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A sign outside a mobile clinic offering measles and flu vaccinations on February 6, 2026 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A few months ago, a measles outbreak seemed poised to [Read More…]

Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — With a [Read More…]

Stock image of doctor and patient. (Westend61/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As heart, kidney and metabolic problems progress to more advanced stages, a person’s risk of developing several cancers also rises sharply, a new study [Read More…]

Psilocybin mushrooms stand ready for harvest in a humidified “fruiting chamber” in the basement of a private home on July 28, 2023 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. (John Moore/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The Food and [Read More…]

Close up of senior woman using cannabis at home (Getty/Emilija Manevska) (WASHINGTON) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order on Thursday reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The order moves [Read More…]

An air quality health advisory has been issued for New York City and the tri-state area due to high ozone levels, the National Weather Service announced on June 5, 2025, in United States. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu [Read More…]

Robert Kennedy Jr. appears before the Senate Finance Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy [Read More…]

Kids eating lunch at school (Tetra Images/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As President Donald Trump’s administration touts its new federal dietary guidelines, experts and officials suggest there’s a long road ahead before America’s students have [Read More…]

Photo of tick (rbkomar/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Weekly visits to emergency rooms for tick bites are at the highest level since at least 2017, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

In this stock image, an open bottle of Tylenol Extra Strength pain reliever is shown. (STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Taking acetaminophen, also known by the brand name Tylenol, during pregnancy had no effect [Read More…]

Stock photo of people commuting on e-bikes and scooters. (Maskot/STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — E-bikes and e-scooters led to a growing number of trauma injuries at one New York City hospital, according to a [Read More…]

Signage outside the Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (Megan Varner/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Cigarette smoking among U.S. adults continues to fall to [Read More…]

Pfizer logo (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Earlier this week, pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its partner Valneva announced that an experimental Lyme disease vaccine showed more than 70% efficacy in late-stage [Read More…]

Bottles of children’s ibuprofen, made for Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc., are being recalled due to the potential presence of a foreign substance. (NIH) (NEW YORK) — Nearly 90,000 bottles of children’s ibuprofen are being voluntarily [Read More…]

The healthcare.gov website on a laptop arranged in Norfolk, Virginia, US, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — When Jessica Chamberlain went to sign up for health insurance coverage [Read More…]

(MASSACHUSETTS) — A Massachusetts judge ruled on Monday in favor of medical organizations in their litigation against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his changes to federal vaccine policy. The judge temporarily blocked changes to [Read More…]

Bo Zaunders/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As many as 724,000 service members, their families and veterans may rely on health care at hospitals that face financial vulnerability, partly due to cuts in President Donald Trump’s [Read More…]

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon testifies during the House Natural Resources Committee hearing on Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill into [Read More…]

Tylenol (Acetaminophen) tablets are sold in a drugstore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 17, 2026. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Acetaminophen orders in emergency rooms for pregnant [Read More…]

A woman and child walk by a damaged building, struck days earlier, during the U.S.Israeli military campaign on March 4, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the U.S.-Israeli military escalation [Read More…]