Health & Science

The imaging tool used to diagnose bone injuries, cancer and other diseases may expose patients to unnecessarily high radiation doses

Researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters ventured out of labs, hospitals and offices Friday to stand up to what they call a blitz on life-saving science by the Trump administration.

Health officials in Lubbock, Texas, held a press conference on Wednesday following confirmation of the first death related to the current measles outbreak.

The measles outbreak in West Texas has increased to 124 cases, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

A vaccine for poultry was just approved. Will we need a bird flu vaccine for humans, too?

The GOP-controlled Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, to lead the country’s most powerful health care agency.  Kennedy was confirmed as the secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services on a mostly party-line vote of 52-48. However, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., broke ranks on yet another of President Donald Trump’s...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate as the Secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday.

Over 20 states are suing the Trump administration over planned cuts to funding at medical and public health research institutions nationwide.

Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a three-person pilot study.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long record of doubting the safety of childhood vaccinations persisted as a flash point for him Thursday in a confirmation hearing.

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots. Many see a political opportunity to rewrite policies in their states after President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and anti-vaccine activist...

The Trump administration’s freeze on communications from U.S. health agencies is leading to another disruption: the abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings. The move covers a swath of health conditions, from a Presidential Advisory Council meeting on antibiotic-resistant germs to National Institutes of Health evaluations of grant applications for research into cancer and other diseases. People registering for that antibiotic resistance meeting...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office withdrawing from the World Health Organization.

The risk of developing dementia may be much higher than previously thought, a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine has found.

A California man says his two cats died and a third was hospitalized after he fed them raw milk recalled for bird flu risk.

Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

The common stomach bug is highly contagious, spreads on surfaces and through the air, and people can catch it every year.

The study found that bees in hives under lamp posts are staying up at night, which could impact people and the food they eat in the long run.

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Doctor explains what you need to know about what is informally referred to as “brain fog.”