Italian health authorities are seeing evidence that rising temperatures and longer warm seasons are helping mosquitoes spread West Nile virus across a wider area, during more months of the year.

West African laboratory scientists are urging governments to strengthen their capacity to detect disease outbreaks to prevent another major crisis.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their ban on the medical use of donated blood.

Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue in decades, and the toll now includes a death.

The World Health Organization reports encouraging signs in the fight against an Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

At least 48 people have died after consuming a locally brewed alcoholic concoction in southern Nigeria’s Ondo state.

Thousands of people have gathered in Romania’s capital to set a Guinness World Record with a miles-long table made of recycled materials.

New blood tests are helping doctors diagnose whether Alzheimer’s or something else is causing a patient’s memory problems.

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has now spread to seven provinces in the country, local authorities said.

U.K. lawmakers have voted down a bill allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives.

U.S. health officials have declared the largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in the country's history over.

A panel of federal judges is considering Louisiana's assertion that mifepristone, a key drug in the most common abortion method in the U.S., should not be dispensed anywhere but a medical facility.

A new AP-NORC/USA Facts poll finds that Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in federal government information about elections, foreign affairs or the environment.

A major American aid group has promised to send more medicines to high-need areas around the world with the support of a record large donation.

Bangladesh is struggling to tackle a measles outbreak that has killed almost 1,000 children this year despite a renewed vaccination campaign.

The Trump administration named four officials to take over senior roles at the Food and Drug Administration, including the agency’s top leaders for drugs and vaccines.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Sept. 6 that Prime Line Distributors, Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Ferrarini USA, Inc., of Hoboken, N.J., are recalling approximately 1,513 pounds of ready-to-eat dry-cured pork jowl products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The ongoing outbreak of cyclospora tied to iceberg lettuce has raised new concerns about the safety of imported produce and underscores a worrisome trend: The U.S. is conducting fewer inspections to catch contaminated food.

U.S. ostrich farmers say they’re finding new customers who developed a red meat allergy triggered by tick bites.

The United States plans to phase out financial support for Namibia's HIV response programs.

Diagnosing endometriosis is often a challenge.

A fourth Florida resident has died from a Vibrio infection, this time in Broward County, as state health officials track 20 confirmed cases across Florida.

The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial has gone home without a verdict after a dramatic sixth day of deliberations.

Last week, a dozen more Central Florida eateries were forced to shut down (at least temporarily) after a visit from a health inspector, according to state records.

Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of more than 6,100 confirmed cases.

Nurse Razia Noreen had just checked on 15 newborns at the hospital in Pakistan's capital and was preparing injections when she saw flames through a window.

A new academic year has started across Congo despite concerns by parents and teachers that the Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicenter.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the school system in Kansas City, Kansas, over its policies on transgender students.