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Children and teenagers between ages 5 and 17 make up the majority of cases.A measles outbreak in Texas is continuing to grow, reaching 124 cases, new data re...
Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “a...
The HHS issued new sex-based definitions that exclude gender, ignoring the identities of gender-diverse and intersex people. chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images
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No infections have been detected in humans so far, the CDC said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that the new coronavirus ...
Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decid...
Associated Press -- Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration, some probationary staffers received unexpected news over the weeken...
HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and G...
Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But what exactly is it?
Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people w...
In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowl...
VANNES, France -- A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who w...
Bovard: Can Kennedy Save Kids From Psychiatric Ravage?
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President Trump issued an executive order last week creating...
Cartons of frozen shakes sold to nursing homes and other institutions are being recalled after an outbreak of listeria linked to the productsFebruary 22, 202...
Journalists Discuss Health Care For Incarcerated Children And The Possibility Of A Bird Flu Pandemic
KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the possibility of a bird flu pandemic on WAMU’s “1A” on Feb. 20. Gounder also dis...
Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Republicans need to...
Visits to doctors' offices for flu-like illness fell to 6.8% from 7.7%.Flu activity remains "elevated" in the United States but is starting to show signs of ...
Most of the cases are in children between ages 5 and 17.The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 90, according to new ...
The 75 Soft Challenge may help lower stress and anxiety and promote healthy weight management. Me 3645 Studio/Getty Images
Proponents of the “75 Sof...
Medicaid is under threat — again.
Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to the government h...
BOSTON -- A court battle is set to resume Friday over the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say will endan...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no f...
Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the United States for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to new federal data published ea...
