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.
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.
Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale has ordered the suspension of the construction of an Ebola quarantine center for Americans after he was held in contempt by a court that had halted the project.
The last eight Americans who endured 42 days in a specialized hospital quarantine unit after exposure to an unusual hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that killed three people have left the Nebraska facility.
Authorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths.
A woman in South Africa found opportunity in a COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 when she used the suspension of her studies at an agricultural college to plant her own vineyard at her family home.
France is in the grips of a severe heat wave, leading to canceled trains, concerts and sports events.
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.
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.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held.
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.
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.
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-plus 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.
Authorities have raced to slow the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo with strict measures, including by limiting public gatherings and enforcing social distancing.
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 resident killed in a fire at an unregistered nursing home in western Sri Lanka had been chained and another was untied and saved, a worker said.
In Congo, the battle against the rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola has been complicated by skepticism, attacks on health workers and misinformation.
You don’t have to be a medical professional to save a life. One quick action — CPR or a defibrillator — can mean the difference between a family dinner next week and a phone call no one wants to receive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
