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 ...

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

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

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

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Messages obtained by Politico said, “NIH ... will notify employees directly if any information related to work duties or performance is needed.” The messages also said the ability to travel or ...

At Thursday's Cabinet meeting, HHS Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency has launched a large research effort involving "hundreds of scientists from around the world" to determine "what has ...

FDA Commissioner Martin Makary said this move would offer newer treatments for patients quicker, while also reducing the cost of research and development. Other news includes: lab models of pain ...

Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a plan to build a 77-bed pediatric mental health hospital. Resistance to such ...

“A tenet of virology is that you go after one of the proteins on the surface that generates a good immune response, and that’s what you target. This principle has withstood the test of time because we ...