Dr_ Joseph Ladapo, a Nigerian-born physician with impeccable U_S_ medical credentials, says that requiring vaccinations for diseases like measles, polio and chickenpox amounts to government-imposed “slavery.”.
A neurosurgeon says there are “rays of hope” for a 12-year-old girl critically injured in a Minneapolis church shooting.
International officials say contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia could be the source of radioactive material behind recalls of imported shrimp.
The widening debate over vaccine mandates in the U.S. and recent moves to get rid of them for schoolchildren in Florida are pushing some states to take steps to protect vaccines for children and adults.
The Justice Department is drawing swift condemnation from gun rights groups and LGBTQ advocates alike after floating that it was considering restricting transgender people from owning guns — a move that would all but certainly face immediate constitutional challenges if ever implemented.
President Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and, as recently as last week, praised it as a major achievement.
The Trump administration is investigating Medicaid spending in at least six Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status.
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing.
The U.S. is purchasing enough doses of a new twice-a-year HIV prevention shot to share with up to 2 million people in poor countries by 2028.
Massachusetts insurance carriers will be required to cover vaccinations recommended by the state’s department of public health.
Federal health officials are warning that certain lots of RAWR Raw Cat Food Chicken Eats may be contaminated with H5N1 bird flu.
A bill that would let Texas residents sue out-of-state abortion pill providers for up to $100,000 has been passed by lawmakers and sent to the governor.
Federal officials have agreed to restore health- and science-related webpages and data following a lawsuit settlement with doctors' groups and other organizations.
Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases.
The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A team of human rights experts is faulting the world’s nations for not doing more to ensure minimum protections of people with disabilities in Gaza, whose numbers are growing since the onset of Israel’s war in the territory nearly two years ago.
At President Donald Trump's news conference, Fox News' Peter Doocy asked something that surely baffled those who avoided social media over Labor Day: “How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?”.
OpenAI and Meta are adjusting how their chatbots respond to teenagers and users showing signs of distress.
In a story published Aug. 29, 2025, about Social Security whistleblower Charles Borges, who had resigned after filing a complaint that alleged Department of Government Efficiency officials mishandled Americans’ sensitive information, The Associated Press erroneously reported that he was being represented in the case by The Project Government Accountability Office.
President Donald Trump has picked a former investor and critic of health regulations to oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials.
More companies are recalling tens of thousands of packages of imported shrimp that may contain radioactive contamination.
The CDC is in turmoil, with outside groups stepping in to handle work once done by the agency.
A New York City hospital and another city-run building were sources for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others.
Fire departments are increasingly switching to gear that doesn’t contain potentially cancer-causing chemicals.
A national group of Latino public health leaders has announced the launch of a new research institute, which they say is a response to the hundreds of millions in federal funding cuts related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The U.S. Education Department says Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity.
At least 95 people in more than a dozen states have been sickened in an outbreak of salmonella poisoning tied to recalled eggs.
The director of the U.N. World Food Program says it's “very evident” after a visit to Gaza that there is not enough food and that mothers and children are starving.
Federal health officials have scaled back FoodNet, a program that tracked food poisoning infections in the U.S. The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network has cut required monitoring to just two pathogens that cause infections, down from eight.
A study finds that AI chatbots often avoid answering high-risk suicide questions but are inconsistent with less direct prompts.
A judge has denied a request from a network of Maine clinics to force the federal government to restore Medicaid funding.
Climate change is fueling conditions across several states that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers.
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, a special “graduation party” was held at Carillion Clinic Children’s for children who were born in their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - or NICU for short.
California could become the first U.S. state to require restaurants to disclose common food allergens in each menu item under legislation being considered by state lawmakers.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights.
A trainee surgeon in Australia has been released on bail after being accused of secretly recording hundreds of medical colleagues in hospital restrooms.
India’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of all stray dogs that were removed from New Delhi streets after sterilization and immunization following an increase in the number of people who were bitten by dogs.
In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rötzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden.
The Alaska State Medical Board has approved preliminary language that could result in disciplinary action against medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
New York City officials have discovered a sixth death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment.
An internal CDC email reveals that the Georgia man who shot at CDC buildings on Aug. 8 likely tried to enter the campus two days earlier.
A medical museum in Philadelphia is redrawing its policies about collecting and displaying human remains.
Federal inspectors will assume direct oversight of a Boar's Head deli meat plant when it reopens after an deadly listeria outbreak.
Federal investigators looking at gender-affirming care providers demanded that at least one hospital hand over information about individual patients.
James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89.
A man accused of fatally shooting an “American Idol” music supervisor and her husband in Los Angeles will undergo a mental evaluation to determine if he's fit to stand trial.
States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.
For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken emergency action to ban the sale of a synthetic drug known as “designer Xanax” in his state.
A federal appeals court has upheld a law strengthening the rights of pregnant workers, vacating a judge’s earlier order that had stripped those protections from Texas state employees.
A series of panels convened by the Food and Drug Administration is raising concerns that the agency is skirting federal rules and promoting fringe views about antidepressants and other products.
An Italian hospital says a 20-year-old Palestinian woman has died after being transferred from Gaza for treatment.
Health officials are alerting hundreds of people who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins at Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that could exclude teachers, social workers and nurses if their employers engage in activities deemed illegal.
The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare if Congress does not act, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week.
An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its cancer center.
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials.
Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year.
New York’s legal marijuana agency allowed dozens of cannabis dispensaries to open too close to schools after regulators misread state law and are now pushing for a legislative fix to prevent the pot shops from having to relocate.
A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine asked a judge on Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to block federal money for abortion providers.
Gunfire aimed at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a man authorities say was angry over COVID-19 vaccines is the latest in a string of violence and harassment directed at health care workers amid hostility lingering from the pandemic.
Health officials in Sudan have launched a 10-day cholera vaccination campaign in the capital, Khartoum, to curb what humanitarians call a rapidly spreading outbreak.
After years of being told that red wine was good for heart health, more Americans appear to be heeding warnings that even moderate alcohol consumption can be unhealthy.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines.
Researchers with the Virginia Cancer Screening Research Network are looking for participants for a study that’s putting a new way of screening for cancer to the test.
