Health

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

Israel Palestinians Doctors Killed
This handout photo taken on May 12, 2023 shows Dr. Adam Hamawy, left, a former U.S. Army combat plastic surgeon who volunteered in Gaza in May and Dr. Mohammed Tahir, a British surgeon, performing surgery on mangled hand from a blast injury at the European General Hospital, in Khan Younis, Gaza. (Adam Hamawy via AP)

Fatalities

As Gaza’s doctors struggle to save lives, many lose their own in Israeli airstrikes

JULY 17, 2024

Mexico Clinic Haitians
Dr. Sarahí Hernández Pacheco attends to Haitian Bellantta Lubin, at the Bassuary medical clinic in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, east of Mexico City, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Hernández Pacheco has turned her family-run clinic into a safe haven for Haitian migrants whether they are planning to stay in Mexico or continue the journey north toward the U.S. (AP Photo/Mariana Martínez Barba)

Health

With Haitian migration growing, a Mexico City family of doctors is helping out

JULY 17, 2024

Paris Seine Water Quality
FILE - People sit along the Seine River with stands installed on its banks, July 4, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Climate

Will the Seine be clean enough by the Olympics? Not even the experts know yet

JULY 16, 2024

Be Well-Medical Scans
This photo provided by Prenuvo in July 2024 shows an MRI scanner. Magnetic resonance imaging uses magnetic fields to produce detailed images of organs, bones and other structures inside the body. Unlike many other types of scans, MRIs don't use radiation. (Prenuvo via AP)

Health

Celebrities are getting $2,000 MRI scans to learn about their health. Should you?

JULY 15, 2024

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