Feel like there’s nothing you can do about your exposure to plastic? A study suggests you could make a difference in as little as seven days.

Doctors and other providers in six states must get permission from AI-driven tech companies before giving seniors selected medical care. The experiment is a pilot program that could be expanded.

The FDA's approach to collaborating with the public is shifting, as is its approach to how it handles reviews of new products in some cases. The changes are happening at the same time as a massive exo...

A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

The House’s gigantic tax-and-spending budget reconciliation bill has landed with a thud in the Senate, where lawmakers are divided in their criticism over whether it increases the deficit too much or ...

Today in D.C., thousands of veterans are rallying against Trump’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and his slashing of staff throughout the government.

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive or...

The House narrowly passed a budget reconciliation bill, including billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy along with billions of dollars in cuts to health program spending. But the Senate is e...

As local food banks struggle to meet demand, the Trump administration has cut USDA funding meant to provide meals for those in need.

Republicans advanced their massive tax cut and border security package out of a key House committee during a rare Sunday night vote.

In recent weeks, Social Security has been plagued by problems related to technology, system errors, and even the marking of living people as dead.

Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potentia...

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Claims about the link between measles vaccines and autism, and about treatments for measles, appear to be more widely heard, according to a KFF survey released Wednesday.

The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University.

It’s been shown that reactivation of the chickenpox virus can lead to the accumulation of aberrant proteins associated with Alzheimer’s.

In his first term, President Donald Trump granted pardons or clemency to more than 60 convicted fraudsters, including health care executives who defrauded Medicare out of hundreds of millions of dolla...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of medical errors each year. It was effectively dissolved Tuesday.

The Department of Health and Human Services underwent an unprecedented purge this week, as thousands of employees from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and P...

Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Contract Year 2026 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicare Cost Plan Program, etc.

The worldwide sell-off for financial markets is slamming into an even higher, scarier gear. The S&P 500 tumbled 5.7% Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 2,054 points and the Nasdaq composite dropped 5.5%.

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the fe...

Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.

The measure is intended to bring car factories to the United States but could increase prices for consumers significantly.

Many rural counties are short on dentists, and if they lose water fluoridation, tooth decay could surge to levels that have not been seen in decades, experts warn.

After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.

“There is no way you’re going to see a better discount if you wait three months,” one analyst said.

Republicans’ moves to scale back Medicaid are leading to more misinformation about immigrants, especially Latinos, circulating on social media platforms. The misconceptions include the myths that Lati...

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More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs his officials say exclud...