An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said his leg grew purple and ...Read more

For a long time, the likelihood of surviving pancreatic cancer has been extremely low. For patients who were diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer between 2015 and 2021, about 97% died within five years of their diagnosis.

Pancreatic cancer is so deadly in part because there are no effective screening tests, and it rarely causes...Read more

Ebola is a diabolical disease. The virus, which can cause severe hemorrhaging, spreads through blood and other bodily fluids. Patients, as they grow sicker, become a ticking bomb, endangering anyone compassionate enough to provide hands-on care. I saw it firsthand while responding to the two largest Ebola outbreaks in history with the U.S. ...Read more

Facing higher premiums and the loss of federal subsidies, 374,000 people with health insurance from the state marketplace known as Covered California canceled their coverage in the first three months of the year, according to government statistics.

The cancellations amount to 19% of those who had renewed their policies on the state marketplace ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Annamarie McDonald has long wanted to have three children.

To do so, though, the 36-year-old and her husband needed some medical help. After multiple rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), they now are thankful parents of a 2-month-old daughter, with embryos remaining.

But they also have a $60,000 home equity loan that they ...Read more

A Kenyan high court instructed the authorities to disclose details of an agreement with the U.S. government to establish an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation.

Judge Patricia Nyaundi ordered the publication of the “full terms of any agreement, memorandum, arrangement or negotiations relating to the proposed facility,” ...Read more

Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of federal subsidies that helped people buy Obamacare plans.

Under federal law, immigrants who are in the country illegally are not eligible for ...Read more

When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

The 59-year-old retired teacher, who recently moved from Ohio to Michigan, now pays $341 a month for a pair of plans, one that covers routine and urgent care and ...Read more

A U.S.-funded Ebola isolation facility under construction in Kenya became the focus of protests after a court temporarily blocked the project pending a review of its potential health risks.

President William Ruto’s administration will build the facility at a U.S. airforce base 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi, the ...Read more

A father is worried about his toddler, who has been running a fever for two days and pulling at one ear. A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their phones and type their symptoms into an AI chatbot.

“Your child likely has an ear infection,” the father...Read more

Kenya will proceed with a plan to establish an Ebola isolation and treatment complex at a military facility with U.S. government funding, even after a court temporarily blocked the move.

President William Ruto’s administration will build the facility at a U.S. airforce base 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi, the Health...Read more

Pediatricians often watch for signs that one illness might signal another. One example of linked health issues is the allergic march, a pattern that affects many babies and children worldwide.

The allergic march -- also called the atopic march -- is a chain of health problems that typically happen one after the other. All may have common roots ...Read more

The world is not “well prepared” for the next pandemic, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, citing the current response to the Ebola outbreak and cuts to U.S. public health efforts.

“This Ebola outbreak is not going to cause a pandemic, it’s not going to cause a significant risk to large ...Read more

It’s increasingly common to see headlines and social media conversations about the rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults. In fact, the growing incidence of colorectal cancer in people under age 50 helped drive the American Cancer Society’s 2018 decision to recommend lowering the recommended age for average-risk screening from 50 ...Read more

As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to rein in a growing outbreak of a rare Ebola virus, other countries are establishing protocols for keeping their own populations safe.

As of May 27, 2026, Congo has reported more than 1,000 suspected and confirmed cases, and more than 250 deaths, according to the U.S. ...Read more

A Kenyan high court temporarily blocked the government from approving a deal with the U.S. to establish an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation after a human rights group said the plan posed “grave health risks” to the public.

The planned Ebola complex “is being undertaken in a manner that is not transparent and is devoid ...Read more

The common sugar-free sweetener sorbitol may damage your liver in the same way as the older sweetener fructose, researchers found, triggering processes linked to fatty liver disease in people without a history of drinking alcohol.

“The most surprising finding from the current work is that because sorbitol is essentially ‘one transformation ...Read more

Lawmakers in both parties are increasingly embracing the idea of price controls on medicines — and in doing so, they’re making a losing bet.

Price controls involve a fundamental tradeoff: lower prices today in exchange for less innovation tomorrow. Consider the “most favored nation,” or MFN, drug pricing proposal currently before ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With cuts to HIV and AIDS programs looming from President Donald Trump’s administration, advocates are pressing Illinois lawmakers to fill a growing void or face a situation for which they say the state is unprepared.

It’s a “life or death situation,” Timothy Jackson, senior director of policy and advocacy at AIDS ...Read more