As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food ...

Half the inks tested in a study contained polyethylene glycol, which can cause organ damage with repeated exposure. Some ...

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been running for years. But then the whole team that administers it lost their jobs last month in federal layoffs. Federal officials say it will continue ...

Federal law says Medicaid must cover out-of-state emergency care. But a Volusia County man got a five-figure bill after a Rapid City hospital declined to charge his state’s Medicaid program.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, about the CDC's new guidelines on COVID vaccines for kids and pregnant women.

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Modern to develop an ...

Fatalities among children were high again for a second year in Florida, while national numbers were the highest since the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would no ...

Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a hearing last week that no one has died from USAID cuts. But aid groups say abruptly shutting down those programs is having deadly consequences.

Medicaid plays a vital role in many rural communities that favored President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. But residents ...

The federal government has removed COVID-19 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy pregnant women and children. The change is raising concerns among some independent experts.