Karen Weintraub

USA TODAY In the time warp that COVID-19 created in most of our lives, it's hard to believe it's been five years since any of us first heard of a mysterious illness making people sick in China.

A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday.

A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, as officials in California continued working to contain the virus, which has run rampant through the state's dairy and poultry farms.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease.

Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY · 6 min read NEW YORK CITY ‒ If records are meant to be broken, Towana Looney is very grateful to be a record-breaker.

Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY · 5 min read Since arriving on a Texas dairy farm nearly a year ago , bird flu has caused havoc

Trump deported 37,660 migrants in his first month in office. Biden's monthly average was 57,000 for the last year.

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

Research on an extended family in South America was advancing Alzheimer's research. Then it was defunded.

Proposed cuts threaten health insurance for tens of millions, tariffs will drive up drug prices, and key programs are being cut, medical experts say.