Health News

3:22 PM on Saturday, May 9

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Brandon Lockridge is relieved his right knee injury isn't worse

9:06 AM on Saturday, May 9

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans

8:04 AM on Saturday, May 9

A new survey finds about half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from social media influencers or podcasts

1:27 AM on Saturday, May 9

Jim Miller, a UFC veteran known for his durability, returns to the cage after a personal battle

9:08 PM on Friday, May 8

The Chicago Cubs have reinstated right-hander Ethan Roberts from the 15-day injured list, the same day manager Craig Counsell said reliever Hunter Harvey had a setback in his recovery from right triceps inflammation that has sidelined him for a month

7:31 PM on Friday, May 8

Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated cruise

5:47 PM on Friday, May 8

A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has sparked fear among Spanish passengers, not from illness, but from potential stigma upon returning home

5:39 PM on Friday, May 8

An attorney says the National Science Foundation has suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley, despite a court injunction restricting such suspensions

12:17 PM on Friday, May 8

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

10:29 AM on Friday, May 8

Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

9:01 AM on Friday, May 8

California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth

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3:41 AM on Friday, May 8

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

12:04 AM on Friday, May 8

U.S. immigration officials have quietly lifted a hold on green card and visa applications for doctors from three dozen countries

4:36 PM on Thursday, May 7

3:58 PM on Thursday, May 7

Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship

4:05 AM on Thursday, May 7

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24

8:24 AM on Wednesday, May 6