Maria Cheng

AP Medical Writer

Governor Tony Evers speaks during an announcement of Eli Lilly expanding in Bristol, Wis., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, as Lilly said it will expand a Kenosha County, Wis., factory it bought early this year.

Eli Lilly Invests $3B to Expand Wisconsin Factory

December 6, 2024

A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman on Aug. 7, 2018, at a hospital in Chicago.

Maternal Mortality Review Panels are in the Spotlight

December 5, 2024

These MRI images with arrows indicating cancer were made during a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and published Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Prenatal Blood Test can Sometimes Hint at Cancer in Moms-to-be

December 5, 2024

Missouri residents and abortion-rights advocation react to a speaker during Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom kick-off petition drive, Feb. 6, 2024 in Kansas City, Mo. Abortion-rights advocates will ask a judge Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 to overturn Missouri’s near-total ban on the procedure, less than a month after voters backed an abortion-rights constitutional amendment.

Judge to Consider First Lawsuit to Overturn Missouri's Near-Total Abortion Ban

December 4, 2024

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A Twice-Yearly Shot Could Help End AIDS

But will it get to everyone who needs it?

December 2, 2024

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UK Regulator Approves Second Alzheimer's Drug in Months

But the government won't pay for it.

October 23, 2024

A small demonstration by people advocating assisted dying hold a protest outside the Hoses of Parliament as a bill to legalise assisted dying is to be put before lawmakers in London, England, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.

New UK Bill Aims to Legalize Assisted Dying for People Who Are Terminally Ill

Opponents of assisted dying, however, say there is no way to change the law without endangering vulnerable people.

October 16, 2024

This combo of pictures released by Mass General and UMass show American molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, left, and UMass Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, Victor Ambros.

Nobel Prize in Medicine Honors American Duo for Their Discovery of MicroRNA

MicroRNA does not make proteins, but help to control what cells are doing.

October 7, 2024

A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a study on Alzheimer's disease at Georgetown University Hospital, on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, in Washington.

UK Drug Regulator Approves Alzheimer's Drug, But Government Likely Won't Pay for It

Independent agency says drug's benefits "cannot be considered good value for the taxpayer."

August 22, 2024

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Mpox Has Been Declared a Public Health Emergency in Africa

What is it and what's the WHO doing?

August 14, 2024

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Experts Say Twice-Yearly Injection That Offers 100% Protection Against HIV Is 'Stunning'

The shots made by U.S. drugmaker Gilead and sold as Sunlenca are approved in the U.S., Canada, Europe and elsewhere.

July 24, 2024

An employee takes the fingerprints of a woman who died from the new coronavirus before her remains are cremated at La Recoleta crematorium in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 27, 2020. Countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the next global outbreak. A ninth and final round of talks involving governments, advocacy groups and others to finalize a “pandemic treaty” is scheduled to end Friday, May 10, 2024.

Countries Struggle to Draft 'Pandemic Treaty' to Avoid Mistakes Made During COVID

WHO's countries asked the U.N. health agency to oversee talks for a pandemic agreement in 2021.

May 10, 2024

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South African Company to Start Making Vaginal Rings that Protect Against HIV

A nonprofit council owns the rights to the rings, which are now made by a Swedish company.

November 30, 2023

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Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Gets UK Approval

It's a world first.

November 16, 2023

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Some Dutch People Seeking Euthanasia Cite Autism or Intellectual Disabilities, Researchers Say

The cases included five people younger than 30 who cited autism as either the only reason or a major contributing factor for euthanasia.

June 28, 2023

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Britain: 1st Babies Born in Country Using DNA from 3 People

Britain's fertility regulator on Wednesday confirmed the births.

May 10, 2023

In a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered evidence that polio is spreading there. The source of the virus? The oral vaccine itself.

Polio in U.S., UK and Israel Reveals Rare Risk of Oral Vaccine

Since 2017, there have been 396 cases of polio caused by the wild virus, versus more than 2,600 linked to the oral vaccine.

August 22, 2022

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022. The World Health Organization says monkeypox still does not warrant being declared a global emergency even though it's spreading in more than 70 countries. The decision announced on Saturday was the second time within weeks that WHO’s emergency committee declined to classify the unprecedented outbreak of the once-rare disease as an emergency.

UN Health Agency Chief Declares Monkeypox a Global Emergency

A global emergency is WHO’s highest level of alert.

July 25, 2022