The court officials overseeing the NFL’s $1 billion-plus settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients toward doctors willing to give them a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis whether they exhibited symptoms or not.

Dozens of motorcycle taxi drivers have joined an Ebola awareness caravan in eastern Congo.

The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with enough information about prices.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected.

Colombia has enacted a law aimed at preventing cattle linked to deforestation from entering beef supply chains by connecting livestock traceability, land ownership and forest monitoring systems.

The students in Bengie Santos' exercise class at the Greater Seattle Y say there's something special about their 72-year-old instructor.

Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread.

Wearing earplugs at concerts can help prevent hearing damage.

Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.

The Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could grow to 20,000 cases or more, depending on how quickly infected people are isolated to slow the spread.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

A staff member says a resident killed in a fire at an unregistered nursing home in western Sri Lanka had been chained and another was untied and saved.

There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.

Indonesia's former head of the National Nutrition Agency has been arrested on corruption charges related to a multibillion-dollar free-meals program.

Local 4’s Dr. Frank McGeorge has some handy first aid tips for 20 of the most common summer injuries.

Businessman Zach Lahn's win in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary over President Donald Trump's pick is a rare electoral setback for Trump.

The World Health Organization chief says Congo's Ebola outbreak had a head start but that testing is improving, even as violence plagues the region.

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has taken a turn in the White House briefing room.

Chronic back pain affects millions of Americans, many of whom spend years cycling through medications, injections, physical therapy and many times, surgery in their search for lasting relief.

Volunteers for the U.N. food agency are providing crucial support In the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo by cooking.

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility.

Hurricanes, wildfires and other extreme weather events can cause anxiety that lasts even after they're over.

Five American cruise ship passengers exposed to hantavirus are leaving a Nebraska quarantine facility.

Congo has confirmed at least 282 Ebola cases in its growing outbreak.

Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base.

The World Health Organization reports that five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus in eastern Congo.

New research shows a novel pill is helping people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer.

Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop.

The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly.