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Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard

Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency

This fall, hundreds of the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness in Vermont must leave state-funded motel rooms where they’ve been living as the state winds down its pandemic-era motel voucher program

As Senate Republicans block an IVF protection bill, ABC News takes a look at the numbers behind the surging costs of IVF access as more American families turn to fertility treatments.

The Los Angeles area is seeing more cases of people with dengue fever without traveling outside the United States, a year after the first such case was reported in California

The cases have doubled this year compared to last year, according to the CDC.

A longtime donor who has given more than $160 million to Tulane University is the new namesake of the university’s expanding school of public health

The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is banning the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky

Kentucky's governor has signed an executive order banning the use of 'conversion therapy'

Pakistani police say they have arrested the key suspect in the gang rape of a woman polio worker who was assaulted by three men during last week’s vaccination campaign

FIFA has teamed up with the World Health Organization for a campaign to educate the soccer industry about the risks of concussion injuries

A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty products

A drug dealer who sold a fentanyl-laced pill is liable for $5.8 million in the death of the woman to whom he sold it

The hallmarks of climate change — extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding — are being seen and felt around the globe. Drought in Brazil. Wildfires in Portugal, Peru and the Western U.S. Severe flooding swamping Central Europe, Southeast Asia and Western Africa. Multiple wildfires Firefighters across northern Portugal are working to contain some 100 wildfires caused by hot, dry conditions, stretching crews thin. Fires have forced residents to flee their homes and are blamed for the deaths of at least six people, including four firefighters. In Peru, wildfires have left at least 15 people dead since July and 22 of the nation's 24 regions have active outbreaks. Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service, SERFOR, says the effects of climate change are intensifying conditions that help spread fire. In Brazil, flames were burning through Brasilia National Park. And in California,...

The Miami Dolphins have placed Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve after the quarterback was diagnosed with his third concussion in two years

Dolphins place Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve, sidelining the QB for at least 4 games after his latest concussion

Vice President Kamala Harris says Donald Trump’s role in undoing national abortion rights is to blame for the death of Amber Thurman

In Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, many households have limited access to nutrient-rich foods due to rising costs and the impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems

Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue

The Jed Foundation and AASA, The School Superintendents Association, introduce District Comprehensive Approach program in nearly 500 U.S. schools to improve mental and emotional support for students.

Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is closing two of its offices in China, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic

New study offers first detailed map of the human brain during, after pregnancy.

Menopause is well-known for causing hot flashes and night sweats for many women

The U.N. says the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan

The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN says

Italy’s army is set to begin guarding medical staff in Calabria starting Monday

Gynecologist and women's health expert Dr. Jessica Shepherd discusses popular trends circulating on social media like a tampon study, "cortisol face" and mouth taping at night.

Kentucky's largest city has been praised for managing to raise childhood vaccination rates at a time when may places are trying to prevent further declines

A new abortion clinic has brought the debate over reproductive rights to a small college town in the southeast corner of Kansas

A new abortion clinic has brought the debate over reproductive rights to a small college town in the southeast corner of Kansas

The findings show that teenage girls were more affected than teenage boys, potentially impacting their mental health and even their behavior.

Time is running out for local governments to use billions of dollars of federal pandemic relief funds

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Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions is officially repealed

Walgreens agreed to pay $106 million to settle lawsuits that alleged it submitted false payment claims with government health care programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed

Nick Saban has a message for Tua Tagovailoa: Listen to experts, then decide what happens next

Nevada is joining a list of states easing access to abortion for more lower-income women

Boar’s Head is closing the Virginia plant tied to a deadly listeria outbreak

A federal bill has been proposed to ban in-game advertising and bets on college athletes

Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November

Nebraska has certified two ballot measures to legalize medical marijuana even though the state’s Republican attorney general says their supporters may have submitted at least several thousand invalid signatures

A political committee behind the campaign to pass a constitutional right to abortion in Florida has filed a lawsuit against a state health care agency that it alleges is carrying out a taxpayer-funded “misinformation” campaign against the November ball...

An Associated Press analysis has found that hospitals are rarely fined for violating a federal law that is supposed to guarantee that patients with medical emergencies get the treatment they need

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that competing measures that would expand or limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot

The Nebraska Supreme Court says competing measures to expand and limit abortion rights can appear on the November ballot

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media