The ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel newly empowered by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is just getting started ...

State workers who for decades have been pivotal in identifying U.S. cancer trends, curbing new cases, and improving screening ...

We cannot and will not gamble with our patients’ health or the health of our communities,” write the presidents of the AAFP, ...

A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the preservative thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines, a largely symbolic move ...

In the debate over Medicaid reform, one dubious claim keeps getting tossed around. But the evidence for it is weak.

Policymakers will need to address the true drivers of high drug prices here at home, while simultaneously pressing our allies ...

Eric Green said the process leading to his ouster as a NIH institute director by the Trump administration remains "shrouded ...

The Senate parliamentarian struck down several major health care measures in Republicans’ tax bill, including Medicaid ...

A divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that states can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, ...

As federal grants to study the use of race in clinical algorithms dry up researchers are looking for other funding sources.

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Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, putting cancer patients in more than 100 countries ...