White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer but plans to continue working through her treatment, retaining her place as one of President Donald Trump’s closest aides.

Climbing stairs has been increasingly ingrained in exercise guidance, but it can sometimes be hard to find a place to do it.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s kidney function has improved but he will remain in an intensive care unit because of pneumonia.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed weakening air pollution limits for a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment.

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well.

The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency.

Losing an hour of sleep as daylight saving time kicks in can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day — it also could harm your health.

A Connecticut city has joined hundreds of others around the country that have installed new firehouse alarm systems that aim to reduce firefighters' stress when calls come in.

Last year, President Donald Trump promoted unproven ties between Tylenol and autism and touted an old generic drug as a treatment for the developmental condition.

While the three-martini lunch seems improbable today, workplaces still can be boozy places.

President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state.

Experts say adults can help children cope with the latest conflict in the Middle East by making time for conversations, validating their feelings and limiting exposure to frightening or inaccurate information.

For Black people living with Tourette syndrome, a racial slur being shouted by someone with the disorder at the British Academy Film Awards has left them with complicated feelings.

Should marijuana users be able to own guns.

Social media is filled with influencers rating electrolyte supplements or even telling followers how to make their own.

Eddie Vedder uses two emotional solo concerts and a new Netflix film to push for a cure for epidermolysis bullosa.

European drug regulators are endorsing a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease.

Federal health data shows Black women are more than three times likely than white women to die around the time of childbirth.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

The United States signs a $1.2 billion health partnership with Congo that ties new funding to Congo spending more at home.

A Michigan mother is making and collecting soft, yarn toys that are being donated to the neonatal intensive care unit at a Detroit hospital.

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead.

Federal health officials say an infant botulism outbreak linked to recalled ByHeart baby formula is over.

The European Union has agreed to expand funding for citizens needing to leave their home countries to access safe abortions elsewhere in the 27-nation bloc.

The island of Jersey has voted to legalize assisted dying for some terminally ill adults, as a similar bill stalls in the U.K. Parliament.

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Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds.

Cyprus will vaccinate thousands of goats, sheep, hogs and cows to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped seal-watching tours to help limit the spread of the virus.

Wellness influencer and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of what she calls “reactive sick care” during her confirmation hearing to become the next surgeon general.