The US president vowed to ‘end childhood cancer’. But his administration is dismantling the search for a cure and sending families scrambling for treatment

The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order recommending the MMR vaccine be split into three separate shots. Doctors say that could lead to missed vaccines.

The authors of a new report have called prior authorization---which allows insurers to overrule physicians to deny coverage---a "corporate care veto" and found it drains tens of billions of dollars ea...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked for 35 years from sunrise to sunset to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He had also been working toward securing legal status in the U.S. after neg...

The “fraud, waste, and abuse” narrative has been seriously overworked, and does not fit the facts.

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

The war in Iran has slowed down international shipping, much of which contains medical and humanitarian goods destined for Asia and Africa.

As the U.S. pulls out of providing billions of dollars of aid for programs globally, NPR's reporters find out what that looks like on the ground - and how China is moving in to take America's place.Fo...

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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Health costs are top of mind for voters as the 2026 midterm elections loom in November.

The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens.

CSPI and the Center for Biological Diversity's Uncompromised Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) demonstrate what the Guidelines for healthy dietary patterns could have looked like if the Trump adm...

After six months in ICE detention, 20-year-old nursing student Allison Bustillo chose voluntary removal to Honduras. Her story reveals the human cost of immigration enforcement and its impact on the n...

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.

Millions of dollars have been pulled from state and local vaccination programs with no explanation after a review of the funding agreements by the US Department of Health and Human Services.