Health

Aid groups aim to avoid polio outbreak in Gaza through mass vaccination plan

By Fatma Khaled, Associated Press

Health workers in Gaza are gearing up for a mass vaccination campaign to begin at the end of August and continue into September with the goal to immunize 640,000 children under the age of 10 over two rounds of vaccinations,…

The U.S. is seeing a summer COVID-19 surge, but hospitalizations remain low

By Associated Press

COVID-19 is showing up in a lot of wastewater samples, but doctors' offices aren't seeing an outsized share of people with symptoms of respiratory illness.

Wildfires are growing under climate change, and the smoke is threatening farmworkers, new study says

By Dorany Pineda, Associated Press

A new study shows that farmworkers are paying a heavy price by being exposed to high levels of air pollution.

Sweden reports 1st case of more infectious form of mpox first identified in Congo

By Associated Press

WHO said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths in more than a dozen countries across Africa this year, which already exceed last year’s figures.

5 people, including 2 doctors, charged in ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry’s death

By Andrew Dalton, Kaitlyn Huamani, Associated Press

Perry died in October due to a ketamine overdose and received several injections of the drug on the day he died from his live-in personal assistant.

Here’s a list of drugs affected by Biden’s latest Medicare pharmaceutical price cuts

By Associated Press

The savings range from 79 percent for Januvia, a drug to treat diabetes, to 38 percent for Imbruvica, which is used to treat blood cancers.

WATCH: Biden and Harris announce deal to cut Medicare prices of popular drugs

By Amanda Seitz, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

“I've been waiting for this moment for a long long time," President Joe Biden said Thursday, during his first policy-oriented appearance with Vice President Kamala Harris since leaving the presidential race. “We pay more for prescription drugs, it’s not hyperbole,…

Voter pamphlet on Arizona abortion measure can refer to fetus as ‘unborn human being,’ court rules

By Sejal Govindarao, Associated Press

The proposed amendment would allow abortions until a fetus could survive outside the womb, typically around 24 weeks, with exceptions to save the mother’s life or to protect her physical or mental health.

Arizona and Missouri are the latest states to add abortion amendments to the ballot. What would the measures do?

By Geoff Mulvihill, Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

Voters in more than a half-dozen states will be deciding abortion measures this fall. The proposals are likely to drive up voter turnout, potentially affecting elections for president, Congress, governor and other state offices.

Mpox outbreaks in Africa declared global health emergency by WHO as new form of virus spreads

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press

The World Health Organization has declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency. Cases are confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries, and a new form of the virus is spreading.