Federal health officials are warning doctors to be on the lookout for rare bacterial infections on the rise in the United States. A Republican-backed plan to partly extend Medicaid in Mississippi passed the state Senate. But first... A ‘divinely created’ being: States try to define fetal personhood When is a human embryo not a clump of cells but a person with distinct legal rights? A Georgia law enacted in 2022 considers people to be “Homo sapiens at any stage of development