African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda.
The mother of a teenage girl who died after doctors in the Dominican Republic delayed treating her for cancer because she was pregnant is challenging the country’s strict abortion ban.
The Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed 204 deaths, with 894 confirmed cases, Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.
FIFA’s new hydration breaks midway through each half were implemented to help players stay cool in the summer heat of Mexico, Canada and the United States, which some experts have warned could be the hottest World Cup in history.
Parents of kids with disabilities say they have waited months for the Education Department to address complaints of bullying or discrimination.
New data from the West Health-Gallup Affordability Index shows that only about half of U.S. adults could afford their healthcare and had access to quality care last year.
A former Egyptian doctor has been arrested after posting about obstetric violence and mistreatment at a university hospital in Alexandria.
Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought.
British television personality Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has prostate cancer on the final fifth-season episodes of his farm reality show.
Luigi Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Whenever Ebola comes, some of those stricken choose the road to the nearest hospital.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from a quarantine facility in Nebraska.
The family of former NFL star Aldon Smith is donating his brain to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries following his sudden death at age 36.
Paris Hilton has returned to the Utah boarding school where she said she was abused as a teenager.
A custody agreement has been reached between the Florida couple who gave birth to a baby girl at the center of an IVF mix-up and the girl's biological parents.
Congolese authorities report a large daily increase in Ebola cases as the virus without a approved medicine or vaccine spreads rapidly.
Nara Organics has recalled its organic baby formula sold at Target stores and online due to a multistate outbreak of infant botulism.
Gov. DeSantis has extended a state of emergency after the screwworm was detected in the U.S. last week. Meanwhile, Florida's agricultural leader has imposed emergency rules to ward off the threat.
Several top pro athletes and their surgeons say a modern version of an old tool is shaving weeks off the recovery time after certain injuries.
The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
A new memo from U.S. health regulators is raising questions about a recent decision to authorize the first fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adult smokers.
Israel’s Supreme Court is considering whether to extend the detention of a prominent Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, who was seized 17 months ago in Gaza.
A New Mexico judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of the state's fledgling universal childcare program.
The court officials overseeing the NFL’s $1 billion settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients toward doctors willing to give them a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis whether they exhibited symptoms or not.
A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May.
Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected.
The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with enough information about prices.
The students in Bengie Santos' exercise class at the Greater Seattle Y say there's something special about their 72-year-old instructor.
Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently.
At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo.
Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry.
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings’ prostate cancer diagnosis is prompting renewed discussion about screening and early detection. An Orlando prostate cancer specialist says the mayor’s announcement could encourage more men, particularly African American men who face higher risks, to get screened.
The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow the spread.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report the deaths of detainees who have been released from custody, in a change that could obscure the human cost of the Trump administration's mass detention policies.
A staff member says a resident killed in a fire at an unregistered nursing home in western Sri Lanka had been chained and another was untied and saved.
In Congo, the battle against the rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola has been complicated by skepticism, attacks on health workers and misinformation.
The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than a half century.
A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.
Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women.
During the final week of May, another seven eateries across Central Florida were forced to close after a visit from a health inspector, according to state records.
There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.
Congo is still hoping to play its World Cup warmup against Chile after the mayor of the Spanish city of La Linea de la Concepcion denied authorization for the match because of health concerns related to the Ebola crisis.
With construction set to begin this month, the new facility will replace the services lost when Rockledge Medical Center closed last year due to facility neglect and costly renovations after court documents showed the company was billions of dollars in debt.
A hearing in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case was held in secret after the judge shut out the press and public without explanation.
The World Health Organization chief says Congo's Ebola outbreak had a head start but that testing is improving, even as violence plagues the region.
Businessman Zach Lahn's win in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary over President Donald Trump's pick is a rare electoral setback for Trump.
Tech giant Google is seeking government approval to release 32 million mosquitoes into Florida, according to CBS News.
Florida-native grocer Publix announced on Tuesday that it is now offering a new brochure to help customers with their weight-loss journeys.
Indonesia's former head of the National Nutrition Agency has been arrested on corruption charges related to a multibillion-dollar free-meals program.
Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has taken a turn in the White House briefing room.
As Orlando marks 10 years since the Pulse nightclub shooting, trauma surgeons with Orlando Health are reflecting on the blood donors and community support that helped save lives in the hours and days after the tragedy.
Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base.
The World Health Organization reports that five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus in eastern Congo.
Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop.
Postpartum depression is a potentially dangerous condition that can fill a typically joyous time with despair.
The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly.
Donald Trump’s physician says the president is in “excellent health” and is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief after a medical exam Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
President Donald Trump is giving his endorsement to a January study by the Department of Health and Human Services that calls for cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every American child.
The alert covers a specific zone bounded by Fortune Road to the north, Neptune Road to the south, La Terraza Lane to the east, and Heritage Key to the west.
A court in Kenya has suspended a U.S. plan to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to a rare Ebola virus in northeastern Congo.
A man convicted of bludgeoning four men to death with a metal bar as they slept on the New York City streets has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
A provision tucked into the state budget would direct the Department of Children and Families to competitively procure a vendor capable of using machine learning to analyze Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, eligibility determinations.
Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups.
