Health

A Stanford-trained surgeon who pivoted to build a booming health tech start-up could be a major player in the upcoming campaign to “Make America Healthy Again.” Dr. Casey Means is...

Sally Froelich has been talking about aging for a long time. Which makes sense — she’s 95. She credits that focus as part of the reason she has aged so...

“If you’re having a can of Diet Coke every day, I do think that that is slightly too much,” dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine told me on a Zoom call in May....

An infant has died and 10 adults have been sickened amid a four-state listeria outbreak connected to ready-to-eat meat products, officials said. The outbreak has been tied to ready-to-eat meat...

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...