Health

Mideast Wars Gaza Starvation Photo Essay
Samah Matar poses for a photo with her son Yousef, 6, who suffers from malnutrition and cerebral palsy, at a U.N.-run school in Gaza City, Saturday, July 26, 2025. In Gaza, malnutrition is often worsened by preexisting conditions and compounded by illnesses linked to inadequate health care and poor sanitation, largely the result of the ongoing war. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza

Starvation attacks the bodies of these children in Gaza

AUG. 1, 2025

Brazil Capoeira
Ruth Maria Souza Barros, 60, center, attends a capoeira class by a project called “Parkinson's in the swing” for people with Parkinson's disease at the Progress Foundry cultural center in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Health

A martial art that emerged among the enslaved in Brazil is helping Parkinson’s patients

JULY 16, 2025

Mideast Wars Gaza Children
Old photos of 3-year-old Amr al-Hams are displayed on a phone as he lies in a bed with brain damage caused by an Israeli army strike on his family's tent in April, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

Gaza

AP tells the heartbreaking story of Amr, a 3-year-old boy in Gaza, fighting for his life after surviving a strike that killed his mother

JULY 11, 2025

Burkina Faso Eye Doctor
Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso's only ophthalmologist specializing in treating children, checks Isaka Diallo who has lost vision in his left eye at the Sanou Sourou University Hospital in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Elia Borras)

Doctor

Burkina Faso’s only eye doctor for children sees the trauma of both play and conflict

JULY 10, 2025

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

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