Health

After 100 days of the deadliest Ebola outbreak, it can be stopped. Here’s how

Ebola is a disease that spreads through communities, so we need to listen to communities if we want to halt its spread

Hawk Fire evacuations in Reno, Nevada, slightly eased but thousands remain on high alert

Updated on: August 24, 2026 / 7:45 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Fauci's role in top aide's guilty plea to COVID-19 origins conspiracy

Federal conspiracy charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci’s senior science adviser have sparked new questions about whether the nation’s top infectious disease doctor was involved in the alleged cover-up of the origin of COVID-19.

'A bit like meditation': why Saw is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a grimy and gory trip back to the start of a surprisingly uplifting torture porn franchise

Trump Puts Autistic Kids in the Spotlight and Cuts Agencies Built to Protect Them

August 24, 2026 / 5:00 AM EDT / KFF Health News

How do you vaccinate 1,000 tiny penguins against bird flu in the wild? It’s ‘really tricky’ but there is a way

Phillip Island’s ‘iconic’ little penguins get first bird flu vaccinations in what is thought to be largest program of its kind

The hill I will die on: A music festival isn’t a music festival without children

Ignore the party poopers who say toddlers spoil the fun. I’ve braved the raves with my twins – and I’ve seen how families add to the magic of events

The Disappearers by Marlon James review

This Booker-listed epic set in Aids-era Kingston is a triumph – bitter, bawdy and ravishingly queer

A new start after 60: I became a grocer

Robert Solomon loves the early mornings, picking out the apples, tending to the broccoli and fussing up the dandelion greens. At 71, he says it’s the best job he’s had

Air conditioning push favored over emissions cuts in six European nations, survey finds

Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes

Courgette kraut and fermented pepper sauce: Šárka Otevřel Camrdová’s Czech pickle recipes

In an extract from her new book, the Prague-born food writer shares two ways to preserve summer vegetables so they can be savoured year-round

'I didn’t miss a thing': How Nick Haymes photographed his sons’ entire lives from verrucas to homemade hamster coffin

Bloody noses, ear cleanings, the first sproutings of armpit hair … the photographer reveals how he captured his two babies growing into boys and then men