Health

Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visits health workers at the Evangelical Medical Centre (CEM) in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 31, 2026. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide …

School children walk through the shallows past submerged and abandoned school buildings at the El Molo Bay primary school in Komote, Kenya. Teachers at the school say the buildings have …

Healthcare workers participate in a simulation exercise in Uganda, practicing how to conduct a safe and dignified burial for a deceased Ebola patient. Leonard Musinguzi hide caption toggle caption Leonard …

This undated microscope image from USC via the NIH shows pancreatic cancer cells, nuclei in blue, growing as a sphere encased in membranes, red. Min Yu/AP/USC via NIH hide caption …

Marketers sell all kinds of tests and supplements to fix your gut health. But is any of this actually worth spending money on?

Congolese police stand guard at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo that was attacked by local villagers. Efforts are underway to defuse the anger that has …

July 1, 2025. Sirajganj, Bangladesh Mothers who lacked birth certificates for themselves and family members hold up the newly obtained documents after a drive in Dhamainagar Union, part of a …

The U.S. plans to try to keep Ebola out by keeping citizens who were potentially exposed in Kenya. This has some in Kenya frustrated and others worried it will deter …

A health worker in protective equipment carries out safe burial procedures beside the coffin of a suspected Ebola victim outside a family home in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of …

The American Cancer Society is changing its screening recommendations for colorectal cancer, suggesting adults begin screening at age 45 and adding blood-based tests as an option.