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NPR Health · Aug 1, 2026 7:46 AM
NPR's Scott Simons asks University of Kentucky entomologist Stephen Dobson about mosquito control using modified mosquitoes released into the wild.
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NPR Health · Aug 1, 2026 7:14 AM
It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
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NPR Health · Aug 1, 2026 7:00 AM
The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry.
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NPR Health · Aug 1, 2026 5:00 AM
Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.
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PBS Health · Jul 31, 2026 6:35 PM
After years of battles over its use — and a long-running drought — states that rely on the Colorado River are facing the prospect of further cutbacks. Years of gridlock among the states prompted the federal government to step…
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PBS Health · Jul 31, 2026 6:15 PM
Changes are coming to the commonly used sell-by dates on groceries in at least one state. PBS News multiplatform reporter Tim McPhillips spoke to two experts to get their take on the food labels and how you can save both your…
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NPR Health · Jul 31, 2026 4:20 PM
What it's like on the on the frontlines of the public health investigation into cyclosporiasis, in Washtenaw County, Michigan, which just finished with a measles outbreak?
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NPR Health · Jul 31, 2026 10:44 AM
We asked our readers to tell us how they've fended off heat without the refrigerant blasts of an air conditioner. Here's what they shared.
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NPR Health · Jul 31, 2026 9:22 AM
Nebraska's Medicaid director, in an exclusive interview with nonprofit news organization Tradeoffs, said roughly 200 people will lose health coverage on Aug. 1.
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NPR Health · Jul 31, 2026 5:00 AM
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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BBC Health · Jul 30, 2026 8:26 PM
Just picked your holiday book? Our choices can subconsciously reveal important parts of our personality, studies show.
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PBS Health · Jul 30, 2026 4:43 PM
The long-running conflict in eastern Congo has driven nearly 10 million people into crisis or emergency levels of hunger, with Ituri — the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak — among the most affected with 1.9 million in need of…
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PBS Health · Jul 30, 2026 2:17 PM
It's been a choppy year for restaurants that lean into lettuce.
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PBS Health · Jul 30, 2026 12:48 PM
The testimony came a day after jurors listened to the anguished 911 call made by Clancy's then-husband.
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PBS Health · Jul 30, 2026 12:03 PM
Dr. Erica Schwartz's nomination to be director of the nation's top public health agency advanced on Thursday, setting aside concerns that she will not stand up to political meddling.
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BBC Health · Jul 30, 2026 7:10 AM
The UK is seeing a sharp rise in cases - 67 since April - with many of them among travellers returning from Mexico.
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PBS Health · Jul 29, 2026 8:42 PM
Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country's last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo.
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PBS Health · Jul 29, 2026 6:55 PM
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America's COVID response, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right before a Senate committee on Wednesday. The hearing, chaired by Republican Sen. Rand Paul, was meant to probe the origins of…
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