A push by New York City jail officials to block people detained at Rikers Island from receiving physical mail was based on faulty fentanyl test strips that overstated the influx of contraband sent through the mail.

Experts say people shopping for health insurance right now should look beyond price when searching for coverage for next year.

The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children.

Officials say Pakistan has detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year.

Vigils and other events are being held to draw attention to transgender people who have lost their lives due to violence in the past year.

Women's health advocates in Africa are worried that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will again invoke the so-called global gag rule, a policy that cuts off U.S. government funding for groups that offer abortion-related services.

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon turned talk show host and lifestyle guru, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the massive federal health care bureaucracy that covers more than a third of Americans.

An Iowa-based group that strives to alleviate world hunger is announcing a leadership change as it works to expand its international focus.

A judge has struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

The City of San Antonio and San Antonio Sports will announce a new “major running event” to replace the Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series.

Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among health care workers on trial in Istanbul accused of causing at least 10 infant deaths linked to a scheme to defraud Turkey's social security system.

An outbreak of E.

Health officials say they have confirmed the first U.S. case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo.

Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest protest day during the two-week talks.

After serving the running community for 16 years, the Rock n’ Roll Running Series announced its departure from San Antonio, as this year’s December event will be their last “run.”

Faced with a crisis, City of San Antonio officials are working on a solution to support people during a mental health crisis.

Pakistani authorities have declared a health emergency in the country's east due to smog.

Croatia’s health minister and several others were detained on Friday on suspicion of corruption as part of an investigation launched by the European prosecutor’s office.

Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel industry influence at these climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, called COP29.

A U.S. military watchdog says Navy officials lacked sufficient understanding of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people.

On this week’s edition of Doc Talk, University Health Dr. Amy Cobb joined KSAT 12 anchors Steve Spriester and Myra Arthur to answer viewer’s health-related questions on a wide range of topics including arthritis, whooping cough and American Diabetes Month.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has been ranked in the top 5% of universities in the world.

New rules require drugmakers to be clearer about explaining the risks and side effects of prescription drugs.

Deep breathing can be a simple and effective way to reduce stress.

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get.

Fans said they learned the news before the Spurs game against the Washington Wizards Wednesday night.

Democratic lawmakers who wield control of the Virginia Legislature are hoping to make good on promises made on the campaign trail, including becoming the first Southern state to expand constitutional protections for abortion access.

Local couple host annual drag show to raise money, awareness for diabetes

The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities.

Canadian health officials have confirmed bird flu in a British Columbia teen.

At least 104 people have been sickened, with 34 hospitalized, in an outbreak of E.

Doctors say requests for permanent sterilizations and long-term birth control like IUDs have surged across the nation since Donald Trump was elected president last week.

New government data shows that U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to be showing a sustained decline.

Health experts say walking is an easy way to improve physical and mental health, bolster fitness and prevent disease.

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

Food and beverage manufacturer Kraft Heinz says it's no longer serving the Lunchables meals it created for U.S. schools.

Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion ban told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own health in danger.

A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky.

The Justice Department is suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys.

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data.

People will notice litter booms placed at Salado Creek in Comanche and MLK Park this week. The floating devices are set to help catch floating trash without impacting wildlife. River Aid San Antonio, a nonprofit organization, has been instrumental in raising awareness about the trash littering our waterways.

One in 10 people have diabetes. Almost half of the adult population is unaware of their condition, according to the International Diabetes Federation.

New Tactics 6 is a nonprofit that gives veterans and first responders a few hours to decompress and heal mental stress.

The World Health Organization says mpox cases in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” even as the virus continues to increase in other regions of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.

Four-year-old Hussein Mikdad survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in a Beirut suburb last month.

After working at a crowded and dangerous internment camp in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O’Brien brought home with her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban.

The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.

Anti-abortion advocates say they will quickly dismantle some of President Joe Biden's abortion policies once President-elect Donald Trump makes his return to the White House next year.

Thousands of mental health calls are made to 911 in San Antonio each year. KSAT is taking a closer look at the effectiveness of the city’s crisis response team.

CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital Dr. Perla Soni joined KSAT anchors Steve Spriester and Myra Arthur to answer a variety of viewers’ pediatric questions including determining if your child needs braces and understanding pneumonia.

An expensive campaign by abortion-rights advocates for state Supreme Court seats has yielded mixed results.

A former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu.

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to spread.

By focusing on whole foods and mindful habits, you can not only combat risks associated with cancer but also enhance your wellbeing.

UT Health San Antonio was one of 62 health organizations across the nation recognized for their efforts to reduce doctor burnout and their commitment to physician well-being.

Last week, KSAT went to the Arrowhead subdivision, where the water was brown or highly chlorinated. In October, it even tested positive for E. coli. After that story aired, messages flowed in from people in the Shady Oaks community.

Abortion rights advocates prevailed in ballot measures in seven states, but that doesn't resolve the issue.

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of illness outside of Africa.

A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and tried to kill his mother’s boyfriend by injecting him with a fake COVID-19 vaccine that was poison has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.

Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration.

Donald Trump is refusing to say how he voted on Florida’s abortion measure and he's getting testy about it.

Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament.

Abortion rights advocates lost on Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota ballot measures but prevailed in seven other states, including Missouri, where an amendment clears the way to undo one of the nation's strictest bans.

Mary Ann Kozlowski is the longest survivor of an artificial double heart valve replacement, at 49 years and 92 days. She had her surgery in December 1974.

The last three hospitals still partially functioning in northern Gaza have been encircled by Israeli troops and caught amid fighting for weeks.

Thousands of women have rallied in the U.S. capital and elsewhere with abortion rights at the forefront of their demonstrations.

Some health officials say mpox cases in Congo appear to be “stabilizing.”.

The debate over abortion rights is leading to expensive campaigns for state Supreme Courts in several states this year.

In a story published Nov. 1, 2024, about COVID-19 vaccines in Idaho, The Associated Press, citing Southwest Health District statistics, erroneously reported the number of COVID-19 vaccines the district provided in 2021 and 2024.

Thousands are expected to line the area outside the Methodist Hospital - Westover Hills location on Saturday morning for the Susan G. Komen MORE THAN PINK Walk.

No Shave November is a tradition where men across the United States let their facial hair grow for an entire month. Here at KSAT, we also want to do our part to help.

A powerful bomb attached to a motorcycle has exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwest Pakistan, killing nine people including five nearby children.

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday.

Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others.

Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for one year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research.

It’s no surprise that workers feel burned-out.

Americans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025.

The European Commission has fined Israeli generic drugmaker Teva more than 460 million euros ($500 million) for improperly seeking to protect the patent for its multiple sclerosis drug and for disparaging a rival company’s development of a competing medicine.

An alarming trend of younger people and teens using e-cigarettes and vapes is pushing the City of San Antonio to change its Smoke-Free Ordinance to include these products.

A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales.

Forty-five homes in a Floresville, Texas subdivision depend on a well for water, but they tell KSAT that for about two years now, the water quality has them afraid for their health.

Federal officials are reporting more cases of E.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

People prone to seasonal depression are bracing themselves as winter approaches.

Doctor Derrick Cantu a San Antonio area pediatric dentist says all candy is okay in moderation, but there are some candies that are worse than others when it comes to causing cavities.

A 15-year-old Colorado girl is hospitalized with severe complications of E.

The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year.

A federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida’s health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights measure on next week’s ballot.

Morgan Fernandez, 41, is sharing her story of positivity and perseverance after her breast cancer diagnosis, hoping to raise awareness about the disease.

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, triggering a shootout that left two police officers dead.

Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people refusing to become organ donors, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.

Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them.

The state-of-the-art facility provides complete eye care and offers services at little to no cost to the patient

Declutter expert says starting out with small manageable weekend projects is a realistic way to start the clearing and cleaning process.