New Mexico health officials announced on Thursday that a Santa Fe County resident had been hospitalized but ultimately recovered from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, marking the first case recorded in ...

It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

A group of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccine recommendations has suspended an anticipated push to stop recommending mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fielding pressure from the White House to relax his controversial approach to vaccine policies as the midterms near, but his most steadfast ...

Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now reject at least some federal vaccine guidance as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to de-emphasize the importance of ...

The bills, one brought by Gov. Ned Lamont, and a second by the Public Health Committee, which will hold a public hearing on the bills Wednesday, clarify and strengthen Connecticut’s control over ...

A growing health debate is spilling into America’s coffee cups, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. questions the amount of sugar in drinks sold by Starbucks and Dunkin’.

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda. In the year that US Health and Human Services ...

School meals, physical activity and weight loss drugs have all become talking points in the problem, which is a major issue in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement.

Anti-tobacco advocates and state officials across the country are proposing an increased tax on cigarette packs. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids published an annual report ...

Measles makes a comeback In 2026, the U.S. has seen a surge in outbreaks of the highly contagious, yet vaccine-preventable ...