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Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again

The World Health Organization reports that a nurse has been killed and a health worker severely injured in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in Congo

Uganda is reinforcing existing border controls requiring citizens returning from Congo to undergo 21 days of quarantine at their own expense, the Health Ministry said Sunday, as investigators examine how a woman who traveled from Uganda to Nigeria cont...

More than 50,000 people in Europe died this summer from heat, a record high amount, a new study finds

A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is helping significantly reduce the chances that melanoma patients' tumors return

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the first Ebola patients confirmed in Kenya and Nigeria might have crossed paths at an airport in Uganda

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has invited health ministers to an extraordinary virtual meeting as Ebola spreads across the continent

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is taking a psychological toll on families dealing with loss, fear and stigma

There are ways patients can try to improve their chances of getting organ transplants

Equatorial Guinea has tackled malaria with a successful strategy on Bioko Island

Ebola cases in Kenya rose to eight on Sunday after another person tested positive while in quarantine, having been identified as a contact of the first patient

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to an eighth province

Pope Leo XIV has returned to the Vatican after undergoing surgery to remove a lung tumor

Three Kenyan health workers tested positive for Ebola, Health Ministry says.

Open enrollment for Medicare plans begins Thursday, allowing people to choose between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans until Dec. 7

Hunger and acute malnutrition are rising dramatically in Afghanistan, the result of overlapping crises

Doctors say Pope Leo XIV is eating regularly and has begun walking and doing respiratory exercises, and his post-operative tests are normal following surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung

Pope Leo XIV had the lower section of his right lung removed as doctors diagnosed him with the most common form of lung cancer

Congo's Ebola outbreak has surpassed 9,000 confirmed cases, with over 4,300 deaths, according to government figures

Pope Leo XIV is to have an operation to remove a localized lung nodule detected early

A Somali mother walked for three days carrying her severely malnourished 3-year-old daughter nearly 90 kilometers to a hospital in Kismayo

Towns is still grieving the loss of his mother six years ago to COVID-19.

The World Health Organization says it still doesn't know what caused the death of a young worker at a Russian lab focused on plague and other illnesses

Zimbabwean teenager Kelly Nhedega once dreamed of finishing school and starting a career before having a family

Police have arrested thousands of young people in France during protests demanding better school funding

The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nations main abortion pill will continue into next year

The plague, a rare bacterial infection known for its deadly impact in 14th-century Europe, still exists today

Lawyers for a Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk are asking a judge to stay his execution by lethal injection, citing the recent failed attempted execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee

Kenyan authorities on Tuesday confirmed the countrys first imported Ebola case from Congo

Zambia plans to sign a revised health agreement with the United States that excludes controversial clauses about sharing patient data and specimens

Russian authorities say a staffer at a plague research institute in Siberia contracted pneumonia of an unknown cause, and local state TV reported the woman died last week

Doctors and health insurers have filed suit alleging Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature violated the law when they approved a healthcare tax that could substantially increase insurance premiums

Doctors nationwide have warned for years that energy drinks contain high levels of caffeine that can seriously harm children

Congo's Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths as authorities struggle to contain the virus

The lethal drug administered in Tennessees failed attempt to execute Christa Pike has been used in multiple states that carry out the death penalty

Ryan Lasko was a promising outfielder in the Athletics organization on a path he hoped would one day make him a major leaguer, having established himself in Double-A ball

Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge abortion shield laws in California, Massachusetts and New York that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills across state lines

Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death

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Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Trump's third nominee for surgeon general, is moving closer to confirmation

When summer heat feels stifling, most people can cool off with a glass of ice-cold water, turning up the AC or opening a window