Health

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

CPAC Republicans
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during a fireside chat with CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos)

FDA

FDA to weigh easing limits on unproven peptides favored by RFK Jr. and other MAHA figures

APRIL 15, 2026

Be Well-Hearing Aids
Sara Mearns, principal dancer at New York City Ballet, warms up on March 17, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Ballet

Hearing aids can seem like a big step. This NYC Ballet principal dancer doesn’t regret taking it

APRIL 12, 2026

CPAC Republicans
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks during a fireside chat with CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Saturday, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos)

Health

RFK Jr is launching a podcast to expose ‘lies’ that have made Americans sick

APRIL 8, 2026

BeWell GLP-1s Healthy Habits
FILE - Runners make their way through Brooklyn during the New York City Marathon, Nov. 3, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

Health

As demand for GLP-1 pills and shots surges, healthy habits are still key

MARCH 23, 2026

Trump Sewage Leak Infrastructure
Workers build a cofferdam to stop the flow of raw sewage into the Potomac River after a massive sewage pipe rupture in Glen Echo, Md., Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Envirnoment

Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of US infrastructure problems

MARCH 20, 2026

Be-Well-Stair Climbing
FILE - Participants make make their way up 86 flights of stairs during the 35th Annual Empire State Building Run-Up in New York, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Health

Stair climbers love their exercise, even when security guards act like they’re up to something

MARCH 16, 2026

CDC Vaccine Committee
FILE - Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, with the FDA, listens during a meeting of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices at the CDC, June 25, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

FDA

Accountability reporting gets inside secretive FDA deliberations on antidepressants

MARCH 13, 2026

Be Well-Dementia Risk
FILE - A section of a preserved human brain on display at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2003. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)

Health

Challenging your brain helps keep it healthy. Here’s how to do it

MARCH 9, 2026

Profound Autism
Ronan Murphy hugs his mother, Andrea, while looking at the snow falling outside their home in Ayer, Mass., on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Autism

AP cuts through confusion and misinformation about autism with focus on profound needs

FEB. 20, 2026

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