Health

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover a range of preventive services, including cancer screenings, statins and HIV-prevention medications.

A 106-year-old woman who still likes to fly is so extraordinary that even airport computers are stumped.

The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.

The results bring Eli Lilly’s pill orforglipron one step closer to becoming a new, needle-free alternative in the booming weight loss and diabetes market. 

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that the agency will announce, within three weeks, a series of studies aimed at identifying “environmental toxins” he claims are responsible for a dramatic rise in autism rates in children in the U.S.

Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by RFK Jr. are wrong and undermine trust in science. But a recent three-day gathering shows his followers still believe in him.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday urged patients and doctors to check that their Ozempic prescriptions are legitimate after the agency seized several hundred units of fake versions of the diabetes drug in the U.S., NBC News reported.

Arika Trim died as Black mothers-to-be are three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes as white women.

A pill developed by GSK was found to be safe and effective in treating gonorrhea in a late-stage clinical trial, according to a study.

The announcement adds to a string of setbacks in Pfizer’s bid to win a slice of the booming market that Wall Street projects to be worth $150 billion.

A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a speech Friday to Food and Drug Administration staff, derided their past decisions, at one point saying that the agency had become “a sock puppet” for the industries it was meant to regulate, NBC News reported.

U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five other states with active outbreaks. Texas grew by another 60 cases.