Health

BASANKUSU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — On the Texas border, Dr.

MONTREAL — Alison Steel was a young child when her mother was sent to Dr.

Manal Elfakhani looks back fondly on childhood memories from the month of Ramadan . She would break her fast at the mosque with family and snack on sweet semolina flour cookies that she's since learned to bake herself.

TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — Measures in several state legislatures this year have called for new approaches to weaken the power of judges. One would abandon a centuries-old precedent that courts can decide whether laws are constitutional.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democratic Gov.

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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas , state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable — respiratory disease since 2015.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors said Wednesday his prognosis is still guarded.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans' health services, lawmakers and veterans service organizations s