Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on ...

Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia — states with some of the worst health outcomes — also have some of the highest childhood vaccination rates. But doctors and health officials worry a rising ...

Food safety advocates, who had urged the ban for decades, do not anticipate difficulties in the transition and hope this will lead to more bans on synthetic dyes. Also in public health news: baby ...

The disaster has again disrupted the education and nutrition of thousands of children. In Pasadena alone, five school sites were destroyed or severely damaged, leaving 14,000 students with no clear ...

National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign Friday. The Hill reports that while the agency has typically held bipartisan support, residual Republican dissatisfaction over the ...

Roll Call reports that the newly finalized rule will allow for health care providers who have not seen a patient in person to prescribe six months’ worth of buprenorphine via telehealth. Also in ...

Meanwhile: Medicare Advantage enrollees aren't seeing expected savings on supplemental care; Inflation Reduction Act's annual prescription cap will provide significant savings; Georgia wants to change ...

Texas is being encouraged to join existing interstate compacts, which would allow health care workers from nine professions to practice in other states and out-of-state workers to come to Texas. Other ...

Our "Navigating Aging" columnist sets off on a new phase in life with lessons she’s learned reporting on aging and health.

The physical hazards of construction work have long been a focus of safety professionals. Yet attention on the psychosocial ...

Republicans in Washington are working on plans to shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance ...

The Biden administration ran out of time to expand contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act, The 19th reports. It's not likely the incoming Trump administration would support such a ...