HHS houses major health agencies in the U.S., like the FDA, the CDC and the NIH, and it’s also responsible for Medicare and ...

Reports this week of a teen in British Columbia who tested positive for H5 avian influenza has renewed attention on the virus ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who dropped out of the ...

President-elect Donald Trump said he’s tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services, a ...

Health officials have announced six more H5N1 bird flu infections in humans: five in California and the first known case in ...

Promises by Donald Trump’s controversial new pick for America’s health chief to tackle spiralling rates of obesity, diabetes ...

There have been dozens of confirmed human cases of bird flu in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the symptoms, risks and ...

Healthcare stocks were falling Friday morning after noted anti-vaccine crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was announced as ...

Opioid overdose deaths have now slowed to the lowest levels nationwide since 2020, according to new estimates from the ...

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health Organization and the US ...

New government data shows that U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to be showing a sustained decline. There were about 97,000 ...