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Assistant Professor Christopher Hayes uses the heat of his finger to stimulate a colony of bedbugs in his office at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Bedbugs can cause people to lose sleep — and blood. Here's what to do about them

9:15 AM on Saturday, August 15

Bedbugs are on the rise and they tend to be at their worst at this time of year

Charlotte Touzalin stands with her mother, Anne Schultz, Friday, July 10, 2026 in Elizabeth, Colo. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Obesity drugs show early promise against the hormonal disorder PMOS, giving a suffering family hope

9:11 AM on Saturday, August 15

A small but growing body of research shows that GLP-1 drugs often used to treat obesity may also work for the hormonal disorder known as PMOS

Gédéon Banga Ngbape, left, an Ebola surveillance officer, does contact tracing in Nizi, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Exhausted health workers in Congo struggle to keep up as Ebola outpaces contact tracing

1:31 AM on Saturday, August 15

Gédéon Banga Ngbape and his team of community health workers are laboring tirelessly in eastern Congo to track the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak

Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote

8:55 PM on Friday, August 14

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel

FILE - A portrait of President Donald Trump is displayed at the Justice Department building in Washington, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Appeals court sides with Trump in fight over subpoena of gender-affirming care provider

4:25 PM on Friday, August 14

A federal appeals court says President Donald Trump’s goal of ending gender-affirming care is not improper and cannot be the basis for quashing a subpoena

FILE - The U.S. District Court building in Boise on Thursday, June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone, File)

A federal judge blocks Idaho from prosecuting doctors for health-protecting abortions

4:23 PM on Friday, August 14

A federal judge says Idaho can't prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect a pregnant person's health or prevent self-harm

FILE - Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (Benjamin B. Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, File)

A timeline of Luigi Mangione’s criminal cases in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

11:47 AM on Friday, August 14

Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson resolves one of two cases against him

One of the most common brain disorders is one of the most misunderstood – how functional neurological disorder is both ‘all in your head’ and beyond it

8:39 AM on Friday, August 14

Quitting alcohol changes the brain and can increase the risk of compulsive drinking – new research in mice

8:37 AM on Friday, August 14

People gather at the entrance of Yangon general hospital Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar faces rise in diarrhea as monsoon flooding continue to worsen in many parts of the country

8:12 AM on Friday, August 14

Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, is seeing a concerning rise in acute diarrhea cases, adding to the country's challenges with flooding and civil war

Aptevo Provides 2Q26 Business Update and Reports Second Quarter Financial Results

8:05 AM on Friday, August 14

In this courtroom sketch, Luigi Mangione, center, sits between his attorneys, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, left, and Marc Agnifilo, right, before pleading guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in New York. (Jane Rosenberg via AP)

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

12:04 AM on Friday, August 14

Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

A boy rides an e-bike in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Kids keep getting hurt and killed on e-bikes. Should parents be held responsible?

12:03 AM on Friday, August 14

As traumatic injuries and deaths continue to surge among the youngest e-bike riders, officials across the country are taking different paths to tackle a growing epidemic

Children's Medical Center is shown in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

What to know about a surrogacy dispute between a California couple, their surrogate and Texas courts

9:06 PM on Thursday, August 13

A surrogate who gave birth in Texas to a California couple's child is embroiled in a legal battle

Satou Sabally taking time away from the Liberty to continue to deal with concussion issues

7:51 PM on Thursday, August 13

Satou Sabally is taking time away from the New York Liberty according to coach Chris DeMarco to deal with lingering issues from a concussion she suffered over a month ago

Lindsay Clancy, during her murder trial, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026., in Plymouth, Mass. Josh Reynolds/Pool (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, Pool)

Before killing her kids, Lindsay Clancy searched about hallucinations, psychosis and ways to die

5:41 PM on Thursday, August 13

The trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy has turned to her search history about mental health concerns and medication side effects in the weeks before she strangled her three children in January 2023

How Nevada made big strides to keep kids with behavioral health issues out of institutions

5:06 PM on Thursday, August 13

Nevada officials report a significant decrease in children with behavioral health disabilities placed in institutional settings

Luigi Mangione attends a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo via AP)

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal case in UnitedHealthcare killing, AP source says

3:15 PM on Thursday, August 13

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a stunning development in a case that rattled business leaders while galvanizing their critics, according to a person familiar with the matter

FILE - Exterior views of the Central California Women's Facility prison in Chowchilla, Calif., on June 25, 2026. (Dan Hernandez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, file)

California prisons fail to stop guards from sexually abusing women, Justice Department finds

2:28 PM on Thursday, August 13

A federal investigation accuses California's prison system of failing to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse by guards

President Donald Trump speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, and Jayme Franklin listen during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump's vaccine plan would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago

6:24 AM on Thursday, August 13

The biggest obstacles to President Donald Trump’s order on vaccines may be the logistical challenges it poses for parents, health providers and drugmakers in the United States

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