Health
In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a dec...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands at a crossroads. After years of pandemic fallout, opioid deaths, and declining...
Health officials are working to inform fellow passengers.A measles case was confirmed in a person who traveled to Washington, D.C., on an Amtrak train, accor...
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing center...
On a sunny weekday in Atlanta, a small crowd of people gathered for a rally outside of a labor union headquarters building.
The eve...
Making America healthy again, it seems, starts with a double cheeseburger and fries. Earlier this month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited a Ste...
Sure a lot of us have heard that technology is taking over the world and that it damages our mental health, and all of those other things that make people th...
I agree with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that cellphones probably don't belong in classrooms. They are likely to distract from ...
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden loss of American money has been “devastating” for efforts to stop HIV and will cost many lives of the world’...
New research suggests certain cardiovascular risk factors may impact women’s heart health more than men’s. Halfpoint Images/Getty Images
New researc...
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicai...
“On Feb. 25, I voted yes on a budget resolution that protects Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while cutting some spending elsewhere.”
Rep. N...
There are, at last count, nine different medals you can earn at the Comrades Marathon, a historic 55-mile race that runs between the South African cities of ...
Five high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leavingNEW YORK -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was rocked ...
Kristi Blokhin/ShutterstockIn Australia, it’s estimated almost one in five boys (18.8%) experience child sexual abuse. And at least one in 16 men (6.1%) exp...
Chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into the saliva that may be ingested, a new study found. Counter/Getty Images
A new s...
If there was a mascot to represent everything that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sees wrong with food, it would be Big Daddy’s Primo Pizza. A staple of school cafete...
HELENA, Mont. — Mark Nay’s first client had lost the van she was living in and was struggling with substance use and medical conditions that had led to multi...
Measles vaccination rates appear to be increasing in some areas of the U.S. that have been affected by outbreaks this year.The Centers for Disease Control an...
A researcher who was one of many to have their grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is speaking out about how the halting of such res...
Photographs by Elliott VerdierIn March 2009, after a long night on duty at the hospital, Emmeline Lagrange took a deep breath and prepared to place a devasta...
