Health News

2:34 AM on Monday, May 18

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released from the hospital after more than two weeks

4:24 PM on Sunday, May 17

A group of people watches three albino rats leap from small baskets into a big cage at an indoor hall in the Argentine capital

11:13 AM on Sunday, May 17

Canada's national health agency confirms that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive

6:05 AM on Sunday, May 17

Parents with newborns in intensive care units have long faced a difficult but overlooked plight: Any parental leave they might have does not take into account the days or even months their newborns spend in intensive care

6:05 AM on Sunday, May 17

Parents with newborns in intensive care units have long faced a difficult but overlooked plight: Any parental leave they might have does not take into account the days or even months their newborns spend in intensive care

9:38 PM on Saturday, May 16

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

8:33 PM on Saturday, May 16

Houston Dynamo defender Diadie Samassekou was taken off the field by ambulance after suffering an apparent head injury against Vancouver on Saturday night

3:10 PM on Saturday, May 16

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises

2:09 PM on Saturday, May 16

Canadian officials have reported that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has a “presumptive positive” test result

9:07 AM on Saturday, May 16

France’s Pasteur Institute has fully sequenced the Andes virus found in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship

7:00 AM on Saturday, May 16

5:50 AM on Saturday, May 16

Deciding when to get a routine mammogram is confusing

4:00 AM on Saturday, May 16

Authorities say at least 87 people have died in Congo’s new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province

9:28 PM on Friday, May 15

The Food and Drug Administration's top drug official is leaving in the latest shake-up at the powerful health agency

3:19 PM on Friday, May 15

Texas Rangers second baseman Josh Smith is expected to be hospitalized for at least a week to be treated for viral meningitis

1:42 PM on Friday, May 15

New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried will be sidelined for at least two weeks and perhaps longer because of a left elbow bone bruise

1:15 PM on Friday, May 15

11:05 AM on Friday, May 15

A Kansas judge has protected access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors as the nation’s largest children’s hospital moved to restrict such care in Texa and buckled under pressure from the Trump administration

9:04 AM on Friday, May 15

Health authorities say there is a new Ebola outbreak in the Central African country of Congo, with more than 300 suspected cases and at least 88 deaths

10:26 PM on Thursday, May 14

Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks