Five years after the start of Covid, we appear to be trying to teach ourselves the lessons of the pandemic the hard way.

If the new administration slashes federal Medicaid spending, millions of people with disabilities would be cut off from critical health care services.

The outgoing surgeon general will have to rely on Congress and the next administration to add warnings about cancer risks to ...

Trump's staff is laying the groundwork to prepare for a new FDA commissioner and make their mark at the agency.

The explosive rise of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic has brought an accompanying challenge: logistics too knotty for a single ...

The U.S. surgeon general on Friday called for alcoholic beverages to carry labels warning of their connection to cancer, just ...

Snake oil, it turns out, motivated the founding of the FDA. The term “snake oil” arose out of a controversy from the late ...

The alcohol industry relies on the myth of “responsible enjoyment” to downplay its products’ risks while spreading misinformation to stifle regulation.

The CDC said Thursday that the mutations, detected in a sample taken from a Louisiana patient, may help bind the virus to the ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often ...

One major underdiscussed issue this year was the Biden administration’s failure to enforce a 2023 U.S. District Court for the ...

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