Health

Flu vaccine makers may face a last-minute scramble to produce enough doses after an FDA advisory committee meeting was abruptly canceled.

Baby boomers are poised to hit an already overburdened senior care space in the next few years. Investors are looking to buy up long-term and end-of-life care operations.

At least 146 people have been infected since late January. One child has died.

Experts cite several factors, including the strains in circulation, vaccination rates and possible waning immunity from masking and social distancing during the Covid pandemic.

A Long Island beachside community in Suffolk County is worried about dozens of dead birds that have washed up on the shore and been found in backyards, especially because officials believe the birds died from avian flu.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, falsely claiming that people had been hospitalized “mainly for quarantine” and misleadingly stating that the situation is “not unusual.”

There are a lot of questions about the efficacy of the measles vaccine and whether some should get a booster or be revaccinated. We’ve got answers.

Advocates say the coverage has bipartisan support, but efforts to make it permanent have been unsuccessful thus far.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of well-established vaccines, said Wednesday that his department is tracking an outbreak of measles that has infected more than 100 people and killed a child in Texas. But he played down the consequence of the resurgence — 25 years after the disease had been thought to hav...

Texas is suing three physicians over claims that they violated the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, calling the doctors “scofflaws” in lawsuits filed last fall that threaten to impose steep fines and revoke their medical licenses.

The Mennonite population is being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas. Here’s a closer look at the Anabaptist family of churches and some of their varying pratices, cultures and traditions.

Here’s a look at the global measles situation after the United States registered its first death from the disease in 10 years.

The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.