Join our FREE personalized newsletter for news, trends, and insights that matter to everyone in America

Newsletter

Health

Card image cap
John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter has disclosed that she has terminal cancer and may live for only about another yearJohn F. Kennedy's granddaughter disclosed Saturday that she has terminal cancer, w...
Card image cap
With a runway of smoking-hot coals laid out before them, residents in San Pedro Manrique, Spain, steel themselves as thousands of onlookers cheer them on. The crowd roars when they walk across the ...
Card image cap
Even occasional smoking can significantly raise heart disease risk. Mal de Ojo Studio/Stocksy Researchers say that smoking as few as two cigarettes a day can significantly increase a perso...
Card image cap
Israel faces ‘mental health tsunami’ after two years of war, report finds  Submitted by MEE staff on Sat, 11/22/20...
Card image cap
As measles continues to spread across the United States, questions have emerged about whether the country will retain its measles elimination status.The U.S. is currently experiencing the highest n...
Card image cap
The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say they want the government to fo...
Card image cap
Let me make a small concession on behalf of the medical community: The CDC is technically correct when it asserts, as it did this week in a surprise update to its website, that “studies have not ru...
Card image cap
NEW YORK -- The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it's unclear if it will be as bad as last winter's, but some health experts are worried as U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention da...
Card image cap
Advocates for the cannabis and hemp industries say regulation is preferable to an outright ban. Image credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images A provision in the recent federal spending bill ...
Card image cap
The rewriting of a page on the CDC’s website to assert the false claim that vaccines may cause autism sparked a torrent of anger and anguish from doctors, scientists, and parents who say Health and...
Card image cap
There are countless think tanks in the U.S. seeking to influence local, state, and national policy. A relatively new one is making its mark in President Donald Trump’s Washington: the Texas-based B...
Card image cap
Gas-station weed was never supposed to exist. And yet, convenience stores across the country—even in states where marijuana is illegal—sell a trove of fizzy drinks, vape pens, and confections all p...
Card image cap
A federal appeals court is deciding whether to revive more than 500 lawsuits filed by parents who claimed their children's autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was caused by pr...
Card image cap
For nearly three years, Eric Tennant endured chemotherapy infusions, rounds of radiation, biopsies, and hospitalizations that left him weak and depleted. “It’s goo...
Card image cap
When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the...
Card image cap
The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of tran...
Card image cap
NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a recent Wednesday showered in praise from the vice president and health technology CEOs at a glitzy “Make America Healthy Again” event in Wa...
Card image cap
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, did bother to ask CDC scientists about using their website to turn anti-vaccine talking points into agency guidance, it didn’t ...
Card image cap
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie's stories. ...
Card image cap
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its webpage on autism and vaccines on Wednesday, stating a link between the two has been ignored despite many studies finding no such li...
Card image cap
“My year of unraveling” is how a despairing Christy Morrill described nightmarish months when his immune system hijacked his brain.What’s called autoimmune encephalitis attacks the organ that makes...