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 ...
Our "Navigating Aging" columnist sets off on a new phase in life with lessons she’s learned reporting on aging and health.
Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on ...
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 ...
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 ...
During a roughly five-year span, CVS Health, Cigna, and UnitedHealth benefited the most from increasing prices for generic drugs that treated illnesses such as HIV and cancer. Some of the price hikes ...
The Washington Post: Society Is Making You Sick, GOP Says. Too Bad Their Plans Will Make You Sicker. The biggest threat to your health isn’t your inability to afford an inhaler or to get that ...
The proposal would require brands to list sodium, sugar, and fat on the fronts of packages in an effort to help people make better choices. Also in the news: A possible overhaul in how obesity is ...
The risk of premature death increases when people consume a couple of drinks a day, an HHS report says. A trade group disagrees, arguing the report is "rife with bias and conflicts of interest." And ...
On his first full day in office, Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey approved religious exemptions from school vaccinations. Also: the threat of contaminated water from the California wildfires; a new ...