AP Health

New Zealand, whose pandemic response was closely …

Top AP Health Headlines

Maui officials and scientists warn that after the flames …

Makalea Ahhee, left, tears up while her husband, JP Mayoga, right, a chef at the Westin Maui, Kaanapali, stand on their balcony at the hotel and resort, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023, near Lahaina, Hawaii. About 200 employees are living there with their families in the resort. Officials urge tourists to avoid traveling to Maui as many hotels prepare to house evacuees and first responders on the island where a wildfire demolished a historic town and killed dozens of people. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

More states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls …

FILE - A flag supporting LGBTQ+ rights decorates a desk on the Democratic side of the Kansas House of Representatives during a debate, March 28, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Children are heading back to classes and fall sports practices, and four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls sports teams. Kansas, North Dakota and Wyoming had new laws restricting transgender athletes in place before classes resumed, and a Missouri law takes effect at the end of this month. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy may raise risk of …

Jakarta is the world’s most polluted city. Blame the dry …

Haze blankets the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. Dry season and exhaust emission from motorized vehicles are the main causes of the air pollution in Jakarta, Indonesian authorities said Friday as the capital city became one of the world's most polluted cities according to Swiss air quality technology company IQAir. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Dengue outbreak in Bangladesh sparks alarm after 364 people …

A man attends to his wife who is being treated for dengue at Mugda Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Family of Henrietta Lacks files new lawsuit over cells …

FILE - Attorney Ben Crump, second from left, walks with Ron Lacks, left, Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, both grandsons of Henrietta Lacks, and other descendants of Lacks, outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Oct. 4, 2021. The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells. Their federal lawsuit in Baltimore claimed Thermo Fisher Scientific has made billions from tissue taken without the Black woman’s consent from her cervical cancer tumor. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, file)

More AP Health

US suicides hit an all-time high last year

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, a man walks along a trail during sunset near Manhattan, Kan. In 2022, about 49,500 people took their own lives in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Romanian care homes scandal spotlights abuse described …

In this image released on July 27, 2023 by the the Center of Legal Resources Romania, a bed is placed in a bathroom at a care home in in the village of Bardesti in the central Romanian Mures County. The Centre for Legal Resources, or CLR, which conducted an unannounced inspection of the home, found alarming levels of neglect and abuse, saying that, on top of 23 residents inside the main building, seven more were found living in appalling conditions in a dingy basement beneath. Four of the residents who had severe disabilities, they said, were "lying on mattresses soiled with feces, urine, and blood." (Center of Legal Resources via AP)

Millions struggle to pay AC bills in heat waves. …

Bobbie Boyd stands outside her apartment Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Fayetteville, Ark. On a fixed income, Boyd sacrifices meals, health care, and car insurance among other necessities to pay rent and keep cool in the midst of this summer's prolonged heat waves. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 90, falls at home and goes …

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee following a more than two-month absence, at the Capitol in Washington, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Gunmen attack police guarding polio team in northwest …

Mexico shutters 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast …

FILE - Tourists hang out on the Gaviota Azul beach in Cancun, Mexico, March 2, 2010. A four-day inspection raid targeting drugstores in Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulu resulted in the shuttering of 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a report warned that the drug stores were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet and Adderall without prescriptions, the Navy Department said Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Israel Leal, File)

West Virginia’s capital officials reject abortion …

Iris Sidikman, harm reduction coordinator at the Women's Health Center of West Virginia, holds fentanyl testing strips the clinic has on hand to give people dealing with substance use disorder in the clinic parking lot on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)