ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is seeing a rising number of premature births, emergency cesarean sections and other pregnancy complications. Some areas near the front lines have seen …
A rising number of babies are being born prematurely in Ukraine, particularly in regions near the front lines. In some areas, rates have nearly doubled since the war started with Russia’s invasion …
Health workers inside Mongbwalu, the epicenter of Congo's outbreak, say they are working with little pay or rest. The mining town attracts a huge number of laborers for large gold mines who live in …
Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died. His son, also named Robert Coles, says his father passed away at 97 at a hospice center in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Thursday. The …
There is not a single proper toilet across the vast tent cities housing most of Gaza’s 1.7 million Palestinians left homeless by the war. Displaced families have largely been left on their own to …
Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread. Traders are frustrated as their goods, including plantains and fish, risk spoiling in long truck queues. The …
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a lung transplant list due to worsening pulmonary fibrosis. Diagnosed in 2018, the disease damages and scars lung tissue, causing serious …
Wearing earplugs at concerts can help prevent hearing damage. Starting at around 85 decibels, hearing can be damaged with prolonged listening. The louder the noise, the less time it takes to hurt …
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned that a new factory isn’t expected to start work for more than a year on mitigating the New World screwworm fly infestation in his state. The factory breeds …
Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. Scientists will trap and test rats in Mendoza while awaiting lab results from Ushuaia, authorities said Friday. …
The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow the spread. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: Hundreds of detainees across at least 33 states allege in federal lawsuits that immigration detention facilities failed to provide them adequate medical care by denying …
The death toll from a fire at an unregistered nursing home in western Sri Lanka has risen to 13. The fire swept through the home in Anguruwatota on Wednesday, initially killing 12 residents. On …
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report the deaths of detainees who have been released from custody, in a change that could obscure the human cost of the Trump administration's mass …
A radio show in Congo is trying to battle misinformation around an ongoing Ebola outbreak. Radio Télévision Mont Bleu station in Bunia has launched a program that has become a vital tool to win …
Aaron Judge is out of the lineup for a third straight game and the New York Yankees are awaiting clarity about a bone bruise in one of the slugger’s right ribs that is causing right shoulder pain. …
Milwaukee relievers DL Hall and Grant Anderson both left with injuries during the Brewers’ 12-9 loss to the San Francisco Giants. Brewers manager Pat Murphy told reporters after the game that Hall …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it suspects that the the New World screwworm fly has arrived in south Texas. If the case announced Wednesday is confirmed, it would mark the …
A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog. Thursday's study finds that between 2003 and 2015, the US national average smog …
Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women. This …