Health

 As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 More women are defying traditional beauty standards and finding empowerment by going without hair on their heads ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 The strike was planned by thousands of registered nurses and other staff. ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the first round of drugs that will receive drastically expedited reviews at the agency ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 Demonstrators have clashed with police during a protest against worsening air pollutionfrom a phosphate-processing plant in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more dropped ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 In the wake of massive U.S. cuts to foreign aid, the tiny country of Lesotho in southern Africa faces deep uncertainty and worry over its HIV-positive residents ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health 

 Uruguay’s senate has passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives ​Read More  ABC News: Health ​Health