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 ...

Defensores, médicos, investigadores, y funcionarios de salud pública temen que estos logros en algunos estados como ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

We sent them all of the information on our work,” a Biden health official told NBC News. Public health officials raise concern that a lack of coordination could imperil the response to the emerging ...