Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kan...

The Department of Health and Human Services had said, without providing evidence, that it was halting payments because it suspected the benefits were going to people in the country illegally...

Flu is surging across most of the U.S. But, amid an early, harsh season, there is a glimmer of promising news: The flu shot may be more effective than experts predicted...

Palestinian children injured in Israeli attacks on Al-Maghazi refugee camp brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on 5 November 2023...

Classic flu symptoms include fevers, body aches and extreme fatigue...

Palestinian boy Osama Al-Reqep, 5, lies on a bed at Nasser Hospital where he receives treatment, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine, May 1, 2025...

Displaced Palestinians receive meals distributed by a charity organization in the Nuseirat camp as the food crisis continues due to restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on December 13, 2025...

Donald Trump alongside representatives from various pharmaceutical companies at the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday finds that Covid vaccines continue to protect healthy children from severe illness - a conclusion top federal health officials have questioned in recent months...

Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a significantly greater risk...

More parents are refusing vitamin K shots for their newborns, a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association found...

The mental health of American adolescents is deteriorating at a pace experts describe as a national crisis, yet it remains largely overlooked in the media and academic discussions...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention`s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth...

A pharmacist holds boxs of Eli Lilly & Co...

FILE - People protest outside the White House in Washington, May 12, 2022...

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country...

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves after holding a news conference on the 6th day of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct...

Wounded Palestinians receive treatment at al-Shifa Hospital in Israeli-bombarded Gaza Strip...

A smoke plume erupts during Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023...

A medic transports a wounded child to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City late on November 5, 2023...

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers are walking out in a dispute over staffing levels...

A person walks past images of National Health Service (NHS) workers displayed on hoardings outside a temporary field hospital at St George’s Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in London, Britain, January 8, 2022...

A health worker inoculates a boy with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac against the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, at a vaccination centre in Bogota, Colombia, on January 4, 2022...

A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient at the intensive care unit of the Antoine Beclere hospital in Clamart, outside Paris, on December 23, 2021...

A sign advises people to wear a mask and stand 6 ft apart as travelers make their way through Miami International Airport on December 28, 2021 in Miami, Florida...

The World Health Organization’s Europe director, Dr Hans Kluge Some half a million more people could die in Europe from COVID-19 by March in the absence of urgent action, the World Health Organization warns...

The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday reported 218 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,473 samples tested in the last 24 hours...

The Ministry of Public Health on Monday reported 587 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,642 samples tested in the last 24 hours...

The Ministry of Public Health on Sunday reported 484 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,548 samples tested in the last 24 hours...

People stand in a queue as they wait to get a dose of the Covishield at a civil hospital in Jind, in the northern state of Haryana, India on June 1, 2021...

The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday announced that schools and universities in 16 provinces, including Kabul and Kandahar, will remain closed for two weeks to prevent the spread of COVID-19...

The Ministry of Public Health warns that the third wave of the coronavirus may reach its peak in the next ten days...

The Ministry of Public Health Sunday reported 114 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,402 samples tested in the last 24 hours...

Relatives of a mother with COVID-19 symptoms meet the newborn baby boy for the first time, at the Melgaco Municipal Hospital in the city of Melgaco, southwest of Marajo Island, state of Para, Brazil, on June 12, 2020 ...

Chicken sits on the shelf at a grocery store in Washington, DC...

Dr. Ahmad Jawad Osmani on Thursday was introduced as the acting minister of public health and he said in a press conference that he would bring reforms to the health sector...

Kate Holt at home in Kentmere, Cumbria, with her mother Shirley who she removed from a care home after becoming concerned for her health...

The public health minister of Afghanistan Ferozuddin Feroz has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the officials confirmed...

Iranian government unveils $260 million lifeline for health sector amid the coronavirus pandemic...

A bookstore employee explains safety instructions to a customers in Rome on April 20, 2020 after the Italian government decides the re-opening of certain commercial activities amid a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 disease caused by the novel coronavirus...

File photo shows Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (AFP photo) Republican US lawmakers have thrown their weight behind President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), insisting that unless its director general resigns Washington should not resume payments to the international body...

Volunteers from the county government spray pesticide on February 25, 2020 at a hatch site near the town of Isiolo, Isiolo county, eastern Kenya, where locust nymphs have hatched en masse...

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The Iranian knowledge-based company, Pishtaz Teb, can make 100,000 coronavirus test kits per week and plans to up that to more than 800,000 per month when it starts working around the clock...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland...

The Minister of Public Health Ferozuddin Feroz in a press conference on Tuesday cited estimates saying that half of the country’s population may become infected with COVID-19...

This handout illustration image obtained February 27, 2020 courtesy of the National Institutes of Health taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)-also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19-isolated from a patient in the US, emerging from the surface of cells (blue/pink) cultured in the lab...

China stepped up measures to contain a virus that has killed 25 people and infected more than 800, with public transport suspended in 10 cities, the shutting of temples and the rapid construction of a hospital to treat the infected...