As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.

Continued progress against cancer will require collaboration among all key stakeholders. To this end, more stable and sustained federal investment is essential.

The survey also found that the public’s views of a national health plan are highly malleable.

While most GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs won’t happen until 2027, Democrats are speaking to the voters already feeling the squeeze.

Concern 8 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later

A groundbreaking Phase 1 clinical trial conducted by Cleveland Clinic has revealed that a single infusion of a CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy significantly reduced levels of "bad" cholesterol (LDL)

The vice president's anti-fraud task force may strip health coverage from people who did nothing wrong.

Administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved mFLUSIVA, the first influenza vaccine in the U.S. to utilize mRNA technology, specifically for adults aged 50 and older. This new vaccine aims

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

This poll finds two-thirds of the public view the "One Big Beautiful Bill" legislation unfavorably, and its favorability erodes further when people hear about its potential health impacts. As Congress...

Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.

Clinician conversations with patients will matter more than ever

Phase I results show early promise for a vaccine designed to prevent pancreatic cancer in people at high risk of developing the disease.

States must submit Rural Health Transformation Program progress reports to the federal government, but they aren’t required to proactively post those reports, or related information, publicly.

On second thought, I’m not that hungry.

Healthcare analyst Charles Gaba reports up to 10 million Americans lost coverage under Trump's second term. Medicaid, CHIP, ACA enrollment down.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

A new study has revealed that administering antiviral drugs to children within the first two days of flu symptom onset dramatically reduces their need for hospital care. This significant protective ef

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 and spread globally, prompting an international effort to accelerate development of a vaccine. The candidate va...

A new study found that older adults who received the Shingrix shingles vaccine were 24% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over a four-year period. This research, drawing on data from over 500,

The University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, painted a bleak picture of the consequences in federal lawsuit filings.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Republicans are taking deliberate steps to make health care less affordable.

Millions of subscribers could see their prescription costs and premiums go up in 2027 without the program, experts say.

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology helped prevent millions of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and is emerging as a promising cancer treatment modalit…

I left early for an interview that got cancelled but I think we all saw enough

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

"Donald Trump and Republicans are making healthcare more expensive for seniors at every turn."

Last week, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) introduced a bill called the “MediKids Act” (S. 5037), described as “guaranteed healthcare for every child in America.” Original cosponsors were Sens. Booker (NJ), Duck...

The tiny federal agency that tracks consumer product safety is pressuring hospitals to turn over patient records from emergency room visits, including about injuries that have nothing to do with consumer products.

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.