Since April is alcohol awareness month, it’s a good time to shine a light on a program that is changing and saving lives right here in South Florida.

Preliminary data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. has seen 8,485 cases of whooping cough in 2025.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

With the world awash in stress and anxiety, nature can be the perfect spring antidote.

The evidence is anecdotal, but psychologists and flight attendants say they are seeing and hearing increased worries about flying.

A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F.

A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.

The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of food and drug safety inspections throughout the world.

A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation’s top health agency, eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap for more mass firings.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last few years.

Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers.

Arkansas has enacted a law making it the first state banning pharmacy benefit managers from owning a pharmacy in the state.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition.

The World Health Organization's member countries have agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis.

Health secretary Robert F.

Experts tend to focus on the kinds of foods you can eat to improve your health.

Waste from coal plants was one of the Trump administration's recent deregulatory targets.

A key vaccine advisory committee is meeting for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts.

A company that makes baby food for Target is recalling more than 25,000 packages of a product because it may contain elevated levels of lead.

Newly released federal statistics show an estimated 1 in 31 U.S. children have autism, marking another jump in a long string of increases.

Officials in Arkansas and Indiana are moving to ban soft drinks and candy from the program that helps low-income people pay for groceries.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

A new study has found that fewer people crossed state lines for abortions in 2024 than the previous year.

An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.

A man has been arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters after threatening violence.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to provide $2.8 billion to close the budget hole in the state's Medicaid program.

Many people involved in the abortion debate say a movement of so-called abortion abolitionists who want to punish women for having abortions is widening its influence.