The virus has been confined to certain areas of the Amazon but is moving into new turf as climate change enables the insects ...

Liverwurst lover Sue Fleming was among more than 40 people hit with listeria food poisoning. The Missouri woman was was ...

Five people, including two California doctors, have been charged in connection with the 2023 death of the Friends actor, ...

Florida, like states across, has declining immunization rates among kindergartners. As classes resume, health care providers ...

The 3,162 deaths in 2024 was up from 2,972 at the beginning of July. The pace of deaths is lower than during the past four ...

Researchers say they’ve tracked down the origins of Stonehenge’s so-called “Altar Stone,” the monolith at the center of one ...

Clinics in Washington and Chicago are reporting increases in patients from Florida and elsewhere in the Southeast. But it’s not easy to travel, and some women are finding ways to work around the law.

The White House is set to announce how much it was able to save on Medicare drug prices. It's the first time the federal program has negotiated lower prices with the pharmaceutical industry.

President Biden traveled to New Orleans this week to announce a $150 million investment in technologies to improve cancer surgeries. We check in on the progress of Cancer Moonshot.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University and ex-White House COVID-19 response coordinator, about the summer COVID surge.

With Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized for exaggerating his military service, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to psychologist Holly Cole about why humans tend to embellish stories.

The World Health Organization declared mpox, previously known as monkeypox, a public health emergency. Cases have been surging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and spread to nearby countries.