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A New Jersey hospital mistakenly gave a kidney transplant to the wrong patient who happens to have the same name as the intended recipient.

By next spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, could have strict new vaping measures in place. A county council committee has approved several bills to keep tobacco and vaping products away from children. News4’s Chris Gordon has a look at some of the proposals.

A widow is suing Maryland state officials after receiving the wrong remains for her husband who had donated his body to science.

The D.C. Department of Health confirmed the District’s first death related to vaping.

North Carolina health officials say a fourth person has died from Legionnaires’ disease. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources said in a statement on Friday that its Division of Public Health has confirmed 141 cases involving residents from counties and multiple states. In addition to the deaths, 94 people were hospitalized. Information gathered by local health officials showed...

A popular local restaurant chain stopped serving hummus after reports of diners infected with salmonella.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing to enact a statewide ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid growing health concerns connected to vaping, especially among young people.

Virginia officials have ordered several waterways closed to shellfish harvesting because of concerns over contaminants that could have been stirred up by Hurricane Dorian.

The son of reggae legend Bob Marley and a Colorado firm have applied to open a medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey.

At least two terminally ill Washington, D.C., residents ended their lives last year through the District’s aid-in-dying law

Fresh basil imported from a company in Mexico potentially caused an outbreak of intestinal illness in the D.C. area, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.

Maryland health officials are reporting an uptick in intestinal illness, joining Virginia in an increase in the reporting of the illnesses in recent weeks. Of the 42 reports of cyclosporiasis infections in Maryland this year, 37 have come in the past two weeks, the Maryland Department of Health said. No source has been identified. In Virginia, 39 cases of cyclosporiasis…

A North Carolina man has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade lake at a water park, officials said Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources said in a news release that the infection was caused by the amoeba naturally present in warm freshwater during the summer. The unnamed person became sick after swimming...

Health districts in Northern Virginia are reporting a significant increase in the number of intestinal illnesses during the last month.

Fairfax County health officials said they don’t yet have a cause of the respiratory illness that sicked more than 60 residents at a Northern Virginia senior living community.

An outbreak of a respiratory illness at a Northern Virginia senior living community has sickened more than 50 residents and likely contributed to two deaths.

A Missouri judge on Monday ruled that the state’s lone abortion clinic can continue performing abortions through Friday but kicked the clinic’s lawsuit out of court. St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer extended a preliminary injunction he previously issued in order to give a Planned Parenthood affiliate in St. Louis time to take a licensing fight before an administrative panel....

Some residents in Fauquier County, Virginia, might have been exposed to a patient possibly infected with measles, health officials said in a warning issued on Wednesday.

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Friday against a Trump administration policy it described as a “blanket ban” preventing immigrant teens in government custody from getting abortions, and it kept in place an order blocking the policy. The policy, which dates to 2017, prohibited shelters from facilitating abortions for children held in government shelters after entering the country illegally....

A St. Louis judge issued another order Monday to keep Missouri’s only abortion clinic operating while a fight over the facility’s license plays out in court. Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a preliminary injunction, which extends his earlier order to temporarily block the state from allowing the St. Louis facility’s license to...