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Former NFL star Chris Johnson reflects on ALS risk in public letter to his children

3:33 PM on Thursday, September 10

Chris Johnson has been to every major ALS clinic in the country and seen neurologists respond once they learn he played football

Health workers prepare to transfer the body of Abineno Justine, a 38-year-old woman who died of the Ebola virus, to a coffin ahead of her burial in Bunia, Congo, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Africa's top health body warns Congo’s Ebola outbreak is rapidly spreading beyond epicenter

2:46 PM on Thursday, September 10

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its epicenter, according to Africa's top health body

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump promises $500 Obamacare rebate checks for 1M enrollees in 30 states

10:58 AM on Thursday, September 10

The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to about 1 million ACA enrollees across 30 states

FILE - A pregnant woman stands for a portrait in Dallas, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America pledges $100M to cut US maternal mortality rate in half

9:16 AM on Thursday, September 10

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign launched by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, pledged $100 million Thursday to make childbirth safer in the U.S. The five-year plan aims to cut the maternal mortality rate in half by 2031

Workers install a copper pipe to replace a lead service line that brings drinking water to homes Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman)

The push to remove lead pipes is on. Thousands of water systems still don’t know where theirs are

9:13 AM on Thursday, September 10

Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water

Are too many Americans taking antidepressants?

8:49 AM on Thursday, September 10

Crew members have a briefing near one of the Chinook helicopters which will be used to help battle forest fires on Kalimantan Island, on the deck of Japanese tank landing ship JS Kunisaki after its arrival at Kijing Port in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia's Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze

3:10 AM on Thursday, September 10

A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Coroner releases details of infants who died amid growing Pennsylvania measles outbreak

5:26 PM on Wednesday, September 9

A Pennsylvania coroner confirms that the two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths

Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell says he is receiving treatment for cancer

3:00 PM on Wednesday, September 9

Rutgers men's basketball coach Steve Pikiell says he has been diagnosed with cancer after visiting doctors a few months ago when “not feeling 100%.”

Who Does the Best Gynecomastia Surgery in Bellevue?

11:00 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Kenyan nurses and other health workers demonstrate over low pay in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya's nurses end six-week strike after signing deal with government

10:47 AM on Wednesday, September 9

A 43-day nurses’ strike in Kenya that paralyzed public hospitals has ended after the government and the nurses’ union signed a return-to-work agreement

Americares' website sits open on a computer monitor in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

An unnamed donor responds to global aid cuts with a record gift for the nonprofit Americares

9:00 AM on Wednesday, September 9

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

FILE - Marc Overmars, left, shakes hands with Pavel Nedved at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, Friday, March 15, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, file)

Overmars resigns as Royal Antwerp sports director due to health issues

7:39 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Soccer great Marc Overmars is stepping down as Royal Antwerp's sports director due to health issues

Oscar Joaquín López, left, and his housemate Wilfredo Cisneros Duarte collect water from a street pipe in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The psychological toll of Cuba’s multiple crises is pushing many islanders to the breaking point

6:02 AM on Wednesday, September 9

The psychological toll of daily life in Cuba is pushing many to their breaking point on the Caribbean island of nearly 10 million people

FILE - Bottles of abortion pills mifepristone, left, and misoprostol, right, are displayed at a clinic in Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

An appeals court is considering a push to restrict most common abortion method

6:01 AM on Wednesday, September 9

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 woman takes care of her child while getting treatment for measles during the outbreak, in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Suspected measles cases kill nearly 1,000 as Bangladesh struggles to contain outbreak

5:38 AM on Wednesday, September 9

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

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