New estimates show road deaths are declining in the U.S. and globally.

Federal health officials have remained focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak despite inaccurate test results reported over the weekend.

Infants, toddlers and young children need outdoor activity to build strong bodies and minds, but they also require extra care in the heat.

Congo's health ministry says at least 930 people have died in the country's Ebola outbreak.

When the air is smoky from burning wildfires, health experts say to stay indoors.

Health workers in northern Nigeria say more children are relapsing into malnutrition and cite knock-on effects from the war in the Middle East.

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. The California-based company said products with the potential to be contaminated with the diarrhea-causing parasite were shipped to 27 states including Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

Authorities report at least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers during Congo's Ebola outbreak.

Utah revoked another campus license on Friday for the boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager.

The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead.

Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are muddling through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires in Minnesota and Canada.

Big U.S. restaurant chains don’t get linked to foodborne illness outbreaks often.

Wildfire smoke, which is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms, attacks nearly every system in the body.

Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served by Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of the widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol.

Heavy smoke from wildfires is darkening skies from the U.S. Midwest to the East Coast.

Health officials serving under President Donald Trump want to make it easier for men to get a prescription for testosterone.

The agent for Sam Neill says the actor died from pneumonia.

The twice-yearly changing of the clocks could be a thing of the past if legislation currently in Congress that calls for permanent daylight time makes it through.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops.

The Trump administration’s latest nominee to lead the nation’ top public health agency drew frustrated reactions from some U.S. senators when they pressed her on whether she would protect the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from political meddling.

Midwifery care can look very different depending on a provider’s training, credentials and practice setting.

Ebola cases in Congo have reached 2,011, with 754 deaths, according to government data.

France's National Assembly has given final approval to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication.

Thousands of visitors have been told to evacuate a remote Minnesota wilderness area because of wildfires sending heavy smoke across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.

People across the country, especially in San Antonio, are dying from a disease they don’t know they have until it’s too late.

Health officials say a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Manhattan’s Upper East Side now counts 60 cases, but new diagnoses are slowing.

A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems that disproportionately targeted those on medical or family leave for layoffs.

Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, with 2026 already the nation's worst year for reported cases.

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer's disease in a markedly different way than current treatments — by lowering the brain's production of a protein called tau.

The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief has warned that most Ebola cases in eastern Congo come from unknown transmission chains.

The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is renewing focus on the country’s aging lawmakers.

Another round of sweltering heat is in store for much of the U.S. this week.

The aortic tear that likely caused the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is a medical emergency that can rapidly kill.

Dozens of workers at an Ebola treatment center in northeast Congo have gone on strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses.

The Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease amid the city’s latest outbreak.

Two new community hospitals are set to open in the first half of 2027, and neighbors are thrilled to see it. More money was just added to the project to expand the bed numbers before the project even finishes.

Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.

As temperatures continue to climb across South Central Texas and summer heat settles in, health experts are reminding residents that certain medications can make it more difficult for the body to stay cool, potentially increasing your risk for heat-related illnesses.

State officials detected West Nile virus in two mosquito samples collected this week from different sites near San Marcos.

Health experts advise washing hands and produce amid a significant outbreak of a parasitic infection in Michigan, affecting more than 1,500 people.

After Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities his agency would pursue.

Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in much of Asia.

As many head outdoors, eye care experts are reminding people that dark lenses alone do not guarantee protection from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays.

New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of Congo, according to the government.

New World screwworm cases in dogs in Texas and New Mexico are prompting warnings from veterinarians and humane societies that pet owners need to remain vigilant to protect their animals.

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea.

A new analysis of early rate filings shows that Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing another year of double-digit premium increases.

Healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs to protest delays in their payments.

Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland had a brain abnormality linked to repeated head trauma when he killed himself after a high-speed chase with police in November 2025.

Bexar County is in a “hot zone” for rabies cases in Texas this year, according to a map from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

When it comes to losing weight, it turns out the simple math of counting calories doesn’t always add up.

A parasite is causing hundreds of cases of serious stomach and intestinal illness across several states, including Texas, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New federal data reveals the first 50-state look at a steep drop in Affordable Care Act enrollment after enhanced subsidies expired in January.

Heavy rain and flooding are breaking a heat wave that gripped New York City and much of the Northeast last week.

An AI program in the state of Utah has sparked a vigorous debate about the role of the technology in health care.

As Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fifth year, a group of Ukrainian amateur climbers is trying to build something new: a climbing culture inspired by the sense of community surrounding California’s Yosemite National Park.

Doctors and others are sounding an alarm: More U.S. children have been drowning in recent years.

Despite an earlier statement that a parvovirus outbreak at the Guadalupe County Animal Shelter led to the euthanasia of more than 40 dogs, GCSO Sheriff Joshua Ray now says “there was no outbreak at their facility and no animals were euthanized.”

Irisleydis Tristá, a cancer patient in Cuba, has been unable to get a crucial CT scan for seven months because the machine at Havana’s leading hospital is broken.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to keep hospitals from marking up discounted drugs for Medicare patients.

New Jersey is set to charge companies whose workers have Medicaid health coverage.

Former NFL star Chris Johnson is bringing back the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness of ALS as he fights the fatal nervous system disease.

After a U.S. Air Force trainee from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland died at Brooke Army Medical Center, here’s what we know about the flu outbreak lawmakers are connecting to the trainee’s death.

Healthcare providers say one of the most important preparations that should happen long before the first day of class is scheduling your child’s annual checkup, vaccinations and other school-related health appointments.

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were untreated wounds and infectious diseases.

The federal government has launched a new program to make GLP-1 weight loss drugs more affordable for older Americans.

Hospitals in the Paris region are urgently upgrading their defenses against heat waves.

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities.

California is making food labels less confusing by banning "sell by" dates.

Three members of congress, including U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, are calling for an investigation into the death of a U.S. Air Force trainee from Lackland Air Force Base.

The Trump administration has frozen federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Heat can be dangerous, but health experts say there are ways to manage the threat.

Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country.

Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy and several other fields will be eligible for higher student loan limits after a federal judge blocked part of a Trump administration rule that held them to lower caps.

Arkansas is moving forward with a ban on allowing government food aid to be used for candy and soda.

The Food and Drug Administration is meeting next month to consider easing restrictions on several peptides, a group of unapproved drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The agency posted meeting materials online Monday.

Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its interpretation of new Medicaid work requirements.

New Mexico's governor says the state could seek billions in civil damages after DEA agents allowed fentanyl shipments into communities.

A judge has delayed Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A heat wave is gripping the Midwest and is shifting eastward, causing summer camps and outdoor activities to be canceled or delayed.

A record-breaking heat wave has overwhelmed mortuaries in Paris, leaving funeral directors struggling to find space for bodies.

New federal figures show that about 3 million fewer people had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year.

Legislators across the U.S. are trying to lower prescription costs by reining in big companies that handle drug coverage for health insurers.

New Mexico's attorney general has opened a criminal investigation into claims that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets.

A judge has temporarily ordered Tennessee not to give immigration authorities information about hundreds of sick and disabled immigrant children who are enrolled in a healthcare assistance program.

Two people are currently receiving treatment after they were bitten by a rabid fox late last week, according to the Atascosa County Animal Control Department.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling for a criminal investigation into whether federal authorities broke state law by allowing fentanyl pills to reach the streets.

The number of influenza cases at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland is on the rise, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said in a news release Wednesday.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from executing subpoenas in a criminal probe that sought transgender care records for patients treated at New York hospitals.

Rip currents are one of the coast’s greatest dangers and account for the most beach rescues every year.

A positive case of Ebola virus has been identified in France.

A judge has ruled that the U.S. government cannot stop people enrolled in the biggest food aid program from using benefits to buy candy and soda.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against 455 people as part of a two-week healthcare fraud crackdown that officials say involved more than $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to insurers.

Authorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths.

Three new cases of New World Screwworm were detected within 24 hours, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday, bringing the total detections domestically up to 15.

France is in the grips of a severe heat wave, leading to canceled trains, concerts and sports events.

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a state of emergency to empower the military to remove road blockades.

Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks in almost every county.

Mourners in eastern Congo have gathered to bury a 6-month-old girl who died from Ebola earlier this week.