HHS houses major health agencies in the U.S., like the FDA, the CDC and the NIH, and it’s also responsible for Medicare and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick​ to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has raised controversy on topics ...

Health officials have announced six more H5N1 bird flu infections in humans: five in California and the first known case in ...

Opioid overdose deaths have now slowed to the lowest levels nationwide since 2020, according to new estimates from the ...

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health Organization and the US ...

Vaccine stocks slid late Thursday as reports stated noted anti-vaccine politician Robert Kennedy Jr. will serve as the next ...

New government data shows that U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to be showing a sustained decline. There were about 97,000 ...

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is known for his misleading and false claims on vaccines, including repeated assertions ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is his choice to lead the Department ...

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data. The syphilis epidemic slowed ...

Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...