Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread.

For Texans planning to grow their family, where they live could have a major impact on pregnancy, childbirth costs and access to care.

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.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into a prominent energy drink company over concerns that it may be marketing its products to children and teenagers despite containing high levels of caffeine.

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.

In a city known for sweltering summers, sticky humidity and months of triple-digit heat indexes, a new report suggests many Houstonians may not be drinking enough water to keep up.

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.

The World Health Organization says Congo's Ebola outbreak had a head start, but testing is improving.

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

Businessman Zach Lahn's win in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary over President Donald Trump's pick is a rare electoral setback for Trump.

Indonesia's former head of the National Nutrition Agency has been arrested on corruption charges related to a multi-billion-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.

A few simple skills can make a big difference. CPR and Safety Lady, Gail Gould, shares CPR and AED basics to help you feel more confident and prepared in an emergency.

The report found that nearly 11% of Texas children under the age of 6 lacked health insurance in 2024 — a dramatic increase from 7.9% just two years earlier. Researchers say that jump translates to more than 73,000 additional uninsured children across the state.

Starting June 1, 2026, all newborns in Texas will be screened for an additional rare genetic disorder as part of the state’s newborn screening program.

As summer settles into Southeast Texas and hurricane season gets underway, many Houstonians are reaching for tissues, allergy medicine and eye drops.

A volunteer for the U.N. food agency is providing crucial support In the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility.

Five American cruise ship passengers exposed to hantavirus are leaving a Nebraska quarantine facility.

If it feels like mosquitoes always choose you over everyone else at the backyard barbecue, you’re not imagining it. As Houston enters peak mosquito season, many residents are swatting away more bites than ever. But scientists say mosquitoes don’t randomly pick their targets. Certain people naturally give off signals that make them far more attractive to the blood-sucking insects.

Congo has confirmed at least 282 Ebola cases in its growing outbreak.

Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base.

New research shows a novel pill is helping people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer.

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.

For many in Congo and elsewhere in Central and West Africa, there is no shame in craving wild meat, a key part of the culture.

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 cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year.

The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an Ebola outbreak.

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.

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.

Music recorded in 432 hertz is taking off on social media platforms and music streaming services.

New research suggests a first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B may let some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver virus.

The proportion of Americans without health insurance held steady at around 8% of the population in 2025, according to new findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

George Bush Intercontinental Airport has been designated as one of three U.S. entry points for travelers arriving from countries affected by an Ebola outbreak, as Houston prepares to host World Cup matches next month.

Houston city leaders sought to calm public concern after federal officials designated George Bush Intercontinental Airport as one of three U.S. entry points for American travelers returning from regions affected by the latest Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.

Uganda has ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected Ebola cases are surging.

There is one handwashing station and one infrared thermometer to fight the Ebola epidemic in this camp for 10,000 displaced people in Bunia, a city at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo.

A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port.

Medical professionals say that moving to music is a great way for older adults to stay healthier as they age.

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

President Donald Trump has wrapped up a three-hour visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House describes as preventive medical and dental exams.

With just weeks to go before Houston hosts its first FIFA World Cup match, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo addressed growing public concerns Monday over Ebola cases connected to central Africa and what that could mean for the region during the international event.

Health workers responding to a rapidly spreading outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo face two threats.

Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven.

A local hospital official says that angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of an outbreak in eastern Congo, demanding the bodies of their relatives.

Angry residents in eastern Congo have attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center treating Ebola patients.

Pope Leo XIV has visited families near Naples affected by illegal toxic dumping linked to the mafia.

Bundibugyo is the somewhat easy-to-mispronounce name of a species of Ebola.

The Associated Press has learned that officials at the Food and Drug Administration were blindsided by a recent policy change allowing more electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches to hit the U.S. market.

Authorities in northeastern Congo have banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more than 50 people to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak.

An advocacy group is suing President Donald Trump's administration over its decision to reinstate a near-ban on abortions for veterans and their family members who depend on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare.

New York City's iconic pizzerias and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive.

Head spas, which offer scalp and face massages, are gaining popularity in the U.S. Hundreds of locations, especially in California and New York, now offer these services.

The Department of Health and Human Services is boosting its use of artificial intelligence to monitor audits from federal grant recipients.

People have set fire to an Ebola treatment center in one of the towns at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo as fear and anger grows over a health crisis authorities and aid agencies are struggling to contain.

The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care like mammograms for millions of Americans.

New Mexico authorities say three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were assessed for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a rural home for a suspected drug overdose.

Fountain Life, a company focused on preventive and precision healthcare, has opened its fifth location in Houston, Texas, bringing with it full-body MRI scanning, advanced cardiac imaging and AI-powered health analytics to help members get ahead of serious illness before symptoms ever appear. The mission of Fountain Life is deeply personal for its Chief Medical Officer, who spent 25 years at Mayo Clinic before joining the organization. Dr. Dawn Mussallem shares how her own health crisis led her to want to help people prevent serious illness long before symptoms begin and takes us on a tour of Fountain Life's newest location in the Galleria-area.

Congo’s soccer team has canceled a three-day World Cup preparation training camp and a planned farewell to fans in the capital Kinshasa because of an outbreak of Ebola in the east of the country.

Healthcare workers in eastern Congo say they are underprotected and undertrained as a rare Ebola virus spreads rapidly in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places.

The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered the state's largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors.

Jell-O is getting a line of products made without synthetic colors or artificial sweeteners to meet increasing consumer demand for natural ingredients.

Vice President JD Vance’s decision to extend his fight against Medicaid fraud beyond Democratic states to his red home state of Ohio has set off a scramble among the state’s Republicans — including his close ally Vivek Ramaswamy, the party’s nominee for governor.

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia.

Nationwide enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplace could drop by nearly 5 million people this year.

It's spring cleaning season, and for some people that means drudgery or anxiety.

The World Health Organization director-general has expressed concern over the rapid spread of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo.

A wildfire sparked by the fatal crash of a small medical plane in New Mexico has triggered evacuations for a rural area north of the Capitan Mountains and closures in the Lincoln National Forest.

President Donald Trump has announced an expansion of his discounted-drug website, TrumpRx.

A gun and notebook that prosecutors say link Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson can be used as evidence at his murder trial.

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies that object to negotiating Medicare drug prices with the federal government.

Congo will open three treatment centers for the Ebola virus in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak that has killed nearly 120 people.

A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection.

The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern.

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises.

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

At least 80 people have died in Congo’s new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province.

A Kansas judge has protected access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors as the nation’s largest children’s hospital moved to restrict such care in Texa and buckled under pressure from the Trump administration.

Africa’s top public health body confirms a new Ebola outbreak in Congo's Ituri province.

Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks.

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.

A new study from researchers at Texas A&M University suggests coffee may do more than give people a morning energy boost, it could help slow aging and protect against chronic disease.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital.

The coronavirus pandemic's impact lingers, influencing our lives in both obvious and subtle ways.

Passengers unaffected by an illness outbreak on a British cruise ship have been allowed to disembark in the French port city of Bordeaux.

Vice President JD Vance is highlighting the Trump administration’s efforts to combat fraud in a visit to Maine ahead of the state’s primary elections for several high-profile races.

An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers who became sick on board.

The Trump administration is expanding its fraud-busting initiative in federal health programs.

About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year.

A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care.

Oceanwide Expeditions says it expects to know by the end of the week if the MV Hondius cruise ship will keep to its schedule after a hantavirus outbreak.