Health

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Dr. Marty Makary Friday to lead the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a surgeon and author who opposed vaccine mandates and some other public health measures...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins University who’s made controversial claims about Covid, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration....

The Washington, D.C., Beltway publications left no doubt about who stood to lose the most after President Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services....

On Friday, Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced that communities in the state shouldn’t add fluoride to drinking water because of what he called the “neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims linking autism to childhood vaccinations are receiving new scrutiny now that President-elect Donald Trump has selected him to lead the Department of Health and...

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it will keep its alert for mpox at the highest level amid a surge in cases. A WHO committee made up of about a...

The top 100 most polluted cities in the world are all in Asia. Severe air pollution persisted in major Indian cities, including , and parts of in November 2024. Local residents were advised to...

The cost of generic drugs for many people could go up if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his promise to impose sweeping tariffs on products from China and other...

It’s never too late for a career change — even if you’re almost 70. After a 40-year-long career as a cabaret singer, D’yan Forest, who lives in New York City,...

The anxiety-reducing drug, Clonazepam, has been recalled after a potentially “life-threatening” label mix-up, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.  According to a release from the federal agency, Endo Inc....