MINNEAPOLIS — An architect of Gov. Tim Walz’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic will return to public service and advise the governor on the future stability of Minnesota’s hospitals and health systems.

Jan Malcolm has agreed to join Walz’s Cabinet as a senior adviser on hospitals and health systems, three years after she retired as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have conversations with young girls about whether they want to have children one day.

“I have these conversations with children starting at 8, 10, 12...Read more

A Denver food and cannabis investigator became suspicious of PolkaDot-branded chocolate bars sitting next to convenience store energy shots and nicotine pouches in January 2026.

Months earlier, California public health officials warned about PolkaDot-branded chocolate bars. California authorities destroyed more than US$3 million of ...Read more

Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system’s ability to fight and eliminate tumors.

Since the early 2000s, there have been over 120 promising clinical trials testing the use of mRNA vaccines ...Read more

It’s open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage, when people currently enrolled in private managed-care plans can either sign up for a new one or switch to original Medicare through March 31.

But there’s a catch: If people want to move to original Medicare and buy a supplemental Medigap insurance plan to cover some out-of-pocket costs, ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fielding pressure from the White House to relax his controversial approach to vaccine policies as the midterms near, but his most steadfast supporters are pressing for more aggressive action — like restricting covid-19 vaccines and pesticide use — to carry out the Make America ...Read more

My mother, Terrie Montgomery, was always organized, outspoken and deeply involved in our community. When she started repeating purchases and struggling to keep track of details, it took us months to name what was happening.

In Black families, many of us learn to push through difficulties and handle things privately, which means we might ...Read more

César Manuel González, 37, used to work with stone that was engineered to endure: dense, polished slabs designed to outlast the kitchens in which they were installed.

Engineered quartz countertops have surged in popularity in the home renovation market, with industry analysts estimating the global engineered stone market at around $30 billion...Read more

Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one May morning with a swollen face and a toothache. He refused the pain medication that his mom, Geneva Reynolds, tried to give him. He didn’t sleep or eat and cried constantly.

Within a few days, Reynolds became so desperate that she and her husband had to physically restrain Jonah, dumping pain medication down ...Read more

Smoking or living with cigarette smoke can accelerate age-related degeneration of the eyes, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine found, and it hurts young eyes more.

“Smoking is often assumed to accelerate aging by releasing tissue-damaging molecules called free radicals,” Dr. James T. Handa, principal investigator and chief of the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has blocked efforts by the Trump administration to withhold $600 million in health care grants from Illinois, California, Colorado and Minnesota, while the states’ lawsuit over the cuts proceeds.

The judge had previously issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the federal government from holding back the ...Read more

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.

Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive ...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York City Department of Health has confirmed the first case of a severe strain of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, in New York City.

Health officials said Friday that the case is travel related and there is no known local transmission at this time of the mpox clade I virus.

“Mpox spreads through close or ...Read more

E. coli illnesses in Florida, Texas and California of the deadly E. coli form have been linked by investigators to cheese from the Fresno, California, company Raw Farm, the FDA announced Monday morning.

Here’s what’s known so far about this outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.

Where have people been infected with E. coli in this outbreak?

There ...Read more

For decades, one of the greatest challenges to treating neurological disorders like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is that its symptoms often resemble those of several other conditions. Overlapping disorders are extremely common when it comes to neurological diagnoses.

A child who struggles to sit still, focus or complete ...Read more

An investigation into cosmetic surgery chains by KFF Health News and NBC News has prompted consumer warnings from industry groups representing plastic surgeons and a call for more transparency around physician disciplinary actions in California.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which represents 12,000 doctors, is now warning patients ...Read more

Eating disorders are conditions that occur in people who experience a difficult relationship with food. They may face extreme guilt with eating, a fear of weight gain and an unrealistic body image. These thoughts can disrupt and take over their daily lives.

There is no known cause for eating disorders but there are factors that may play a role....Read more

Legislation in at least eight states would expand the rights of doctors, nurses, hospitals and even insurance companies to refuse to provide or pay for care — from contraception and fertility services to medical marijuana and childhood vaccines — that conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.

For years, most states have had so-called...Read more

Thousands of low-income people living with HIV could be losing drug coverage as states impose limitations on HIV assistance programs amid constrained budgets — raising alarms over consistent access to lifesaving medications.

Many factors are putting budget constraints on state programs, including federal funding — which has remained flat ...Read more

John “Gabe” Horneff, an orthopedic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, had noticed a peculiar trend: Some patients taking GLP-1s would come in with significant tendon injuries from relatively minor physical excursion.

For example, some suffered tears in the rotator cuff in the shoulder area while doing simple housework like vacuuming or ...Read more