Dr. Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General during President Donald Trump’s first administration, is sounding the alarm on his former boss’s actions and disease outbreaks in the U.S. and around the world.

A newly identified strain of bird flu, H5N9, discovered at a California duck farm, has prompted concerns about the possibility of a larger outbreak, The Washington Post reported Jan. 29. Health ...

With little fanfare, the Biden administration stacked a critical committee that helps set U.S. vaccination policy with new ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, concluded Thursday's ...

The -NORC poll shows about half of Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” favor having the federal programs Medicare and Medicaid cover weight-loss drugs for people who have obesity, while about 2 in 10 ...

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Public health experts evaluate the global and financial impact of the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization.

Nebraska is the only state where lawyers automatically serve as coroners. Under the system, 87% of unattended deaths aren’t autopsied. Some families are left wondering.

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

Readers had a lot to say about my latest column on the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed front-of-package labels. Most ...