Health News

5:42 AM on Monday, June 1

Congolese authorities say there are now at least 282 confirmed cases of Ebola in its ongoing outbreak

5:00 AM on Monday, June 1

4:51 AM on Monday, June 1

Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base

12:38 AM on Monday, June 1

Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions at a psychiatric hospital near Paris

8:05 AM on Sunday, May 31

New research shows a novel pill is helping people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer

7:09 AM on Sunday, May 31

The World Health Organization reports that five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus in eastern Congo

9:30 PM on Saturday, May 30

Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop

9:05 AM on Saturday, May 30

8:17 AM on Saturday, May 30

Postpartum depression is a potentially dangerous condition that can fill a typically joyous time with despair

6:32 AM on Saturday, May 30

The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly

12:14 AM on Saturday, May 30

For many in Congo and elsewhere in Central and West Africa, there is no shame in craving wild meat, a key part of the culture

11:13 PM on Friday, May 29

Donald Trump’s physician says the president is in “excellent health” and is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief after a medical exam Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

9:18 PM on Friday, May 29

President Donald Trump is giving his endorsement to a January study by the Department of Health and Human Services that calls for cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every American child

4:36 PM on Friday, May 29

The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year

4:05 PM on Friday, May 29

1:07 PM on Friday, May 29

The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some developers are getting closer

5:07 AM on Friday, May 29

The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an Ebola outbreak

3:36 AM on Friday, May 29

A court in Kenya has suspended a U.S. plan to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to a rare Ebola virus in northeastern Congo

1:01 AM on Friday, May 29

A Canadian man accused of running an online operation selling lethal products in more than 40 countries has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of counseling or aiding suicide

7:00 AM on Friday, May 15

The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency