The FDA's top vaccine official is stepping down after just 3 months in a role that upset drug companies, patient groups and some political leaders.

Cases of "flesh-eating" bacteria infections are climbing across the Southeast. North Carolina has tallied 59 Vibrio ...

A parental rights group is launching a new healthcare transparency tool for families they say will contribute to the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again" goals.

According to DHHS and the state budget office, the delays were the result of the Maine Legislature’s failure to pass a ...

Methods can involve the use of opioid overdose reversal medications such as naloxone, providing sterile needles to limit the transmission of infectious diseases, test strips that detect fentanyl in ...

Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, a medico-legal expert and the founder of Medical Justice, is calling attention to a landmark federal ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services adopted a recommendation to remove thimerosal from all influenza vaccines, ...

Dr. Matilde Castiel, who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, was appointed as HHS commissioner in 2015 after the city ...

With a Medicare voucher system, the government would give beneficiaries a monthly check to offset the cost of health insurance. Learn more about this proposed change to Medicare.

WORCESTER ― After 10 years as the head of the city’s health and human services, Dr. Matilde “Mattie” Castiel will retire from ...

Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the field of global health into a state of fear and uncertainty. Once ...

States that historically have been some of the unhealthiest in the nation, like Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, have ...