Laura Ungar

Cesar Acevedo, left, holds his infant son, Adriel Acevedo, as as nurse Tracey McElroy, right, prepares to give him a vaccination that included a polio dose at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

April 13, 2025 at 8:49 a.m.

Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run...

A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez), File)

Measles is one of the world’s most contagious viruses. Here’s what to know and how to avoid it

April 10, 2025 at 9:52 a.m.

Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas.

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Pool via AP)

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here’s what you should know about the procedure

February 19, 2025 at 8:23 a.m.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aiming to reduce the costs of in vitro fertilization, a medical procedure that helps people facing infertility build their families.

FILE – A medical worker takes a swab sample from a worker of the China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) company during a round of COVID-19 tests in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province, Aug. 5, 2021. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

January 2, 2025 at 10:08 a.m.

The virus is still with us, though humanity has built up immunity through vaccinations and infections. It’s less deadly than it was in the pandemic’s early days and it no...

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Birth control and abortion pill requests have surged since Donald Trump won the election

November 25, 2024 at 6:31 p.m.

Hours after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, Dr. Clayton Alfonso had two messages from patients seeking to replace their IUDs. Over the next few days, three...

FILE – Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. A new survey puts a number to how often medical providers in states with laws that seek to protect them from prosecution are prescribing abortion pills to women in states with abortion bans or limits on prescribing the bills by telehealth. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Survey finds 8,000 women a month got abortion pills despite their states’ bans or restrictions

May 14, 2024 at 5:55 p.m.

Though their states severely restrict abortion or place limits on having one through telehealth, about 8,000 women per month late last year were getting abortion pills by mail from states...

Female doctor giving a vaccine of mature woman at home. Shot of general practitioner giving injection to senior woman at home. Female senior patient getting vaccinated during covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus vaccination concept.

Brecha de género contra covid: se vacunan más mujeres que hombres

April 12, 2021 at 7:59 p.m.

Mary Ann Steiner condujo dos horas y media desde su casa en University City, un suburbio de St. Louis, hasta la pequeña ciudad de Ozark, en Centerville, Missouri, para vacunarse...

A medida que las consecuencias financieras de COVID-19 han llevado el hambre infantil a niveles récord, Alexandra Sierra del Condado Bergen, en New Jersey, dice que no sabe qué haría su familia sin la comida que obtienen de una despensa local.

Los condados más ricos de EEUU, abrumados por el aumento del hambre infantil

March 23, 2021 at 3:23 p.m.

Alexandra Sierra llevaba cajas de comida a la encimera de su cocina, donde su hija de 7 años, Rachell, revolvía una jarra de limonada. "¡Dios mío, qué bien huele!". dijo...

Amy Donkersloot and her masked kindergarten class complete a worksheet Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, at St. Stanislaus School in Michigan City, Ind. This was the first week of school for many parochial school students in Michigan City. (Kelley Smith/The News Dispatch via AP)

Abundan fallas de seguridad contra el covid en escuelas de todo EEUU

January 27, 2021 at 9:19 p.m.

La profesora de informática Suzy Lebo vio los peligros de COVID-19 con frecuencia en su secundaria de Indiana: clases con aproximadamente 30 estudiantes sentados a menos de 18 pulgadas de...

The $10,092 that Matthew Fentress owed Baptist Health Louisville for a cardiac ablation procedure and various related doctor visits in 2019 and 2020 was more than a third of what his insurer paid for his care.

Moved by plight of young heart patient, stranger pays his hospital bill

October 9, 2020 at 7:31 p.m.

Even with insurance, Matthew Fentress faced a medical bill of more than $10,000 after a heart operation. A cook at a senior living community in Kentucky, he figured he could...

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