Cyclospora, a parasite causing gastrointestinal illness, has reemerged in Texas and several other states, with Texas and Illinois reporting up to 30 cases each and New York leading with around 80 cases since May 1, 2026.

Irisleydis Tristá, a cancer patient in Cuba, has been unable to get a crucial CT scan for seven months because the machine at Havana’s leading hospital is broken.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to keep hospitals from marking up discounted drugs for Medicare patients.

New Jersey is set to charge companies whose workers have Medicaid health coverage.

Former NFL star Chris Johnson is bringing back the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness of ALS as he fights the fatal nervous system disease.

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were untreated wounds and infectious diseases.

The federal government has launched a new program to make GLP-1 weight loss drugs more affordable for older Americans.

Hospitals in the Paris region are urgently upgrading their defenses against heat waves.

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities.

California is making food labels less confusing by banning "sell by" dates.

The Trump administration has frozen federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Heat can be dangerous, but health experts say there are ways to manage the threat.

Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country.

A single mosquito bite two years ago changed Fernando Silva’s life forever and health officials are now warning that this summer’s record mosquito surge across southeast Texas could put thousands of others at risk.

Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy and several other fields will be eligible for higher student loan limits after a federal judge blocked part of a Trump administration rule that held them to lower caps.

Arkansas is moving forward with a ban on allowing government food aid to be used for candy and soda.

The Food and Drug Administration is meeting next month to consider easing restrictions on several peptides, a group of unapproved drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The agency posted meeting materials online Monday.

Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its interpretation of new Medicaid work requirements.

New Mexico's governor says the state could seek billions in civil damages after DEA agents allowed fentanyl shipments into communities.

A judge has delayed Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A heat wave is gripping the Midwest and is shifting eastward, causing summer camps and outdoor activities to be canceled or delayed.

A record-breaking heat wave has overwhelmed mortuaries in Paris, leaving funeral directors struggling to find space for bodies.

New federal figures show that about 3 million fewer people had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year.

Legislators across the U.S. are trying to lower prescription costs by reining in big companies that handle drug coverage for health insurers.

According to the latest U.S. Census data, Texas leads the nation in the number of uninsured residents.

New Mexico's attorney general has opened a criminal investigation into claims that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets.

The Montgomery County Public Health Department says it has received confirmation from the Texas Department of State Health Services of the first case of West Nile Virus in a resident of the county for 2026.

A judge has temporarily ordered Tennessee not to give immigration authorities information about hundreds of sick and disabled immigrant children who are enrolled in a healthcare assistance program.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling for a criminal investigation into whether federal authorities broke state law by allowing fentanyl pills to reach the streets.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from executing subpoenas in a criminal probe that sought transgender care records for patients treated at New York hospitals.

Rip currents are one of the coast’s greatest dangers and account for the most beach rescues every year.

A positive case of Ebola virus has been identified in France.

A judge has ruled that the U.S. government cannot stop people enrolled in the biggest food aid program from using benefits to buy candy and soda.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against 455 people as part of a two-week healthcare fraud crackdown that officials say involved more than $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to insurers.

As mosquito season ramps up across Southeast Texas, residents are dealing with itchy bites and irritated skin—and health experts say the worst thing you can do may be the most instinctive one.

Authorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths.

France is in the grips of a severe heat wave, leading to canceled trains, concerts and sports events.

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a state of emergency to empower the military to remove road blockades.

Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks in almost every county.

Mourners in eastern Congo have gathered to bury a 6-month-old girl who died from Ebola earlier this week.

The mother of a teenage girl who died after doctors in the Dominican Republic delayed treating her for cancer because she was pregnant is challenging the country’s strict abortion ban.

From Tropical Storm Arthur to a dangerous heat event — all within 24 hours — FIFA World Cup 2026 fans at the FIFA Fan Festival in Houston have seen it all, and they’re not going anywhere.

The Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed 204 deaths, with 894 confirmed cases, Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

A new kind of flu vaccine is moving a step closer to the U.S. market.

FIFA’s new hydration breaks midway through each half were implemented to help players stay cool in the summer heat of Mexico, Canada and the United States, which some experts have warned could be the hottest World Cup in history.

Parents of kids with disabilities say they have waited months for the Education Department to address complaints of bullying or discrimination.

The Federal Trade Commission and four states are suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought.

Luigi Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A 16-month-old baby and his mother have recovered from Ebola in eastern Congo.

Whenever Ebola comes, some of those stricken choose the road to the nearest hospital.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held.

The nation’s infant mortality dropped to a new all-time low in 2025.

When you go camping, do you have hot dogs or quinoa salad.

Paris Hilton has returned to the Utah boarding school where she said she was abused as a teenager.

Cuba says its healthcare system is struggling due to a U.S. energy blockade.

Congolese authorities report a large daily increase in Ebola cases as the virus without a approved medicine or vaccine spreads rapidly.

The Congolese Ministry of Health reports that confirmed Ebola cases in Congo have increased to 782, with 181 deaths.

Nara Organics has recalled its organic baby formula sold at Target stores and online due to a multistate outbreak of infant botulism.

Nearly 6% of U.S. middle and high school students vape.

Several top pro athletes and their surgeons say a modern version of an old tool is shaving weeks off the recovery time after certain injuries.

The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak.

A new memo from U.S. health regulators is raising questions about a recent decision to authorize the first fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adult smokers.

Israel’s Supreme Court is considering whether to extend the detention of a prominent Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, who was seized 17 months ago in Gaza.

Blood cancer survivor DeAnna Brandon worries about new Medicaid work requirements affecting her health coverage.

A New Mexico judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of the state's fledgling universal childcare program.

Instead of masking symptoms, Antiage Institute focuses on identifying and treating root causes - hormone imbalances, metabolic issues and inflammation - to help patients feel better now and age better later.

Health officials will be on high alert for germs as millions of soccer fans gather for World Cup matches.

The court officials overseeing the NFL’s $1 billion-plus settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients toward doctors willing to give them a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis whether they exhibited symptoms or not.

Federal health regulators have signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected.

The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with enough information about prices.

The students in Bengie Santos' exercise class at the Greater Seattle Y say there's something special about their 72-year-old instructor.

Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently.

At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo.

Survivors including health and aid workers recall their experiences and lessons during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

Dr. Michel Azer, founder and surgeon at Texas Dental Implant Center discusses the facts and myths associated with dental implants and what sets his ONEARCH procedure apart from others.

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry.

Make sure to take precautions when traveling during extreme summer heat.

New data from the World Health Organization shows foodborne illnesses continue to be a major global health threat, causing an estimated 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths every year.

Authorities have raced to slow the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo with strict measures, including by limiting public gatherings and enforcing social distancing.

Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died.

Health workers inside the epicenter of Congo's outbreak say they are working with little pay or rest.

Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread.

For Texans planning to grow their family, where they live could have a major impact on pregnancy, childbirth costs and access to care.

A staff member says a resident killed in a fire at an unregistered nursing home in western Sri Lanka had been chained and another was untied and saved.

In Congo, the battle against the rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola has been complicated by skepticism, attacks on health workers and misinformation.

The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than a half century.

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into a prominent energy drink company over concerns that it may be marketing its products to children and teenagers despite containing high levels of caffeine.

Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women.

In a city known for sweltering summers, sticky humidity and months of triple-digit heat indexes, a new report suggests many Houstonians may not be drinking enough water to keep up.

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.

Congo is still hoping to play its World Cup warmup against Chile after the mayor of the Spanish city of La Linea de la Concepcion denied authorization for the match because of health concerns related to the Ebola crisis.

The World Health Organization says Congo's Ebola outbreak had a head start, but testing is improving.

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

Businessman Zach Lahn's win in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary over President Donald Trump's pick is a rare electoral setback for Trump.

Indonesia's former head of the National Nutrition Agency has been arrested on corruption charges related to a multi-billion-dollar free-meals program.

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.

A few simple skills can make a big difference. CPR and Safety Lady, Gail Gould, shares CPR and AED basics to help you feel more confident and prepared in an emergency.