Lauren Dunn

Residents who breathed contaminated air or searched the rubble without protective equipment may have been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals such as asbestos and lead.

Hospitals are supposed to be safe havens during times of war, but attacks against hospitals and health care facilities in conflict zones are becoming more common worldwide, human rights experts say. During the first week of the war between Israel and Hamas, there were 94 attacks on health care facilities in Israel and Gaza, which killed 29 health care workers and injured 24, according to the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, or SHCC, a human rights advocacy group. “The number of atta…

Adnan Sawada was at work in Maryland on Oct. 17 when he got a frantic phone call from thousands of miles away in Gaza. It was his 36-year-old nephew calling with devastating news. His father, Adnan’s oldest brother, had just died at a Gaza hospital. “His son was screaming,” Adnan said in a phone interview. “They got to him too late.” Shaaban Sawada, Adnan’s brother, is one of the countless Gaza residents who were injured in airstrikes but were then unable to receive the care they needed at the e…

After Alabama’s state Supreme Court ruling on IVF, doctors are warning that women using in vitro fertilization and their babies could face major health risks — and young cancer patients could lose the chance to build a future family — if fertility clinics stop using frozen embryos. “That is a possible reality,” said Dr. Irene Dimitriadis, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at the Mass General Fertility Center in Boston. “It hurts me to think of it because that means we’re…

The increase comes as the average number of abortions per month in the U.S. is also rising, according to new research.

The hallucinogen has grown in popularity in recent years as an off-label treatment for depression, but experts say it can be addictive and must be used in a controlled setting.

What to know about vitamin A and the measles

Life-threatening virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea at high levels in the U.S., CDC says

Symptoms of the virus can take from two to eight weeks to develop and it’s possible more of the nearly 150 passengers aboard the cruise ship could be infected, experts say.

As cases and deaths continue to mount, teams on the ground are scrambling to contain what they feel is like a growing wildfire.