A person hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana is the first "severe" human H5N1 case in the U.S., the CDC says. What to know about bird flu symptoms in humans.

COVID-era telehealth laws made health care more accessible for rural patients, but telehealth might not be as easy to access next year.

Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the ...

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent ...

Public health in the United States varies widely from state to state, with some regions facing more significant challenges ...

From the maternal homicide crisis to a multimillion-dollar legal campaign against firearm regulations, our editor in chief on ...

Incoming Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vows to remove fluoridation from city water systems. Why it ...

Eswatini is taking tangible steps to prepare for its first public radiotherapy centre to enable cancer patients to be treated in-country, according to a team of international experts.  The experts, ...

Packaged foods in the U.S. will have to follow new rules in order to call themselves "healthy," according to changes ...

What can we expect if RFK Jr. becomes health secretary? Will Trump take action on Dreamers? Plus, KCRW analyzes how ...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to delve deeper into the precise origins of COVID-19, holding Dr. Anthony Fauci and other NIH ...

This year marks the 50-year anniversary of an ambitious global childhood vaccination program. The Expanded Programme on ...