Health

Wil Davenport in 2015. Wil Davenport hide caption toggle caption Wil Davenport The following story includes references to suicide. This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from …

People who exercise regularly have a greater capacity to store fat under the skin, which is better than storing it around organs like the liver and the heart. Arno Images/Getty …

Stephanie, who asked that only her first name be used, picks up her methadone prescription at the Operation PAR clinic in Inverness, Florida. Stephanie Colombini/WUSF hide caption toggle caption Stephanie …

Iron deficiency may affect many women, and it can lead to anemia, a condition that results in the body having too few healthy red blood cells. ktsdesign/Science Photo Library/Getty Images …

There’s an urgent need for treatment to help people addicted to cocaine and meth. One approach has decades of research showing it works but it’s hard to find.

Khadija Rahmani says her son, Mujib Ur Rahman, 12, looks forward to visits from Shabana Siddiqui, a health educator who left Afghanistan in 2022. The Rahmani family arrived in the …

A week after an unusual human case of H5 avian influenza was reported in Missouri, many questions remain. The latest on what’s known — and not known — about the …

AirPods are displayed during an announcement of new products at Apple headquarters on Sept. 9 in Cupertino, Calif. Juliana Yamada/AP hide caption toggle caption Juliana Yamada/AP Two years after federal …

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the Republican National Convention in July. She said Arkansas does not need “a duplicative program” to address its maternal mortality problems. Joshua Lott/The …

There’s one confirmed case. And likely hundreds more. As experts try to ID the source of the virus in Gaza, a huge vaccine effort has wrapped up stage 1 and …