Critics fear that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services chief RFK, Jr., known for his antivaccine views, has picked a ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Brown University engineers partnered with public health experts to create new diagnostic techniques that could help to ...

What is new COVID? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly spotted COVID variant NB.1.8.1 through its airport screening program in May and traced it to a large surge in ...

The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey found adults divided over the health secretary but with a bare ...

Esther Bejarano's son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn't know what had triggered his symptoms—neither she nor her husband had asthma—but she suspected it was the ...

Kennedy, Jr. announced eight new members, including a physician criticized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation and ...

Key Takeaways NB.1.8.1 may make up over one-third of current U.S. COVID-19 casesThe variant is spreading fast, but doesn’t ...

There is a reason why this cycle repeats itself so predictably. Research shows that insufficient sleep disrupts hunger signals, weakens self-control, impairs glucose metabolism and increases your risk ...

Despite an increase in the prevalence of prescribing, only 0.5% of U.S. adolescents with obesity were prescribed an obesity ...

Jerome Adams, President Trump’s first-term surgeon general, is becoming one of the most prominent voices speaking out against the public health policies and decisions carried out in the president’s ...

The directive comes as measles cases so far this year have hit 1,197 infections, which is fewer than 100 cases from surpassing the record 1,274 cases that were confirmed for all of 2019. Related news ...