The toll of wildfires is usually counted in acres burnt, property destroyed and lives lost to smoke and flames. But...
Articles by Mike Stobbe
AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A...
U.S. health officials last Friday announced a recall of some Boar’s Head liverwurst and deli meats as they investigate a...
A Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu — the second human case associated with an outbreak in...
The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first...
The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which...
The nation’s top public health agency has proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors...
U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down with a serious...
Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported...
U.S. drug overdose deaths had been most common in Appalachia and other rural areas in recent years, but they are...