There is one handwashing station and one infrared thermometer to fight the Ebola epidemic in this camp for 10,000 displaced people in Bunia, a city at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo.

A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port.

Medical professionals say that moving to music is a great way for older adults to stay healthier as they age.

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

President Donald Trump has wrapped up a three-hour visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what the White House describes as preventive medical and dental exams.

Health workers responding to a rapidly spreading outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo face two threats.

Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven.

A local hospital official says that angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of an outbreak in eastern Congo, demanding the bodies of their relatives.

Angry residents in eastern Congo have attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center treating Ebola patients.

Pope Leo XIV has visited families near Naples affected by illegal toxic dumping linked to the mafia.

Bundibugyo is the somewhat easy-to-mispronounce name of a species of Ebola.

The Associated Press has learned that officials at the Food and Drug Administration were blindsided by a recent policy change allowing more electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches to hit the U.S. market.

Authorities in northeastern Congo have banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more than 50 people to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak.

An advocacy group is suing President Donald Trump's administration over its decision to reinstate a near-ban on abortions for veterans and their family members who depend on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare.

New York City's iconic pizzerias and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive.

Target is planning to remove cereals containing certain synthetic food dyes from its shelves by the end of the month amid growing debates over artificial coloring between parents, health experts and federal regulators.

Head spas, which offer scalp and face massages, are gaining popularity in the U.S. Hundreds of locations, especially in California and New York, now offer these services.

The Department of Health and Human Services is boosting its use of artificial intelligence to monitor audits from federal grant recipients.

People have set fire to an Ebola treatment center in one of the towns at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo as fear and anger grows over a health crisis authorities and aid agencies are struggling to contain.

The Positive Parenting Program, also called Triple P, helps families with many different types of parenting resources to prevent child welfare issues.

The Trump administration has fired the two leaders of an influential health group that determines when insurance must provide free preventive care like mammograms for millions of Americans.

New Mexico authorities say three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were assessed for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a rural home for a suspected drug overdose.

A retired Army veteran went from working as a mentor and substitute principal to having his healthy life turned upside down.

Congo’s soccer team has canceled a three-day World Cup preparation training camp and a planned farewell to fans in the capital Kinshasa because of an outbreak of Ebola in the east of the country.

Healthcare workers in eastern Congo say they are underprotected and undertrained as a rare Ebola virus spreads rapidly in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places.

The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered the state's largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors.

Jell-O is getting a line of products made without synthetic colors or artificial sweeteners to meet increasing consumer demand for natural ingredients.

Vice President JD Vance’s decision to extend his fight against Medicaid fraud beyond Democratic states to his red home state of Ohio has set off a scramble among the state’s Republicans — including his close ally Vivek Ramaswamy, the party’s nominee for governor.

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia.

Nationwide enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplace could drop by nearly 5 million people this year.

It's spring cleaning season, and for some people that means drudgery or anxiety.

The World Health Organization director-general has expressed concern over the rapid spread of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo.

A wildfire sparked by the fatal crash of a small medical plane in New Mexico has triggered evacuations for a rural area north of the Capitan Mountains and closures in the Lincoln National Forest.

President Donald Trump has announced an expansion of his discounted-drug website, TrumpRx.

KSAT Community will host a live, televised phone bank from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 11, to benefit Project MEND, which helps provide refurbished medical mobility equipment to people in need.

A gun and notebook that prosecutors say link Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson can be used as evidence at his murder trial.

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies that object to negotiating Medicare drug prices with the federal government.

Congo will open three treatment centers for the Ebola virus in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak that has killed nearly 120 people.

A cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection.

The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern.

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises.

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Authorities say at least 87 people have died in Congo’s new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province.

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District and H-E-B will cover $100 per prescription, including refills, under its relaunched Diabetes Insulin Assistance Program to those who need financial assistance.

A Kansas judge has protected access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors as the nation’s largest children’s hospital moved to restrict such care in Texa and buckled under pressure from the Trump administration.

Africa’s top public health body confirms a new Ebola outbreak in Congo's Ituri province.

Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks.

The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island's largest hospital.

The coronavirus pandemic's impact lingers, influencing our lives in both obvious and subtle ways.

Passengers unaffected by an illness outbreak on a British cruise ship have been allowed to disembark in the French port city of Bordeaux.

Vice President JD Vance is highlighting the Trump administration’s efforts to combat fraud in a visit to Maine ahead of the state’s primary elections for several high-profile races.

An oncologist traveling on a cruise ship amid a hantavirus outbreak says he's the lone American isolated at a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska.

The Trump administration is expanding its fraud-busting initiative in federal health programs.

About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year.

Oceanwide Expeditions says it expects to know by the end of the week if the MV Hondius cruise ship will keep to its schedule after a hantavirus outbreak.

When Jake Rosmarin boarded the MV Hondius, he gleefully posted on social media that the ship would be home for 35 days as he and more than 100 other passengers and crew were to travel across the South Atlantic.

Marty Makary is resigning as President Donald Trump's Food and Drug Administration head.

While women and men share many of the same traditional risk factors for heart attack -- high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, age and family history -- women also face additional risks tied to their biology and life stages.

Scientists are supercharging patients' own immune cells to try to fight HIV without today's drugs.

Everyone prepares for birth. Far fewer are prepared for what comes after.

A doctor says a French woman being treated for hantavirus after being infected on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung.

The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.

A Tennessee doctor is practicing reproductive medicine aligned with his Christian faith.

The last remaining passengers on a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have disembarked and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine.

For the first time in more than a decade, a leading pediatricians group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it’s crucial for good health and good grades and should be part of the school day for students of all ages.

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans.

A new survey finds about half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from social media influencers or podcasts.

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth.

Sunshine feels great and comes with benefits, like boosting vitamin D, but dermatologists warn that sun damage can accumulate over decades and lead to skin cancer.

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

U.S. immigration officials have quietly lifted a hold on green card and visa applications for doctors from three dozen countries.

Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship.

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that affects millions of Americans, including one in 12 children and families in our communities.

A hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship has put a rare but deadly virus back in the headlines. Here is a closer look at the virus, how it spreads and what people can do to stay safe.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other health officials have repeatedly announced major changes before any new rules have been drafted.

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24.

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.

Three cruise ship passengers with suspected hantavirus infections are being flown to the Netherlands for treatment.

U.S. health regulators have announced their first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers.

The U.N. health agency says two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak.

A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend.

As housing costs climb across Bexar County, data from Metro Health reveals families are increasingly forced to choose between housing and healthcare — a tradeoff now being linked to worsening physical and mental health outcomes.

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against Denver and its police department seeking to strike down an assault weapons ban that’s been in place for Colorado’s largest city since 1989.

President Donald Trump’s deals with drugmakers requiring many of their U.S. prescription prices to drop could save the economy $529 billion over the next decade.

Zambia accuses the U.S. of linking a $2 billion health assistance deal to access to its rich mineral resources.

Footage obtained by The Associated Press of a cruise ship in a rare-virus outbreak shows deserted decks and medical teams in protective gear as the vessel and its nearly 150 passengers and crew waited another day for help off West Africa.

The Supreme Court has restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation.

A cruise ship with nearly 150 people is waiting for help off Cape Verde's coast in the Atlantic Ocean after three passengers died and three others were left seriously ill in a suspected hantavirus outbreak.

The World Health Organization says that a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people and sickened at least three others.

Democrat Amy Acton is running unopposed in her party’s primary for Ohio governor, but she'll face some steep challenges in the November general election.

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.

President Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Nicole Saphier as his third pick for U.S. surgeon general.

Six transgender Idaho residents are suing the state over a strict new bathroom ban.

President Donald Trump says he's nominating former Fox News Channel contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general after Dr. Casey Means’ path forward stalled in the Senate.

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States.

Getting a flu shot every year has long been the standard — but researchers in San Antonio are working to change that.