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Bird Flu Lab
Dairy cows stand in a field outside of a milking barn at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Health

A bird flu outbreak is spreading among cows in the US. Scientists are hunting for answers

AUG. 23, 2024

Africa Mpox Explainer
FILE - Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on, Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Health

A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and what is the WHO doing?

AUG. 15, 2024

Emergency Rooms Pregnancy
Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who is filing a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Health

Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law

AUG. 12, 2024

Mexico Hospital Celebration
Miztli Valencia, 15, attends the annual “Mis XV” or “My Fifteenth” birthday celebration for patients who are currently in treatment for a serious disease or have overcome cancer, at the Federico Gomez Children’s Hospital in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)

Entertainment

How a Mexico City hospital transforms into a coming-of-age celebration for its patients

AUG. 12, 2024

Sierra Leone Mental Health
View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. The hospital was once known among locals as the "Crase Yard," or yard for crazy people. Now it's known as the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. It has helped give the facility, the oldest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, a new reputation. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Health

Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway

AUG. 6, 2024

Russia Ukraine War Palestinian Doctor
Alya Gali, a Gaza Strip-born doctor, looks at debris two weeks after a missile killed nine as it hit a private clinic where he has worked for most of his professional life in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 22, 2024. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 catapulted Gali’s life into the chaos of constant air raids and missile attacks. Israel’s war on Hamas turned his hometown into a hellscape, uprooting his family and killing two of his relatives. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

General

From Gaza to Kyiv, a Palestinian doctor lives between two wars

AUG. 2, 2024

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Skin Diseases
Displaced child Sham al-Hessi, center, who suffers from skin disease, is covered with skin cream as she poses for a picture, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024. Skin diseases are running rampant in Gaza, health officials say, from appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps housing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana )

Health

Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza’s tent camps

JULY 30, 2024

Jennifer Wexton
Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., uses an AI program on her iPad at her home in Leesburg, Va., Friday, July 19, 2024. A rare neurological disease robbed Wexton of her ability to speak clearly. But with the help of a powerful artificial intelligence program, the Virginia Democrat will use a clone of her voice to deliver what is believed to be the first speech on the House floor ever given via a voice cloned by artificial intelligence, thrusting Wexton into a broader debate about over artificial intelligence. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Health

A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor.

JULY 25, 2024

Prison to Plate Inmate Labor Heat
In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, prison guards ride horses that were broken by inmates as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. In September, several incarcerated workers along with the New Orleans-based advocacy group Voice of the Experienced filed a class-action lawsuit calling for an end to the farm line, and accusing the state of cruel and unusual punishment. But as temperatures soared in May, the men asked the court in an emergency filing to stop work during extreme heat. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

General

Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South

JULY 25, 2024

Puerto Rico Rapper Doctor
Dr. Pedro Juan Vázquez, better known by his stage name PJ Sin Suela, attends to a patient in Loiza, Puerto Rico, Saturday, May 25, 2024. The 34-year-old doctor travels from the San Juan capital to the island’s southern and central regions to treat communities struggling in the aftermath of hurricanes. After hanging up his doctor’s scrubs, Vázquez spends his time producing new music that relays the island’s issues. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Health

As doctors leave Puerto Rico in droves, a rapper tries to fill the gaps

JULY 23, 2024

Jon Stewart
FILE - Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks. They got sick from staying at at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, or K2, a base contaminated with enriched uranium. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Health

Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

JULY 23, 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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