South Texas Blood & Tissue is one of the largest blood suppliers in the region, serving more than 100 hospitals and healthcare providers.

UT Health San Antonio is the first hospital in Texas to offer patients a new, non-opioid drug as a “first-line treatment for post-surgical pain.”

An unusual request from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about Cuban medical brigades is roiling countries in the Caribbean and the Americas.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

The California Legislature approves a proposal Friday to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants without legal status.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill plans to send a cease and desist letter to CVS for mass text messages sent to customers lobbying against legislation and is opening an investigation into whether the pharmaceutical giant improperly used customers’ personal information.

Ananda Lewis, the former MTV and BET host who became a beloved television personality in the 1990s with her warmth and authenticity, has died.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department for allegedly sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion.

Health officials want you to think twice before buying brightly colored energy shots and supplements often sold at gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops.

A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education.

Every month, thousands of women evade abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to send them pregnancy-ending drugs through the mail.

Practicing and encouraging gratitude can be a simple way to boost morale at a time when layoffs and economic uncertainty are causing stress and anxiety.

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

More than 460 laid-off employees at the nation’s top public health agency are being reinstated.

The dream to give opportunities to people living with special needs is officially a reality for one businesswoman with Down syndrome.

Big changes are being proposed to a food assistance program as part of President Donald Trump's tax-cut legislation.

Since the beginning of June 2025, fewer people have been able to get tested for the virus at the San Antonio AIDS Foundation.

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state.

A top aide to Health Secretary Robert F.

WellMed at Stone Oak is inviting families to celebrate Father’s Day by offering local men a free heart check at an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, June 11.

Harm reductions initiatives are becoming more commonplace at major music festivals, both through partnerships with festival organizers as well as volunteer efforts done without explicit permission.

People with serious mental illness (SMI) often admit their condition makes it difficult to maintain a job or relationships. Considering it’s not rare — 5% of U.S. adults suffer from SMI — how can they get help in South Texas?

The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.

Health Secretary Robert F.

The U.S. is up to 1,168 confirmed measles cases this year.

The U.S. is up to 1,197 confirmed measles cases this year.

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”.

Federal health officials say a salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest.

As World Pride wraps up this weekend in Washington D.

A Utah judge has ruled that a convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed.

A student at Saint Mary’s Hall helped lead a team that raised more than $117,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at dozens of rules aimed at protecting the environment, including one that requires big polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions.

A federal judge has ruled that two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse, for religious reasons, to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage for such care to their workers.

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.

The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger.

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed rolling back more than two dozen rules aimed at protecting clean air and water, he called it the biggest day for deregulation in American history.

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel last December, Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel” and expressed that killing the executive “conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming."

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is beginning to worsen air quality in the eastern U.S. as several Midwestern states battle conditions deemed unhealthy by the federal government.

Project MEND will be collecting gently used medical mobility items for individuals in need

Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data.

A federal investigation has found that a Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law.

U.S. agriculture officials are warning that packages of ground beef sold at Whole Foods markets may be contaminated with E.

Federal authorities say they have arrested a Washington man who provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May.

As graduation season continues across San Antonio, one local high school senior is not just celebrating academic success; he is planning a future centered on giving back to his community.

Vietnam has scrapped its long-standing two-child policy as birth rates fall and its population ages.

Texas lawmakers have approved banning gummies, drinks and vapes infused with THC, the compound that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties.

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

The Trump administration has announced that it is revoking guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment.

Health Secretary Robert F.

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world.

Self-administered at-home tests are available for everything from thyroid function to HIV to cervical cancer.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years.

In Uganda, where more than 40% of the population live in extreme poverty, many families live in homes with dirt floors.

A ban on disposable vapes has come into force across the U.K. as the British government aims to stem their illegal use by children, reduce litter and prevent the leaking of harmful chemicals into the environment.

A first-of-its-kind experiment shows a three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients.

The Food and Drug administration has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna but with limits on who can use it.

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet.

The NAMI Mental Health Warm Line helps prevent crises before they occur by offering a listening ear, peer support and various resources for those experiencing mental health issues.

Federal health officials say at least 45 people in 18 states have been sickened in an expanding salmonella outbreak tied to recalled cucumbers.

The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.

Carlos Alcaraz has been wearing nasal strips in some matches since last season.

CVS and Express Scripts are asking a federal judge to block an Arkansas law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from owning or operating pharmacies in the state.

The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Allergies are a common and tricky problem in dogs and cats.

Australian comedian and actor Magda Szubanski has announced that she has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.

Natural gas has become a go-to fuel for power plants from coast to coast, sometimes replacing dirtier coal-fired plants and, by extension, improving air quality.

Utah Republicans passed a ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth in 2023 and argued it was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm.

The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including H5N1 bird flu.

For many Americans, it's not clear how easy getting a COVID-19 vaccination will be.

A cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill over the past week.

A San Antonio weight loss clinic owner is encouraging consumers of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide not to panic now that the FDA deadline for compound pharmacies to stop making it is in place.

Rescuers are searching for six people still missing after an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China shook nearby buildings, killing at least five people and injuring 19.

A 74-year-old former surgeon who raped hundreds of patients has been sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison by a French court.

Planned Parenthood is halting abortions in Missouri again after a ruling from the state Supreme Court.

Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Japan plans to use some of the slightly radioactive soil removed from across Fukushima prefecture on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office.

Kristina Smithe was running a marathon in California a few years ago when she started thinking about all the waste such events produce — especially the blizzard of disposable paper cups that can pile up at water spots.

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened more than 2,500 over the past week.

France’s lower house of parliament has adopted a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication.

The renowned mountain guide who used xenon gas treatment to put clients on top of Mount Everest and return them home within a week defended his technique, saying it is making climbing Mount Everest not just faster and safer, but also better for the environment by cutting down on garbage and waste.

Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints embrace yoga and other contemplative practices.

Scot Pollard is serving as the Grand Marshal of the Indy 500 Festival Parade this weekend.

Haitians with HIV are defying stigma as they publicly denounce USAID cuts implemented by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump that has led to a dwindling of life-saving medication.

Naqi Rizvi loves the “absolute freedom” he feels on the tennis court.

A Midwestern affiliate of Planned Parenthood says it will close four of its six clinics in Iowa and four in Minnesota within a year.

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government over the Trump administration’s attempts to collect the personal information of millions of U.S. residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Mass school shootings, as well as planned school attacks, can trigger stress and fear for many who may work or attend school in South Central Texas.

The Publix supermarket chain is recalling fruit and vegetable baby food because testing found elevated levels of lead.

Skin experts say people of color still need to wear sunscreen.

Out in the heat with nowhere to go — that’s the reality for hundreds of people in San Antonio without shelter.

President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer has brought the disease into the spotlight nationwide. Now local patients and doctors are speaking up to educate their community.

Prostate cancer is most common cancer in men, and is highly treatable if caught early. A KSAT anchor's family member is a testament to that and shared his story to spread awareness.