Health

A new U.S. rule requires mammography centers to inform women about their breast density. Dense breasts can make it harder to spot cancer on a mammogram. (AP video: Shelby Lum)

The U.S. government reopened its program on Thursday, allowing any household in the U.S. to order up to four at-home COVID nasal swab kits through the website, covidtests.gov. (AP Video: Mary Conlon)

An Associated Press analysis of FDA records found that government inspectors have not returned to nearly 2,000 factories due for a safety surveillance inspection. (AP Video: Shelby Lum; Mary Conlon; Ajit Solanki. Production: Shelby Lum)

The federal Healthy Start program funds more than 100 local projects that coordinate care for pregnant women. (AP Video: Mary Conlon)

Welcome to the National Animal Disease Center, a government research center in Iowa where scientists work with pigs, cows and other animals, pushing to solve the bird flu outbreak currently spreading through U.S. animals — and develop ways to stop it. (AP Video/Mary Conlon)

Military veterans have spent years lobbying for the use of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD and other hard-to-treat mental health conditions. But a sharply critical review of the club drug MDMA has put the drug’s approval in doubt. (AP video/Shelby Lum)

A Massachusetts man can speak again after surgeons removed his cancerous voice box and replaced it with a donated one, a pioneering move. Marty Kedian is only the third patient in the U.S. ever to undergo a larynx transplant — the first with active cancer — and one of a handful worldwide.

A KFF Health News and Associated Press analysis found more than half of areas targeted by federal money in recent years saw HIV rates increase for Latinos while decreasing for other racial and ethnic groups. Fernando Hermida is among them. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld)

As an end-of-life care veterinarian, Dr. Lisa Walling considers both pet and owner to be her patients. She makes sure animals are as comfortable as possible in their final days and helps humans through the difficult decision of knowing when it’s time to say good-bye. (AP Video: Mary Conlon)

Drugstores have become bigger sources of care in recent years, sometimes by design or necessity — especially where hospital closures stretch resources thin. (AP Video/Shelby Lum)

Specially trained service dogs helped ease PTSD symptoms in U.S. military veterans in a small study that the researchers hope will help expand options for service members.

White noise is frequently used to mask background sounds and it now has competition. There’s a growing buzz around pink, brown and green noise and their theoretical effects on sleep and concentration. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld; production: Shelby Lum)

Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 _ and a racially biased organ test was to blame. (AP Video by Tassanee Vejpongsa; Production by Shelby Lum)

Researchers are testing deep brain stimulation as a treatment for people with a severe form of depression. Doctors compare it to a pacemaker for the brain. It involves implanting electrodes in the brain, which are attached to a device placed under the skin in the chest. (Feb. 21)(AP Video: Mary Conlon)

Cancer patients and doctors have ignited a movement to radically change how new cancer drugs are tested to make them more tolerable. (Feb. 6) (AP Video by Christine Nguyen/Teresa Crawford)

Crib cameras are offering a clue to a rare but devastating tragedy -- when seemingly healthy young children suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why. (Jan. 4)(AP Video/Shelby Lum)

Medical students at Meharry Medical College are getting hands-on training in organ donation and transplant. It’s a novel program at the historically Black college that aims to increase doctors of color in the field and improve patient trust. (Oct. 24) (AP Video: Kristin M. Hall)