Health
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U.N. agency chiefs say Gaza needs more aid to arrive faster, warning of famine and disease
Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major U.N. agencies warned...
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Defense Secretary Austin released from hospital after furor over cancer diagnosis, treatment
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday following prostate cancer surgery and follow-up complications that sparked a...
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Hospital releases Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after prostate cancer surgery he kept secret
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday, after spending two weeks there to treat complications from surgery for...
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Japan's Kishida vows more funds to quake-hit zone as worry over diseases in evacuation centers rises
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was "speechless" by the severity and immense destruction of the disaster zone he saw during the...
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During 100 days of war, a Gaza doctor pushes through horror and loss in his struggle to save lives
For a few hours every day or night, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss tries to sleep on a thin mattress in an operating room. He swings in and out of...
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Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to amputee children thanks to crowdfunding
The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa's right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can...
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Quaker Oats expands recall of granola bars and cereals for salmonella risk
The Quaker Oats Company has added two dozen additional types of granola bars, cereals and snack foods to a December recall over possible salmonella...
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Country star Jelly Roll calls for new anti-fentanyl legislation
Rapper and country music star Jason DeFord, known on the stage as Jelly Roll, pleaded with Congress on Thursday to pass a stronger law against...
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For Republican lawmakers in Georgia, Medicaid expansion could still be a risky vote
The prospect -- albeit still dim -- that Georgia could fully expand Medicaid has prompted Democrats and patient advocates to turn up the pressure...
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Alabama can enforce a ban on gender-transition care for transgender minors, appeals court rules
Alabama can begin immediately enforcing a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender people under 19, a federal...
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NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan's 19-year-old daughter is fighting cancer
The 19-year-old daughter of NFL Hall of Famer and "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan is undergoing treatment for brain cancer.
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Ohio woman who miscarried on home toilet is not criminally liable, grand jury says
An Ohio woman facing a criminal charge for her handling of a home miscarriage will not be charged, a grand jury decided Thursday.