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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A judge has initiated a federal court takeover of California’s troubled prison mental health system by naming the former head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to serve as recei...
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Two new studies highlight the potential risks to heart health among young adults who use cannabis. Olena Bondarenko/Getty Images
A retrospective study found that cannabis users were six ti...
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A policy change by the Trump administration allows federal immigration officials to make arrests at or near ...
Gwyneth Paltrow is "very fascinated" by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.In her recent cover story with Vanity Fair, the actress and Goop founder...
As measles cases continue to spread across the United States, many Americans may be asking themselves if they need a measles vaccine booster to enhance protection.An outbreak in western Texas has g...
MINNEAPOLIS -- A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 mill...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The ...
BAMAKO, Mali -- Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see.Two hundred years have passed since the invention of brai...
The routine is familiar for most people: When checking in for an appointment with a doctor or other health care provider, patients typically complete and sign a pile of paperwork, including a form ...
The Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI programs could exacerbate an unexpectedly steep drop in diversity among medical school students, even in states like California, where public universitie...
Better sleep hygiene habits may help with insomnia. Tetra Images via Getty ImagesAbout 10% of Americans say they have chronic insomnia, and millions of others report poor sleep quality. Ongoing res...
The CDC reports that 95% of measles cases in the U.S. are in people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. FG Trade/Getty Images
The growing measles outbreak in the U...
“Breaking news: The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We need to stand up to these Medicare cuts.”
Rep. Ro. Khanna (D-Cali...
The study acknowledges other factors may also play a part.Transgender adults who received gender-affirming hormone therapy had a significantly lower risk of moderate-to-severe depression over four ...
If the world seems to you a little nastier and more confrontational than it was just a few years ago, you're not alone. Many Americans say the world is a ruder place than it was before the COVID-19...
When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on ...
HELENA, Mont. — Montana lawmakers are grappling with how — if at all — the state should rein in kratom, an unregulated plant-derived substance with addictive properties sold mainly as a mood and en...
Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground for misinformation and myths to multiply on social networks. Some of t...
The Senate Finance Committee got its chance March 14 to question Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the vast Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the largest agency within...
National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the ag...