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Brazil Medical Cannabis
Maria Aparecida Carvalho speaks during an interview while standing next to the marijuana plants she cultivates for medicinal purposes, in the backyard of her home in Sao Paulo, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil

Brazilian moms are leading the charge to secure CBD for sick kids

AUG. 27, 2024

Be Well-Ultraprocessed Foods
FILE - A customer makes a purchase at a convenience store in Boston in this July 12, 2005 file photo. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, file)

Health

Ultraprocessed foods are everywhere. How bad are they?

AUG. 26, 2024

Bird Flu Lab
Dairy cows stand in a field outside of a milking barn at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Health

A bird flu outbreak is spreading among cows in the US. Scientists are hunting for answers

AUG. 23, 2024

Baby Evacuated From Gaza
In this Aug. 14, 2024 photo, ten-month-old Palestinian infant Mostafa Qadoura, who has already lost his eye and his immediate family to the horrors of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, poses at the New Administrative Capital Hospital, just outside Cairo, Egypt. Mostafa was among the 28 babies, most of whom were born premature, who were evacuated from the then-besieged Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and transported to Egypt late last year. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Displaced people

A baby evacuated from Gaza lost an eye and most of his family in the war

AUG. 23, 2024

Africa Mpox Explainer
FILE - Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on, Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

COVID-19

A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and what is the WHO doing?

AUG. 15, 2024

Emergency Rooms Pregnancy
Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who is filing a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Abortion

Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law

AUG. 12, 2024

Russia Ukraine War Palestinian Doctor
Alya Gali, a Gaza Strip-born doctor, looks at debris two weeks after a missile killed nine as it hit a private clinic where he has worked for most of his professional life in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 22, 2024. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 catapulted Gali’s life into the chaos of constant air raids and missile attacks. Israel’s war on Hamas turned his hometown into a hellscape, uprooting his family and killing two of his relatives. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Health

From Gaza to Kyiv, a Palestinian doctor lives between two wars

AUG. 2, 2024

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Skin Diseases
Displaced child Sham al-Hessi, center, who suffers from skin disease, is covered with skin cream as she poses for a picture, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024. Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana )

Health

Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza’s tent camps

JULY 30, 2024

Jennifer Wexton
Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., uses an AI program on her iPad at her home in Leesburg, Va., Friday, July 19, 2024. A rare neurological disease robbed Wexton of her ability to speak clearly. But with the help of a powerful artificial intelligence program, the Virginia Democrat will use a clone of her voice to deliver what is believed to be the first speech on the House floor ever given via a voice cloned by artificial intelligence, thrusting Wexton into a broader debate about over artificial intelligence. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Health

A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor.

JULY 25, 2024

Puerto Rico Rapper Doctor
Dr. Pedro Juan Vázquez, better known by his stage name PJ Sin Suela, attends to a patient in Loiza, Puerto Rico, Saturday, May 25, 2024. The 34-year-old doctor travels from the San Juan capital to the island’s southern and central regions to treat communities struggling in the aftermath of hurricanes. After hanging up his doctor’s scrubs, Vázquez spends his time producing new music that relays the island’s issues. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Health

As doctors leave Puerto Rico in droves, a rapper tries to fill the gaps

JULY 23, 2024

Jon Stewart
FILE - Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks. They got sick from staying at at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, or K2, a base contaminated with enriched uranium. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Health

Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

JULY 23, 2024

Be Well-Too Many Pills
FILE - Prescription drugs are seen in a glass flask at a state laboratory in Taylorsville, Utah, on July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Health

Too many pills? How to talk to your doctor about reviewing what’s needed

JULY 22, 2024

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