Health

New Flu Vaccine
FILE - A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in Cambridge, Mass., May 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)prnto

FDA

FDA panel backs first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology

JUNE 18, 2026

FTC Transgender Health Group
FILE - The official seal of the Federal Trade Commission is seen on an office building in Washington, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Health

Federal Trade Commission sues leading transgender health group

JUNE 17, 2026

Be Well Tick Allergy
This photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows an adult female lone star tick crawling on a blade of grass in 2023. (Lauren Bishop/CDC via AP)

Health

What to know about alpha-gal syndrome, the life-threatening meat allergy caused by tick bites

JUNE 17, 2026

Infant Mortality
FILE - The toes of a baby peek out of a blanket at a hospital in McAllen, Texas, July, 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Health

The US infant mortality rate fell to an all-time low, though it still trails other similar nations

JUNE 16, 2026

Netherlands Hantavirus Ship
The MV Hondius cruise ship arrives at the Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Hantavirus

US puts up $750K to evacuate an American who was aboard hantavirus cruise ship from remote island

JUNE 11, 2026

Congo Ebola Wedding
A newly married couple walks down the aisle at their wedding amid an Ebola outbreak in Ituri Province in Bunia, Congo, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa

How the Ebola outbreak is changing weddings in Congo

JUNE 8, 2026

Immigration Custody Medical Neglect
Maria Jose Gonzalez holds a photo of her husband, Jose-Antonio Segismundo, who was detained for six months at "Alligator Alcatraz," April 16, 2026, in Wimauma, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Health

From festering infections to untreated cancer, ICE detainees across the US describe medical neglect

JUNE 2, 2026

APTOPIX Congo Ebola
A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Africa

AP’s Goma team delivers haunting all-formats coverage of Ebola outbreak in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places

MAY 29, 2026

Be Well-Dancing and Aging
Gail Kowalski, from left, Suzy Rhoades, Carol Ross and Cindy Soffrin, of The Rodeo City Wreckettes, a tap and jazz dance group for older women, practice on Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Tucson, Ariz. (Anita Snow via AP)

Dance

You should be dancing, yeah. Moving to music offers all kinds of benefits as you age

MAY 27, 2026

American Objects The Pill
FILE - A birth control pill container is designed to look like a woman's makeup compact for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., of Raritan, N.J., May 28, 1999. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)

Birth control

By changing women’s lives, the pill changed the nation

MAY 12, 2026

HIV Cell Therapy
Dr. Steven Deeks at the UCSF Division of HIV Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine on May 5, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP photo/Haven Daley)

Health

Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV

MAY 12, 2026

Medicaid New York
FILE - Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks during a news conference on efforts to combat fraud, in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Feb. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner, File)

Accountability reporting

Dogged reporting gives AP an exclusive edge on Medicaid fraud claims

APRIL 17, 2026

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