Half of the $10 billion each year will be distributed evenly across states that have applied for it. The other half can be distributed by the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & ...

The tax and spending bill cuts more than $1 trillion from Medicaid, the public health insurance program for people with low incomes that’s jointly funded by states and the federal government. Under ...

A study linked fine-particle air pollution and other environmental factors to genetic changes in people with lung cancer who never smoked.

What makes SPF makeup and tinted sunscreen less protective than regular sunscreen? This boils down to the quantity of sun protective ingredient. Looking at pure sunscreen, you can see that the ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies involve taking immune cells, called T cells, from a patient and engineering them to make a protein that lets them recognize and attack the patient’s ...

Radiation may shrink existing metastatic tumors not directly treated. New research shows the opposite effect: Such tumors may also grow.

Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat stomach cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects. Keytruda is a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor approved for ...

The NIH's National Cancer Institute, which has long benefited from bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians and scientists.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age 55. Researchers discovered that women treated ...

PPP2R1A mutations could be a valuable biomarker to help guide treatment and may offer a new therapeutic target.

Features In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency Research shows harm reduction helps prevent death and can build long-term recovery for people who use ...

Women who used at-home test kits were more than twice as likely to complete screening than those who received only telephone reminders.