As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health ...

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda. In the year that US Health and Human Services ...

The County of Santa Barbara Health Department along with The Chesley Initiative, CenCal Health, the James S. Bower Foundation, and ...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle ...

Along with disciplining doctors, the Board of Medicine can set guidelines and rules for best medical practices.

Fewer US women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggests the ...

The bills, one brought by Gov. Ned Lamont, and a second by the Public Health Committee, which will hold a public hearing on the bills Wednesday, clarify and strengthen Connecticut’s control over ...

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images The new food pyramid says it all. In January, the federal government released updated dietary ...

On January 21, 2026, the advocacy organization, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), and additional plaintiffs on January 21, ...

A key U.S. federal vaccine advisory panel has decided not to move forward with efforts to halt recommendations for COVID mRNA vaccines, according to a report by the Washington Post. Some advisers ...

Maybe getting on a plane or taking an 8-hour road trip is the last thing on your mind after giving birth, or maybe you can't wait to introduce long-distance friends and family to your new (so adorable ...