Pennsylvania is seeing roughly 2,000 fewer drug deaths a year. Nationwide, the number of annual deaths from drug overdoses has dropped by more than 30,000 people a year.

Seeking to serve as a counterweight to the Trump administration, a flurry of mostly blue states has created initiatives — and ...

The move comes after hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses more than doubled last year in the US.

Adam Boehler, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become special envoy for hostage affairs, has withdrawn his nomination to ...

A medical researcher may have erroneously lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money because she was swept up in ...

Though they tend to get less public attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S.

Academically, socially, and institutionally, America has not yet recovered from COVID-19 on the fifth anniversary of ...

I was among the first wave of New Yorkers who contracted Covid-19 in the spring of 2020 - during the early days of lockdowns, ...

There sat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, at a Steak ‘n Shake with Fox News host Sean Hannity, raving about the fries.

Measles had been declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Now the disease is back with a vengeance. In February, an unvaccinated Texan child became the first person in a decade to die from measles in ...

March 15 is "Everything You Think Is Wrong Day" — a quirky (un)official holiday that encourages us all to stay humble by ...

In Florida, the number of kindergartners with mandatory vaccinations decreased to 88% in the 2023-24 school year from 94% in ...