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Brazil confirms first coronavirus case in Latin America

Brazil's government has confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in Latin America

10:25AM ( 51 minutes ago )

Globe braces for long battle against virus as cases spread

The fight against the new virus is continuing, with crews scrubbing everything from money to buses and quarantines in effect in places from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to an uninhabited island in the Pacific

10:14AM ( 1 hour ago )

By The Associated Press

Italy seeks to calm fears in Europe as cases, deaths rise

Italy is seeking to calm fears and rally international support for its efforts to contain the country's virus outbreak even as its death toll rose to 12 and its caseload reached 374

9:28AM ( 1 hour ago )

By The Associated Press

Iran raises its death toll to 19 amid 139 coronavirus cases

Iranian state television says 19 people have been killed by the new coronavirus amid 139 confirmed cases in the country so far

7:49AM ( 3 hours ago )

By The Associated Press

Generic drugmakers sold most opioids during overdose crisis

The maker of OxyContin is often seen as the key villain in the opioid crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, but makers of generic drugs shipped far more of the powerful prescription painkillers

7:00AM ( 4 hours ago )

By The Associated Press

German with virus in grave condition; Austria probes death

Authorities in western Germany said Wednesday that a man who contracted COVID-19 is in critical condition

5:39AM ( 5 hours ago )

By The Associated Press

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Peugeot maker sees record profit, but virus clouds horizon

Peugeot maker PSA Group says it has lost 700 million euros in China despite record profits last year

5:35AM ( 5 hours ago )

2nd virus death in France, 1 new infection linked to Italy

A 60-year-old Frenchman has died of the new virus in a Paris hospital, the second virus-related death in France since it emerged in China last year

4:44AM ( 6 hours ago )

German authorities say man with virus in critical condition

Authorities in western Germany said Wednesday that a man who contracted COVID-19 is in critical condition

4:16AM ( 7 hours ago )

AP Health Archive

Health and Medicine

Dems thwart Senate Republicans on 2 abortion-related bills

Senate Democrats have blocked a pair of Republican bills that would ban most late-term abortions and threaten prison for doctors who don't try saving the life of infants born alive during abortions

5:42PM ( 17 hours ago )

Senate GOP again thwarted on bills to restrict abortion

Senate Democrats have blocked a pair of Republican bills that would ban most late-term abortions and threaten prison for doctors who don't try saving the life of infants born alive during abortions

5:01PM ( 18 hours ago )

US appeals court upholds Trump rules involving abortions

A U.S. appeals court has upheld Trump administration rules that bar health care providers in the federal family planning program for low-income women from referring patients for abortions

5:37PM ( 1 day ago )

AP Health - Women's health Archive

Women's Health

Childress, Demon Deacons stun No. 7 Duke 113-101 in 2OT

Brandon Childress shook off an awful shooting start, hit a tying 3-pointer late in regulation and helped Wake Forest stun seventh-ranked Duke 113-101 in double overtime

11:34PM ( 11 hours ago )

Haiti health workers say 13 children died in residence fire

Health care workers say a fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit group, killing 13 children

1:26PM ( 1 week ago )

UK man linked to virus spread thanks doctors for recovery

A businessman from England who contracted the new virus from China has thanked Britain’s National Health Service after he recovered

8:29AM ( 2 weeks ago )

AP Health - Children's Health Archive

Children's Health

Japan: 2 former cruise ship passengers with virus have died

Japan's health ministry says two elderly passengers taken off the Diamond Princess cruise ship with the new virus have died, becoming the first fatalities from the virus-stricken vessel

11:15PM ( 6 days ago )

Japan says 2 former cruise ship passengers died from virus

Japan's health ministry confirms that two elderly passengers taken off the Diamond Princess cruise ship have died from the new virus, becoming the first fatalities from the virus-stricken vessel

11:04PM ( 6 days ago )

Virus infects more than 1,700 health workers in China, 6 die

A Chinese health official says more than 1,700 medical workers have been infected by the new virus and six have died

8:49AM ( 1 week ago )

AP Health - Senior Health Archive

Senior Health

Medicaid bought sex offenders' erectile dysfunction drugs

New York's publicly funded Medicaid program paid for $63,000 worth of erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders, despite state prohibition

10:03AM ( 8 months ago )

US cancer death rate hits milestone: 25 years of decline

The U.S. cancer death rate has now been falling for 25 years _ an important milestone in the overall decline

4:12PM ( 1 year ago )

LEADING OFF: Trout sits, Taillon and Betts meet post-cancer

LEADING OFF: Trout sits on birthday, Taillon and Betts meet post-cancer, Braves and Nats play two

11:20PM ( 1 year ago )

AP Health - Men's Health Archive

Men's Health

Judge halts plan to move virus patients to California city

A judge has put on hold a plan to send up to 50 people infected with a new virus from China to a Southern California city for quarantine

By The Associated Press

10:09PM ( 2 days ago )