Fenit Nirappil

Trump directed a panel headed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to assess “the prevalence of and threat” posed by SSRIs, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.

Despite litigation, federal officials are moving to cut off funding for efforts to improve the health of transgender people, leaving organizations in limbo.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators he would apologize if data shows vaccines don’t cause autism, but he cited a poorly conducted study to counter the dozens that show they do not.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s repeated support for vaccines during Senate confirmation hearings follows a long history of disparaging them.

The order attempts to end federal funding or support for gender-transition care for people under the age of 19. It is set to face legal challenges.

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks.

The covid wave this winter is less severe compared with previous years, with hospitalization rates down and wastewater levels lower.

As the incoming Trump administration pushes back against water fluoridation, several Florida communities are already abandoning the long public health practice. 

Public health experts caution that the human metapneumovirus cases are part of the typical ebb and flow of respiratory virus seasons.

Alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, Vivek Murthy said. Only Congress has the power to mandate changes to warning labels.