The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment.

Six years ago, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, marking a significant shift in our daily lives.

When Bexar County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores received a colon cancer diagnosis in late 2024, it came as a shock.

The biggest new restaurant trend is small.

At ABC of Southwest Texas, Desiree Holmes and her team provide support, counseling and community for parents and guardians facing one of life’s hardest moments.

A local youth substance abuse program is treating children as young as 11, and while that age might seem young, the counselors say that’s what’s needed.

A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure.

The FDA is approving a generic drug for a very rare genetic disorder, but not for autism.

A new study in the journal Nature Cities shows that as temperatures rise aboveground, the number of subway riders reporting uncomfortable heat belowground increases.

Hims & Hers Health has agreed to stop selling compound versions of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and other weight-loss drugs, ending for now a patent lawsuit.

Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie, remains missing after nearly 40 days in Arizona.

Affordable housing residents near a federal immigration building in Portland, Oregon, have won a court order limiting federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the facility.

The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is ordering Peru to pay compensation for a woman’s death tied to a forced sterilization program.

A Connecticut city has joined hundreds of others around the country that have installed new firehouse alarm systems that aim to reduce firefighters' stress when calls come in.

When a local veteran was diagnosed with ALS, he and his friends decided to fight in more ways than one. He helped create a new local coalition focused on the ALS-veteran connection.

An 82-year-old Baptist Health System patient says the hospital’s newest hybrid operating room helped save his life after doctors found a dangerous aneurysm.

President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state.

Experts say adults can help children cope with the latest conflict in the Middle East by making time for conversations, validating their feelings and limiting exposure to frightening or inaccurate information.

The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency.

A new CDC analysis shows U.S. maternal deaths keep edging down.

The medical charity Doctors Without Doctors says 26 staff working with the group remain unaccounted for a month after attacks in South Sudan.

Minnesota is suing President Donald Trump’s administration in an attempt to stop it from holding back $243 million in Medicaid spending.

The San Antonio Youth Advisory Council met with top state leaders, seeking their endorsement and expressing concern about a new state law.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student’s approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group.

The White House says a red spot on President Donald Trump’s neck comes from a prescribed skin cream.

Tech companies are pushing new health chatbots, but experts say you still need to talk to your doctor.

New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money.

After her own diagnosis under 50, Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores partnered with University Health for Colon Cancer Awareness Month events urging San Antonians 45 and older and those at higher risk to get screened.

The Pentagon has made a deal with Scouting America that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says would maintain their century-old partnership but refocus the organization away from “woke” policies.

Target will stop selling cereals containing synthetic colors by the end of May.

Federal health data shows Black women are more than three times likely than white women to die around the time of childbirth.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

A Michigan mother is making and collecting soft, yarn toys that are being donated to the neonatal intensive care unit at a Detroit hospital.

The East Tennessee Children's Hospital is now known as Dolly Parton Children's Hospital.

Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped seal-watching tours to help limit the spread of the virus.

Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds.

Cyprus will vaccinate thousands of goats, sheep, hogs and cows to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

Wellness influencer and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of what she calls “reactive sick care” during her confirmation hearing to become the next surgeon general.

The U.S. will wind down health assistance to Zimbabwe after the African country withdrew from talks on a proposed $367 million bilateral funding deal.

Shampoos and conditioners can run from a few dollars to more than $100.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has started checking literacy skills during pediatric visits for kids as young as 3.

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine recommendations for children.

The California program that identifies and treats cases of dangerous infant botulism also comforts families by sending silly cards on their babies' first birthdays.

The United Nations and Somalia's government has said that nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger.

Officials say the deaths of 72 tigers at two tourist parks in northern Thailand are a result of canine distemper and not bird flu.

The VA's veteran suicide report, recently released, compiles 2023 data and shows 6,398 suicides nationwide, including 581 in Texas.

The longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia has resigned from a contributor's role at CBS News after his name surfaced in hundreds of documents released as part of the Epstein files.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is widening a political fault line for the administration ahead of the midterm elections.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a system for approving customized drugs and medical treatments for patients with rare or hard-to-treat diseases.

More than 60 million women in the U.S. live with cardiovascular disease.

The British Academy Film Awards and BBC have apologized Monday for a racial slur that was broadcast during Sunday’s show while two stars of the film “Sinners” were onstage.

Hundreds of people walked, not ran, this weekend to take part in an international festival celebrating one thing: walking.

The Trump administration says it supports a strict Biden-era rule that forces cities to replace most lead water pipes within 10 years.

Cuban officials say a U.S. fuel blockade is pushing Cuba’s health system toward collapse and putting lives at risk.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants.

The fatal nervous system disease known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, killed actor Eric Dane less than a year after he announced his diagnosis.

A ransomware attack has forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all clinics and cancel elective procedures for a second day.

New York City’s largest nursing strike in decades may be on the verge of ending.

The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

Women in Wisconsin will soon be eligible to receive expanded Medicaid coverage for up to a year after giving birth following passage of a measure by the Wisconsin Assembly.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said there is not a measles outbreak after multiple cases were reported in Kendall County and Bandera County.

An aging population, rising rates of diabetes and obesity -- along with limited access to care for some -- continue to fuel the incidence of heart disease. However, the way medicine prevents and treats it has advanced dramatically.

The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies for new drug approvals.

A new study shows hot, dry and windy weather that fuels extreme wildfires has nearly tripled worldwide in 45 years.

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

Vaccine maker Moderna says the Food and Drug Administration will decide whether to approve its new flu shot for older adults after all.

Bernie Sanders has traveled to Los Angeles to kick off a campaign for a proposed “billionaires tax” that has set off an uproar in the Silicon Valley and led to divisions among Democrats.

KSAT Community is partnering with local high school students to host a live televised phone bank in support of Blood Cancer United’s Student Visionaries of the Year (South Texas) campaign.

Bayer has agreed to a proposed $7.25 billion deal to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits that blame Roundup for causing cancer.

The City of Boerne confirmed a positive measles case was identified this month and believes it is linked to an exposure in nearby Bandera County, according to a city news release.

The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans will no longer treat tooth decay with dental fillings containing mercury.

As the definition of autism has widened, there’s a growing push to separate profound autism into its own diagnosis.

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot pull back $600 million in public health grants allocated to four Democratic-led states, for now.

February is American Heart Month, and a local doctor is hoping others will hear his story and get more serious and committed to their own heart health.

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is ending credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles.

Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill that amends a law to recognize a fetus as a human being.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reshaping U.S. health policy as HHS secretary, and doctors say his changes are eroding trust.

Nurses on strike at two major New York City hospital systems have approved new contracts, but ones striking at another system have rejected a proposal to bring an end to the monthlong walkout.

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: whether gene editing might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.

The Thai government is urging coffee chains to cut sugar in drinks by half to combat health issues.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

A young cancer patient at one of the remaining New York City hospitals where nurses are on strike says he misses his regular caregivers.

Inside a 111-year-old house north of downtown San Antonio, fresh paint, new lighting and hand-painted murals are part of a renovation designed to help children who have experienced abuse or neglect feel safe.

Two Palestinian men riding bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike Tuesday, hospital officials said, as deadly violence continued in Gaza despite an October ceasefire.

South Korea plans to increase medical school admissions by over 3,340 students from 2027 to 2031.

Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived.

Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike over staffing levels, workplace safety and other issues.

The need to move a loved one into a nursing home or assisted living facility often comes suddenly — after a fall, a medical crisis or the loss of a caregiver.

One in 11 adults over the age of 60 has a substance abuse disorder, according to 2022 data from the American Psychological Association.

A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states.

Democrats are focusing on health care in the November elections and making it a key issue.

Four people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

U.S. births slightly decreased in 2025.

Losing a limb is like losing an identity for people, especially if you add trauma to that scenario, but thanks to a breakthrough program at UT Health San Antonio, families will now be one step closer to regaining that identity.

The Mexican state of Jalisco has issued a health alert and mandated face masks in schools due to a measles outbreak in the state capital.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors.

The Trump administration has launched TrumpRx, a website it says will help patients buy prescription drugs directly at a discounted rate.