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When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, they agreed that the authority over buying shots from drug makers should rest with the health secretary. The bill’s...

Annabel RackhamHealth reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesGPs and other healthcare professionals in England should help identify potential problem gambling, in the same way they look for alcohol and smoking addiction, new guidance says.In its first recommendations on gambling, the National...

When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few isolated herds and disappear as quickly as it had appeared. Instead, the virus has infected more than 900 herds and...

Carol Downer, a leader in the feminist women’s health movement who drew national fame for her role in a case known as the Great Yogurt Conspiracy — so named because she was charged with practicing medicine without a license...

An email obtained by The Times shows that one committee leader, Representative Sharon Wylie, a supporter of the industry, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. “Thank you for being open to the compromise approach,” she...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting."I'm superwoman," Towana Looney told The Associated...

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary nominee, awaits his confirmation hearing, financial disclosures released Wednesday show that he is saddled with millions in debt, but is positioned to earn millions from book deals.In...

BBCMeanwhile, Sam Higginson, the chief executive of Royal Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, says he is "deeply disappointed" that the redevelopment of his North Devon District Hospital may have to wait until 2038."For us that's too far in the...

“There is no treatment available for your son. We can’t do anything to help him.”When Fernando Goldsztein...

Multiple federal health agencies have stopped releasing some key health information — including updates on some outbreak investigations — amid a department-wide communications "pause" ordered by the Trump administration, though many other "mission critical" updates are still being released,...