Medicine

Pancreatic Cancer Drug
FILE - This undated microscope image from USC via the NIH shows pancreatic cancer cells, nuclei in blue, growing as a sphere encased in membranes, red. (Min Yu/Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, File)

Medicine

Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer

MAY 31, 2026

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)

Healthcare

Moderna says the FDA will consider its new flu shot after resolving a public dispute

FEB. 18, 2026

This photo combo shows 2024 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun, American molecular biologist, left, and Victor Ambros, professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
This photo combo shows 2024 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun, American molecular biologist, left, and Victor Ambros, professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Medicine

Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA

OCT. 9, 2024

Be Well-Too Many Pills
FILE - Prescription drugs are seen in a glass flask at a state laboratory in Taylorsville, Utah, on July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Health

Too many pills? How to talk to your doctor about reviewing what’s needed

JULY 22, 2024

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Using a tablet screen, Rupesh Kotiya, left, communicates with his son Ronan, 11, who holds a medical suction tube at their home in Plano, Texas, April 10, 2022. Ronan helps care for his father who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Millions of Americans with serious health problems depend on children ages 18 and younger to provide some or all of their care at home. An exact number is hard to pin down, but researchers think millions of children are involved in caregiving in the U.S. (AP Photo / LM Otero)

ALS

Intimate AP package explores the burdens borne by young children providing essential care for parents

JUNE 10, 2022

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Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, looks in the mirror and turns off her camera in Mariupol, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. Using a body camera, she recorded her team's frantic efforts to bring people back from the brink of death. (Yuliia Paievska via AP)

Fatalities

Ukrainian medic gives AP exclusive bodycam video revealing the tragedy of Mariupol

MAY 27, 2022

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This March 2022 photo provided by Morgan Fabry poses for a photo with her daughter in Chicago, in a March 2022 photo provided by Fabry. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life by major medical entities, giving rise to the saying “breast is best.” But breastfeeding doesn’t work for everyone, leading Fabry to say, “The bottom line is fed is best.” (Morgan Fabry via AP)

Baby formula

Actually, ‘Fed is best.’ AP takes a closer look at the issue of breastfeeding amid formula shortage

MAY 27, 2022

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FILE – Takeshi Kasai, World Health Organization regional director for Western Pacific, addresses the media at an annual session in Manila, Philippines, Oct. 7, 2019. AP reporting has revealed that dozens of current and former staffers have accused Kasai of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic in the region. Kasai denies the charges. (AP Photo / Bullit Marquez, File)

Abusive behavior

Exclusive and explosive: WHO leader in Western Pacific accused of racism and abuse

FEB. 4, 2022

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Coronavirus

As cases peak, AP duo embeds in a French ICU for a 24-hours in the battle against COVID-19

NOV. 30, 2020

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Coronavirus

As families respond to the crisis, AP reveals desperate state of Venezuelan COVID treatment

NOV. 6, 2020

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Drug addiction

AP breaks news on the opioid epidemic and Purdue Pharma, with focus on victims

OCT. 30, 2020

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Coronavirus

From the front line to the homefront, behind the scenes with COVID nurses

AUG. 28, 2020

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