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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday he's naming eight new advisers to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine recommendations committee, after firing the committee's entire previous roster...

A widespread malware campaign is currently affecting millions of smart home devices, including TVs, streaming boxes, and tablets running Android software. A recent...

Women who tracked their menstrual cycle using smartphone apps have been warned about the privacy and safety risks of doing so.A report from the University of Cambridge's Minderoo Centre said the apps were a "gold mine" for consumer profiling...

For many patients with schizophrenia, other psychiatric illnesses, or diseases such as hypertension and asthma, it can...

As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much autonomy the agency’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, had.After all,...

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In less than five years, we will have access to an error-free quantum supercomputer – so says IBM. The...

Will the perfect storm of potentially life-changing, artificial intelligence-driven health care and the desire to increase profits...

Mills/Laity family photograph/PA WireThe failings of a doctor responsible for Martha Mills' care, who died from sepsis, amounted to "gross negligence" and were "particularly grave", a medical tribunal says.Her death gave rise to Martha's Rule in hundreds of hospitals...

Alison HoltSocial Affairs Editor, BBC NewsReporting fromThe Old BaileyFigueiredo familyNELFT is only the second NHS trust in England to have been charged with corporate manslaughter, with the only previous prosecution collapsing after two weeks. It was particularly hard to...