Health

Be Well-Cold Water Immersion
FILE - Revelers enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, file)

Health

Cold-water immersion may offer health benefits — and also presents risks

OCT. 6, 2025

Trump
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listen. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Autism

Comprehensive AP reporting combats misinformation surrounding Trump’s autism claims

OCT. 3, 2025

Be Well-Kick-Starting Fitness
FILE - A man runs on a small road in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, before sunrise on Sept. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Health

One path to kick-starting a healthier lifestyle: Start small

SEPT. 24, 2025

APTOPIX Aging Africa Photo Essay
Deziranta Namisango, second from left, who has dementia, sits on a motorcycle taxi as Christine Nababi, 80, is helped onto the seat by NGO field officer, Elizabeth Nagawa, as they leave their biweekly fellowship gathering for seniors at a church in Mukono, Uganda, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Africa

In Uganda, AP explores the experience of aging on a continent where it’s unusual to be old

SEPT. 12, 2025

Pig Kidney Transplant
In this photo provided by Mass General Brigham, doctors perform a xenotransplant, June 14, 2025 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. (Sarah Evans/Mass General Brigham via AP)

Health

Another New Hampshire man gets a pig kidney as transplant trials are poised to start

SEPT. 8, 2025

APTOPIX Mideast Wars Gaza Hunger
Islam Qudeih shows her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, to journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Doctors said Shamm may have a genetic disorder that affects muscle and bone development, but there is no way to test for it in Gaza. On Tuesday, August 12, her family was granted permission to travel to a hospital in Italy. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

Famine

Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

AUG. 22, 2025

Be Well-Vibrio Illnesses
This photo provided by Karrianne Stewart shows her husband, Bernie Stewart, in a coma at a hospital in Pensacola, Fla., shortly after the start of an August 2019 Vibrio infection. (Karrianne Stewart via AP)

Health

How to protect yourself from Vibrio vulnificus, the bacteria found in some coastal waters

AUG. 20, 2025

Vaccination Rates
FILE - Vials of the measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine are displayed in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

COVID-19

Texas declares measles outbreak over

AUG. 18, 2025

POLIO-FALLAS DE ERRADICACIÓN
Un trabajador médico administra la vacuna contra la polio a un niño, el 21 de abril de 2025, en Karachi, Pakistán. (AP Foto/Fareed Khan, Archivo)

Afghanistan

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

AUG. 15, 2025

Mobile Homes Water Problems
Gerardo Sanchez, an outreach coordinator with the immigrant and farmworker justice group TODEC, helps deliver bottled water to mobile home residents in Oasis, Calif., Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Climate

For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given

AUG. 8, 2025

Ultraprocessed Foods
FILE - Potato chips are displayed at a store in New York, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

Health

Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, CDC report says

AUG. 7, 2025

Wildfires-Health Effects
FILE - Damage from wildfires is seen in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 11, 2023 . (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Fatalities

New studies tie unrecognized deaths and health problems to Maui and LA wildfires

AUG. 6, 2025

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