Elaine Younger, 11, and Tahvion Williams, 14, right, load water in their family's van at the Newark Health Department in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday. Residents began picking up bottled water this week after elevated lead levels were found in homes...

Patients suffering from dengue fever sit covered with mosquito nets inside a gymnasium in the town of Maasin, Iloilo province, on July 18. (Leo Solinap/EPA-EFE) The Philippines Department of Health on Tuesday declared the country's outbreak of dengue to be...

The Trump administration's proposal would allow states, wholesalers and pharmacists to get FDA approval to import certain medications from Canada that are also available in the U.S. (Chris Wattie, File/Reuters) The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday it...

Bayer is facing cancer-related lawsuits over its Roundup weed killer from more than 13,400 plaintiffs across the United States. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion US jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who...

Congo's Health Minister Oly Ilunga had been opposed to introducing another experimental vaccine. (Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro/The Associated Press) Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, resigned on Monday in protest over the presidency's announcement last week that it was stripping his team...

The Louvre Museum has removed the Sackler family name from its Oriental Antiquities gallery. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) France's Louvre Museum in Paris has become the first major institution to remove the Sackler family name after protests erupted against the...

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear enters the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) at the Ebola treatment centre in Beni, eastern Congo, in March. (Baz Ratner/Reuters) Unidentified attackers killed two Ebola health workers in eastern Congo over the weekend, the...

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear enters the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) at the Ebola treatment centre in Beni, eastern Congo, in March. (Baz Ratner/Reuters) Unidentified attackers killed two Ebola health workers in eastern Congo over the weekend, the...

A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear enters the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) at the Ebola treatment centre in Beni, eastern Congo, in March. (Baz Ratner/Reuters) Ebola's arrival in eastern Congo's main city of Goma severely raises the risk...