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Kofi Annan was committed to increasing the U.N.'s efforts to combat poverty, promote equality and fight for human rights - and until his death Saturday he was speaking out strongly for nations working together to solve problems

New York University, citing a 'moral imperative' to reduce debt, is offering free tuition for all of its medical students

US officials approve new generic competitor for emergency allergy medication EpiPen

President Donald Trump is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a federal lawsuit against certain companies that supply and manufacture opioids in response to the nation's drug epidemic

Chipotle says it will retrain employees on food safety protocols after Ohio illnesses

German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG says it can now start integrating U.S. seed and weed-killer maker Monsanto Co. after completing the required sale of some of its crop science business

Chinese deputy governors, mayor fired over vaccine scandal following public outcry

Chinese deputy provincial governors, mayor fired over vaccine scandal that triggered public outcry

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is pushing more into the health field, acquiring a company that provides emergency response devices for the aging

Danes will erect a 70-kilometer (43.4-mile) fence along the German border to stop wild boars from crossing, in the hope of preventing the spread of African swine fever that can jeopardize the country's big pork industry.

A medical device maker has settled a lawsuit over the death of a Yale University psychologist who died in 2013 when a machine part detached and caused her blood to be pumped onto a hospital room floor

Toxins used in nonstick cookware, fast-food wrappers and much more are turning up in public water systems in dozens of states

Toxins used in nonstick cookware, fast-food wrappers and much more are turning up in public water systems in dozens of states

Shares in German chemicals and drugs company Bayer have plunged in the wake of a U.S. court verdict against Monsanto, which Bayer has acquired

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's week marked by assertions of record-breaking economic growth that doesn't exist

The founder of The Good Earth restaurant chain who was considered a health food pioneer has died at age 89

Los Angeles-based health care nonprofit known for funding controversial ballot measures wages expensive battle with real estate industry over rent control in California

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's overblown and false claims about tariffs, the economy, wildfires and vets; misleading rhetoric from Sen. Bernie Sanders on 'Medicare for all'

Lawyers say a jury's $289 million award to a California man who claims Monsanto's Roundup weed killer gave him cancer may open the floodgates for legions of people suffering because of the agribusiness giant

A San Francisco jury has awarded $289 million to a former school groundskeeper who claimed Monsanto's popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his terminal cancer