Tommy John, the pitching great known for the surgery that bears his name, has died at 83.

What if the most important back-to-school preparation has nothing to do with what’s in a backpack?

Bedbugs are on the rise and they tend to be at their worst at this time of year.

A small but growing body of research shows that GLP-1 drugs often used to treat obesity may also work for the hormonal disorder known as PMOS.

When Aniya Soni was diagnosed with scoliosis at 14, she said she didn’t know anyone else going through the same thing. Now 16, she is working to make sure other girls in San Antonio don’t feel that same isolation.

A federal appeals court says President Donald Trump’s goal of ending gender-affirming care is not improper and cannot be the basis for quashing a subpoena.

Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson resolves one of two cases against him.

As traumatic injuries and deaths continue to surge among the youngest e-bike riders, officials across the country are taking different paths to tackle a growing epidemic.

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a stunning development in a case that rattled business leaders while galvanizing their critics, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A federal investigation accuses California's prison system of failing to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse by guards.

Health officials in Hays County have confirmed the first human case of West Nile Virus this year.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death in Bas-Uele, according to Africa's CDC.

Marathon organizers are adjusting to warmer race conditions caused by climate change.

The biggest obstacles to President Donald Trump’s order on vaccines may be the logistical challenges it poses for parents, health providers and drugmakers in the United States.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel.

The World Health Organization is warning that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history.

President Donald Trump's executive order to change the childhood vaccine schedule could endear him to some “Make America Healthy Again” voters who want more flexibility on immunization.

Doctors worry that President Donald Trump’s new executive order on vaccines will stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school.

Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors.

Missy Mazzoli's opera “The Galloping Cure” explores the opioids epidemic through a haunting allegory.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record.

A defense lawyer for the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children is questioning her psychiatrist's expertise, prescribing decisions and overall treatment.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

U.S. health officials want food manufacturers to provide more information about new additives and ingredients.

The World Health Organization says the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak started in February, months before it was officially declared in May.

Taylor Fresh Foods, parent company of Taylor Farms, is voluntarily recalling some products that include jalapenos because of worries about a possible salmonella contamination.

Democratic New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is freezing her eggs as she decides her next political moves.

Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria.

All passengers on a quarantined river boat near Kinshasa have tested negative for Ebola, authorities say.

Traveling with a baby can be daunting, especially on long-distance flights and international trips.

In a landmark ruling against Meta, a New Mexico judge likened the company’s social media platforms to factories.

Eating on a tighter budget doesn’t mean people have to sacrifice sufficient nutrition.

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is zeroing in on her psychiatric care before she killed her three children.

A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died.

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms.

A Georgia woman says she was wrongly diagnosed with aggressive cancer due to a labeling error and underwent an unneeded hysterectomy.

In some children, some seemingly unrelated signs can point to tethered cord syndrome -- a condition where the spinal cord attaches to tissue instead of moving freely within the spinal canal.

The jury in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy saw autopsy photos of the youngest of three children, who she has admitted strangling in January 2023.

Six years after the world was thrust into a global pandemic, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.

WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year.

Federal officials have traced a multistate salmonella outbreak to jalapeño peppers from a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to overhaul Head Start, a key early education program for the nation's neediest children.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.

Italy has placed all major cities under the highest heat alert as Europe faces a severe heat wave.

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

Military officials say the majority of American troops wounded in the Iran war have suffered traumatic brain injuries.

A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel warns that Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank have pushed the territory’s health system to the brink of collapse.

Congolese health authorities have quarantined nearly 200 boat passengers near Kinshasa.

A Senate committee has voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The federal government is taking steps to shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life.

Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce.

Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Months before Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, the family's former nanny said she saw her deal with significant weight loss, insomnia, and postpregnancy mental health issues.

Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment before Congress will be put to the test this week.

The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in Congo is still spreading faster than efforts to track it, according to the head of the World Health Organization.

Chipotle Mexican Grill says it has removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could potentially be tied to a salmonella outbreak public health officials are investigating.

As students return to playgrounds and sports fields, falls and sports-related injuries often follow.

Backpacks often become too heavy for kids, as students carry laptops, textbooks and more.

Ebola has killed over 1,700 people in eastern Congo, marking the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.

Methodist Healthcare announced the acquisition of 18 Texas MedClinic urgent care facilities in San Antonio on Monday.

State health officials say two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan.

President Donald Trump's administration is planning to overhaul the Head Start program.

The second week of testimony in the trial of Lindsay Clancy has resumed with a focus on her mental state when she killed her three children in 2023.

In parts of the U.S. where venomous snakes are more common, training programs aim to protect pets from getting bitten.

Jurors have walked through the Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children.

A Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is rippling far beyond immigration courts.

Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face higher monthly costs in 2027.

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cleared a hurdle in the Senate.

First responders have given jurors firsthand accounts of what they found after Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to take her own life.

Ebola has killed over 1,500 people in eastern Congo, marking a 50% increase in about a week.

It’s been a choppy year for restaurants that lean into lettuce.

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo.

Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ugandan authorities have declared the country free of Ebola after the last patient was discharged in mid-June.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 3,200 cases.

Limited cattle imports from Mexico are set to resume through the Texas border after a yearlong shutdown aimed at stopping the spread of the New World Screwworm.

The Clinton Foundation has launched a new initiative to develop nonpartisan policy solutions with state and local governments.

A Massachusetts woman is on trial in a case where her lawyers argue that postpartum psychosis was the reason she killed her three children, aged 5 and younger.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to, and that has been adopted around the world.

Jet lag threatens to turn even a dream vacation into a slog.

Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo have gone on strike over payment issues, disrupting patient care.

Federal health officials have linked four more states to an outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite.

The U.S. has surpassed 2025’s record for measles cases, with five months left in 2026.

U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak involving the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.

Federal health advisers are recommending broader access to controversial chemicals called peptides.

More than 1,000 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, according to Africa’s top health body, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.

An Australian woman has given birth to identical quadruplet girls after a pregnancy doctors described as incredibly rare.

Venezuela says three people died of infections of hantavirus but stressed there has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission in the South American country, which has rarely reported cases of the rodent-borne disease in humans.

The Trump administration says it's deferring over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California because of suspected fraud and noncompliance.

A new report says the Trump administration’s disruptions to a global AIDS relief program have forced organizations to close clinics, lay off staff and cut services, seriously impeding efforts to prevent and treat the disease in dozens of countries.

Conflicts and disruptions to global energy markets could push millions more people into hunger by driving up fuel, fertilizer and food costs.

New estimates show road deaths are declining in the U.S. and globally.

Federal health officials have remained focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak despite inaccurate test results reported over the weekend.

Infants, toddlers and young children need outdoor activity to build strong bodies and minds, but they also require extra care in the heat.

Congo's health ministry says at least 930 people have died in the country's Ebola outbreak.

When the air is smoky from burning wildfires, health experts say to stay indoors.

Health workers in northern Nigeria say more children are relapsing into malnutrition and cite knock-on effects from the war in the Middle East.

Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. The California-based company said products with the potential to be contaminated with the diarrhea-causing parasite were shipped to 27 states including Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois.