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The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits the Zika virus, which is expected to spread to all countries in the Americas except Canada and Chile, the World Health Organization has said.

Why U.S. is so vulnerable to alarming spread of Zika

March 27, 2019 at 7:13 p.m.

With the Zika virus now circulating in two dozen countries and territories across the Americas, the mosquito-borne pathogen seems destined to reach the United States, and likely sooner rather than...

Dr. Zachary Rubin, associate clinical professor of infectious diseases at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, speaks during a Feb. 19, 2015, news conference outside the hospital addressing concerns about patients infected by a superbug during medical scope procedures.

Tainted medical scopes that killed 2 in Chicago area have sickened hundreds in U.S., Europe: Senate probe

June 11, 2018 at 4:24 a.m.

The number of patients harmed by contaminated medical scopes in recent years far exceeds previous estimates from federal regulators, according to findings in a Senate health committee report published this...

Prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J.

Prescription drug prices jumped more than 10 percent in 2015, analysis finds

June 11, 2018 at 8:00 a.m.

Drug prices were big news in 2015, thanks in large part to "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli, who drew outrage for hiking the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent....

In a Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter answers questions during a news conference at a Habitat for Humanity building site, in Memphis, Tenn.

Jimmy Carter says latest brain scan shows no cancer

August 21, 2019 at 6:04 p.m.

Former president Jimmy Carter began his 10 a.m. Sunday school classes as he so often does: with a short update on his health. He stood before 300-some people - a...

How an $84,000 drug got its price: ‘Let’s hold our position … whatever the headlines’

June 16, 2018 at 10:37 a.m.

Gilead Sciences executives were acutely aware in 2013 that their plan to charge an exorbitantly high price for a powerful new hepatitis C drug would spark public outrage, but they...

Cancer charities bilked donors out of $187 million, government says

June 21, 2019 at 3:55 a.m.

A group of four cancer philanthropies bilked donors across the country out of $187 million, the Federal Trade Commission charged Tuesday in what the agency called one of the largest...

Why you crave junk food after smoking marijuana

August 19, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

Researchers from Yale University believe they have deciphered the neurological mechanism that causes the "munchies," that inexplicable urge to eat that has led generations of marijuana users to consume untold...

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