Health

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

Blue Jays Giants Baseball
Toronto Blue Jays' Bo Bichette walks to the dugout after striking out against the San Francisco Giants during the sixth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Baseball

MLB batting average near half-century low and velocity at all-time high

JULY 15, 2024

Velocity Training Baseball
FILE - Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Tayler Saucedo uses a weighted ball to warm up in the bullpen before a spring training baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, March 6, 2024, in Surprise, Ariz. Velocity training is the rage in baseball from the youth levels up through the majors. Players go through specialized programs – often using series of progressively weighted baseballs – in the hopes of speeding up their bodies and arms, pushing them to the limits of what might be possible for their age and ability. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Athletes

Velocity training has pushed pitchers to their limits. Baseball is grappling with the injury risks

JULY 12, 2024

Extreme Heat Surface Burns
Ron Falk, 62, speaks of losing his leg, Tuesday, June 25, 2024 in Phoenix. Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on the searing asphalt outside a convenience store where he stopped for a cold soda during a blistering heat wave. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Arizona

Blazing hot surfaces are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries in the urban desert Southwest

JULY 3, 2024

Extreme Heat Homeless Health Care
Patients gather outside one of the five Circle The City mobile clinics stationed outside a soup kitchen for homeless people, Thursday, May 30, 2024 in Phoenix. Based in the hottest big metro in America, Circle the City is taking measures to protect patients from life-threatening heat illness as temperatures hit new highs. Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the record 645 heat-related deaths last year in Arizona's Maricopa County, which encompasses metro Phoenix.(AP Photo/Matt York)

Extreme weather

Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat

JULY 1, 2024

HIV-Latinos
Fernando Hermida, who has moved several times to access HIV treatment, stands for a portrait in Charlotte, N.C., on May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)

Health

Young gay Latinos see a rising share of new HIV cases, leading to a call for targeted funding

JUNE 24, 2024

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Craig Jones posa para una fotografía frente a la farmacia Basin el miércoles 21 de febrero de 2024, en Basin, Wyoming. Es el punto clave de acceso a servicios médicos para el poblado de unos 1.300 habitantes y el área circundante. (AP Foto/Mike Clark)

Health

AP documents gaps in pharmacy access in the U.S. with exclusive dataset and interactive map

JUNE 14, 2024

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A pregnant woman stands for a portrait in Dallas, May 18, 2023. Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Abortion

AP exclusive details how ERs are refusing to treat pregnant women after Roe v. Wade was overturned

APRIL 26, 2024

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Addiction

Keen eye, sharp beat work spin exclusive enterprise off routine Legislative coverage

FEB. 23, 2024

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