Six dairy herds in Nevada have tested positive for a newer strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that’s been associated with severe infections in humans, according to the Nevada Department of Agriculture. The strain…
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A public health advocacy group is raising concerns about a “DEI Watchlist” recently launched by a conservative organization intent on identifying federal workers who might not carry out President Donald Trump’s agenda. The list says…
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Kennedy, the son of former US attorney general, senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, has written multiple anti-vaccine books, lobbied Congress to give parents exemptions from vaccinating their children and made widely reported, unsubstantiated…
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Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with executive orders from…
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Senate Democrats grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his various controversial statements including his stance on vaccines during his confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, and most left feeling…
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Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in 2015. I have started, scratched out and even abandoned the writing of this essay. I couldn’t do it. It wasn’t there. Didn’t feel it. Something kept nagging…
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A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the outbreak were first…
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The US Food and Drug Administration signed off Thursday on the first new type of pain reliever to be approved in more than two decades. The drug, suzetrigine, is a 50-milligram prescription pill that’s taken…
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The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States. One of the studies would reveal whether veterinarians who treat cattle have…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded approval for Johnson & Johnson’s nasal spray, Spravato, to allow it to be used as a standalone treatment for patients with severe depression, the company said on Tuesday.…