Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States
Major U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid says it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan while coping with falling sales and opioid-related lawsuits
Scientists along the West Coast are seeking action to help sunflower sea stars recover from catastrophic population declines
The recent wave of protests against China’s anti-virus restrictions was a ray of hope among some supporters of Hong Kong’s own pro-democracy movement after local authorities stifled it using a national security law
Official figures show that thousands of patients each week are languishing in ambulances outside overflowing British hospitals
Devastating Russian strikes in Ukraine have cut off power to many hospitals
Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted two months
A toddler is thriving after doctors used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease
A government inquiry has begun hearing evidence of unsolved deaths resulting from gay hate crime over four decades in Australia’s most populous state
South Korea’s police chief has admitted a responsibility for failing to prevent a recent crowd surge that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in Seoul
A nonprofit organization is calling on Haiti’s government to release certain inmates amid a swift rise in cholera cases throughout the country’s severely crowded prison system
Eager to admire colorful foliage, eat sushi and go shopping, droves of tourists from abroad started arriving in Japan
