A newly identified strain of bird flu, H5N9, discovered at a California duck farm, has prompted concerns about the possibility of a larger outbreak, The Washington Post reported Jan. 29. Health ...

With little fanfare, the Biden administration stacked a critical committee that helps set U.S. vaccination policy with new ...

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about half of U.S. adults believe it is a good thing for adults to use weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and ...

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Public health experts evaluate the global and financial impact of the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization.

Nebraska is the only state where lawyers automatically serve as coroners. Under the system, 87% of unattended deaths aren’t autopsied. Some families are left wondering.

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

As a bird flu outbreak escalates across the United States., the Trump administration has paused the release of key public health studies, stalling research.

Readers had a lot to say about my latest column on the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed front-of-package labels. Most ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, global health faces constant threats from new and re-emerging pathogens. Recent devastating outbreaks of diseases ...

January 2025 marks five years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in 1,216,305 American deaths and ...