HEALTH

Companies that collect data from the digital clues people leave online often know their most sensitive health information _ gleaned from web searches, health apps and location trackers.

Germany's health minister says the government plans to spend another 830 million euros ($872 million) to buy new coronavirus vaccines that will allow the country to deal with a series of possible variants this fall.

Portuguese health authorities have confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa.

North Korea on Wednesday added hundreds of thousands of infections to its growing pandemic caseload.

A new study says pollution of all types is killing 9 million people a year.

A new report finds far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended.

North Korea has reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits as an outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population.

When the U.S. hit 1 million COVID-19 deaths, the news was driven by a government tally derived from death certificates.

The new chief health equity officer at CVS Health hopes she will have more influence in fixing care disparities before they land patients in the hospital.

President Joe Biden's administration has announced new steps to ease the national shortage of baby formula, including allowing more imports from overseas.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak.

Authorities say most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown.

A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient has been sentenced to three years of probation.

The new White House COVID-19 coordinator is issuing a dire warning.

In the 30 years that Ara Mirzaian has worked with orthotics, he has never had a patient like this: A baby giraffe.

Thousands have rallied across Croatia in solidarity with a woman who was denied an abortion despite her fetus having serious health problems.

The California Legislature has voted to increase how much money people can win in medical malpractice lawsuits.

Many parents are hunting for infant formula after a combination of short- and long-term problems hit the biggest U.S. brands.

The European Commission is proposing to help Ukraine move its critical grain supplies to parts of the world at risk of food insecurity.

A new congressional report says that in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep slaughterhouses open even as COVID-19 spread rapidly among workers.

The first factory to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Africa has announced that it has not received enough orders and is planning to stop production within a few weeks, in what a senior World Health Organization official described as a “failure” in efforts to achieve vaccine equity.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa.

China’s leaders are struggling to reverse a deepening economic slump without giving up a “zero-COVID” strategy that shut down Shanghai and other cities.

North Korea has imposed a nationwide lockdown to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic.

U.S. coronavirus cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, especially in the Northeast, to bring back mask recommendations and requirements.

Growing numbers of extremely premature infants are getting lifesaving treatment and surviving.

More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic U.S. record.

A cheat day is essentially a day in which someone abandons their diet or disciplined eating, and eats items that aren’t very healthy.

The European Union will no longer recommend medical masks be worn at airports and on planes starting next week amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions across the bloc.

China on Wednesday defended sticking to its strict “zero-COVID” approach, calling critical remarks from the World Health Organization “irresponsible.”.