Health

Liberia US Aid Cuts
Roseline Phay, 32, stands with her daughter Pauline outside their home in Bong County, Liberia, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

Health

As US abruptly ends support, Liberia faces empty health clinics and unplanned pregnancies

JULY 8, 2025

Global Vaccinated Children
FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

COVID-19

Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases

JUNE 24, 2025

Abortion
FILE - Abortion-rights activists holds a signs as they protest outside of the Supreme Court during a rally on March 26, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Abortion

The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth prescriptions, report finds

JUNE 23, 2025

Argentina Waiting For Treatment
A woman leans on a counter while waiting to receive free medicine at the Rodolfo Rossi Hospital in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, May 8, 2025. According to experts, government workers and advocates, President Javier Milei's cutbacks have overwhelmed the nation’s public hospitals, upended vaccination efforts and taken a toll on the country’s poor and unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina

Argentines reel from health care cutbacks as President Milei’s state overhaul mirrors Trump’s

JUNE 18, 2025

Trump Surgeon General Takeaways
FILE - Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025.  (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Health

Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales

JUNE 13, 2025

RFK Jr. Autism
Eileen Lamb, from left, who was diagnosed with autism as an adult, watches over her children, Charlie Lamb and Jude, right, who also have autism, and daughter Billie, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Autism

RFK Jr. says autism ‘destroys’ families. Here’s what those families want you to know

JUNE 13, 2025

Autism Swimming
In this handout photo provided by Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, swim instructors work with students during an autism-specific swim class at Small Fish Big Fish, Tuesday, April 1, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Ben Rusnak /Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County via AP)

Health

For kids with autism, swim classes can be lifesaving

MAY 21, 2025

Hanna seeks to her husband Victor Voitenko, injured in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy on April 13, at a hospital in Sumy, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Hanna seeks to her husband Victor Voitenko, injured in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy on April 13, at a hospital in Sumy, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Health

In the Ukrainian city of Sumy, life goes on despite the constant threat of attack

APRIL 15, 2025

Laughing Gas-FDA Warning
FILE - A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

COVID-19

AP breaks news of FDA tobacco chief’s removal

APRIL 11, 2025

FILE - A measles sign is seen at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
FILE - A measles sign is seen at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)

COVID-19

The US has three measles-related deaths and hundreds of cases. Here’s what to know

APRIL 8, 2025

FILE - Former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a hearing, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)
FILE - Former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a hearing, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)

Health

Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.

APRIL 7, 2025

This photo provided by researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley shows Ann, a participant in a study on speech neuroprostheses, in California in 2023. (Noah Berger/UCSF, UC Berkeley via AP)
This photo provided by researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley shows Ann, a participant in a study on speech neuroprostheses, in California in 2023. (Noah Berger/UCSF, UC Berkeley via AP)

Health

A stroke survivor speaks again with the help of an experimental brain-computer implant

APRIL 1, 2025

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