled, Study Says

11:05pm January 08, 2020

Death certificates spanning 2017 indicate nearly 73,000 people died in the U.S from liver disease and other alcohol-related illnesses. That is up from just under 36,000 deaths in 1999.