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Leading the FDA has long been one of the greatest professional achievements in American health. At the start of every administration, doctors jockey for the ...
It’s been three years since floods pummelled the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Now, Cyclone Alfred is heading for the region, threatening devast...
In October 2020, Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institutes of Health, sent an email that maligned a colleague. A few days before, Jay Bha...
Americans and Brits really are a pond apart, and not just physically. The two nations differ when it comes to how they use the English language, how they dep...
WASHINGTON -- America's butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22...
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Dr. Marty Makary will answer questions from a Senate panel about his plans to lead the Food and Drug AdministrationPresident Donald Trump’s pick to lead the ...
The World Health Organization warned this week that massive cuts in funding, especially from the United States, could harm the fight against tuberculosis aro...
A new study found that moderate stress levels were associated with a 78% increased risk of stroke in female participants, but not in males. ozgurcankaya/Gett...
NEW YORK -- It took five years for Crystal Burke to put a name to the symptoms that haunted her. Heart palpitations. Insomnia so severe she slept only two to...
A dozen people seated around folding tables clap heartily for a beaming woman: She’s donated two 13-gallon garbage bags full of clothes, including several Ch...
TUSTIN, Calif. — Cynthia Williams is furious with U.S. House Republicans willing to slash Medicaid, the government-run insurance program for people with low ...
WASHINGTON -- Rural cancer patients may miss out on cutting-edge treatments in Utah. Therapies for intellectual disorders could stall in Maryland. Red states...
It’s become common to see kids, some in their school uniforms, puffing on a vape.
The World Health Organization points to the enticing flavours and targe...
Women planning pill abortions in Wyoming will need to get an ultrasound after lawmakers overrode the governor's veto of the new measureCHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Wome...
A yearslong legal battle over the right to an emergency abortion in Idaho has been abruptly upended now that President Donald Trump has moved to drop the hig...
Health experts have raised concerns about a new CDC advisory that recommends vitamin A supplements as a therapy for measles. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty I...
During his joint address to Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke about childhood cancer rates, saying it was a priority of his administration to...
The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participant...
A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR royalty has been crowned the world’s ...
A federal judge has extended a nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s executive orders halting federal funding for providers of gender-affirming health...
