A swim team in North St. Louis combats the public health threat of drowning — especially among Black children and adults — by ...

Colorado was long considered a haven for gender-affirming care. But under this Trump administration, hospitals in the state ...

Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

The rising rates of diabetes, obesity, and other health conditions make people more vulnerable to invasive strep, which can trigger flesh-eating disease and be life-threatening. Other news is on toxic ...

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration raids and threats have undermined these efforts, researchers say.

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on ...

A purge of FDA staff spared some people tasked with responding to a judge’s orders to disclose government records on covid ...

Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination clinics across the country, including ...

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson prompted both grief and public outrage about the ways insurers deny ...

Consumers who were enrolled fraudulently in Affordable Care Act coverage could receive unexpected tax bills — the first and ...

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Undue Medical Debt is retiring unpaid medical bills for 20 million people. The debt trading company that owned them is ...