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GOMA, Congo -- Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, as fighting rages on between governm...
Drinking coffee only in the morning may help people live longer compared to drinking the beverage throughout the day, a new study suggests.Researchers from T...
A child in San Francisco was recently confirmed to be the third human case of bird flu in the United States in which it's unclear how the person got infected...
Bird flu is spreading across the United States, causing egg prices to soar and availability to plummet.Cases of bird flu, or avian influenza, have increased ...
This is the same form linked to the patient that died in Louisiana.February 5, 2025, 5:43 PMA second type of bird flu has been found in U.S. dairy cows for t...
Salt substitutes are a simple intervention that can help manage blood pressure and lower stroke risk. Maskot/Getty Images
Swapping regular salt for ...
Citing the hundreds of lives lost to extreme heat each year, California state housing officials are urging lawmakers to set residential cooling standards lon...
The patient was over age 65 and had underlying medical conditions.The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Hea...
Seven families with transgender or nonbinary children filed a lawsuit Tuesday over President Donald Trump's executive orders to narrowly define the sexes and...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI) measure.The...
SUITLAND, Md. — At a SuperSuds Laundromat just south of Washington, D.C., a steady stream of customers loaded clothes into washers and dryers on a recent Sun...
Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion policy, as he said on the...
There have been 67 confirmed human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April 2024.Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal governmen...
This is a KFF Health News story.The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancie...
As devastating wildfires continue to spread across southern California, thousands of structures have been destroyed or damaged and at least five people have ...
In the nearly nine months since the first human case of bird flu was detected in the United States, the virus has continued to spread.The outbreak infected h...
JGL Aesthetics' Instagram profile promised its clients radiant skin, friendly service and a machine they said could give people toned abs. However, some clie...
A new memo says the Defense Department will no longer reimburse service members for travel out of state to get reproductive health care, including abortions ...
Cases of flu, COVID and RSV remain high across the U.S., CDC data shows.Respiratory viruses are continuing to spread across the United States, sickening mill...
Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs.The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than o...
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