Measles outbreak in the state has now reached 39 counties, with 943 confirmed cases and 176 hospitalizations

Rural health care providers have struggled for years. The Trump administration is pointing to a cutting-edge, if unproven way to save them: artificial intelligence.

Group's recommendations on cervical cancer screening, cardiovascular prevention were blocked

Studying how people adapt to change can help us navigate our current uncertain moment. It can also do something AI cannot: tether us to time and space.

Heidi Overton, whose confirmation has an uncertain future, gave careful answers during her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported.

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

AI chatbots make faster, more confident, but less nuanced decisions than human doctors when choosing who gets a life-saving kidney transplant.

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

A political philosopher explains the ethical arguments in favor of free movement.

The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.

CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases

Dr. Rupa Narra is a U.S. pediatrician who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help care for stricken children. Nothing could have prepared her for what she'd face.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

International scientific collaboration, when guided by rigorous peer review, transparency, accountability, and appropriate security measures, is not at odds with an America First approach.

Frustrated workers are violating funeral protocols.

Médecins Sans Frontières is urging world leaders to increase funding to help the millions who need aid.

A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

Sen. Roger Marshall, the Kansas Republican who helped lead House Republicans' 2017 push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, spent decades building his medical career and personal wealth in part by suin...

Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease c...

Long Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers

The U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs.

Emergency funding is necessary, but a system dependent largely on episodic, reactive funding is ill-suited to moments of crisis or building long-term preparedness.

The sick people are spread across 17 states

President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, the...

But you can intervene to stop wasteful spending and dangerous interventions by Vanessa McMains, Christa Reynolds, and Anonymous Experts

Coverage among kindergartners for major vaccines fell in more than half the states, continuing a years-long trend, as measles cases climb.

The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

For six decades, politicians have blurred the distinction between protecting Medicaid from abuse and using abuse to discredit Medicaid itself.

The first work requirement-related disenrollments begin in Nebraska on Saturday. While the state Medicaid director estimates this will impact 200 Nebraskans, advocates are concerned that the number wi...