Health

Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection has announced its first human case of B virus in a rare incidence of a virus being transmitted from animals to humans. The centre...

Anna Paquin used a cane while walking the red carpet with husband Stephen Moyer for a New York film premiere. Paquin, who was at the premiere of her new film,...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday by Brazil’s...

The World Health Organisation has condemned Israel for destroying Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokesman, said on Tuesday that the hospital complex was now completely destroyed. “Destroying Al-Shifa...

The Food and Drug Administration is facing backlash over its approval of a genetic test intended to determine if a person is at increased risk for opioid addiction.  The test,...

A mandatory “structural racism” class at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA led a prayer to Mother Earth, which disturbed some who attended the lecture.  The UCLA Jewish...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults are twice as likely as their non-LGBTQ counterparts to report having had negative health care experiences over the last three years, according to...

Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said a year after he received treatment for depression that at the time, he thought his career could be over. “When I decided to...

Chick-fil-A is the latest restaurant chain in the United States to drop its promise of “no antibiotics ever” in its chicken products. Several major companies, such as Tyson Foods, had...

After losing his wife to colon cancer, a New York man has dedicated his life to fighting the disease and trying to protect other families from the same tragedy. Roy...