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It's Halloween, and sugary foods are front and center at holiday parties and trick-or-treating. With candy being handed out, health experts weigh in on how much sugar is too much sugar.

A new report says Alabama could be doing more for residents who are disabled. The financial website Wallethub says a new study shows our state has several cities that rank low on accommodating citizens with special needs.

Six families, who had loved ones die in the state prison system, have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections and others, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies. The families crowded into a Montgomery courtroom Tuesday for a brief status conference in the consolidated litigation.

A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children.

An Alabama woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus. Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, about 28 miles northwest of Birmingham, gave birth to two girls on Wednesday and Thursday after a combined 20 hours of labor.

A familiar voice during Alabama Public Radio’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic will succeed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the nation's top infectious disease expert.

U.S. Senator Katie Britt, of Alabama, said that she has returned home from the hospital and is recovering after a non-life threatening condition caused sudden numbness in her face. Britt said she suddenly experienced the numbness last weekend in Montgomery.

Birmingham will be hosting another sporting event starting next year. The Magic City will be the holding The Transplant Games of America in the summer of 2024. The mission of the event is to honor the legacy of people who donate and to highlight the need for organ transplants.

Alabama hospitals are seeing a breakout of Norovirus. The state says six cases have been reported so far this month. The disease is the most common cause of gastroenteritis. The virus is highly contagious.

Work is underway to help rural hospitals in Alabama stay afloat. At least fifteen hospitals in rural Alabama are in danger of shutting down. That’s according to the Alabama Hospital Association.