AP Health

The U.S. Department of Justice says Kentucky is likely violating federal law for failing to provide community-based services to adults in Louisville with serious mental illness

Ten-month-old Abdel-Rahman Abu El-Jedian is the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza and he's now paralyzed in the leg

A federal appeals court has rejected Tennessee’s attempt to collect millions of dollars in family planning funds without complying with federal rules requiring clinics to provide abortion referrals due to its current ban on the procedure

U.S. health officials say more than 20 people returning to the U.S. from Cuba had been infected with a virus transmitted by bugs

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be enforced while a legal challenge plays out

Africa's public health body is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases, with almost 4,000 reported on the continent in the last week

New Hampshire health authorities say a person infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died

A leading African scientist says the growing mpox outbreaks in Africa that triggered the World Health Organization’s emergency declaration are largely the result of decades of neglect and the global community’s inability to stop sporadic epidemics among a population with little immunity against the smallpox-related disease

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for Florida to enforce a ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Diseases spread by mosquitoes are in the spotlight again because of recent U.S. illnesses