The average age of first-time mothers in the U.S. has risen to almost 30, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). New…
Lifestyle factors, such as regular exercise and healthy eating, accounted for less than a quarter of the optimism-lifespan association in the study, indicating that other factors may be at play.…
A Michigan judge on Tuesday overturned a law requiring a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion can be administered in the state. Judge Sima Patel ruled that the law conflicted…
A handful of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday brought up concerns about how the Trump administration’s recent actions stand to affect their constituents at a budget hearing with Health and Human…
The Centers for Disease Control and Protection has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust, following…
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on the fiscal 2026 budget…
A new poll shows few Americans say the Trump administration is handling the measles outbreak responsibly. The Reuters/Ipsos survey measured 31 percent of respondents as saying the Trump administration is handling the outbreak responsibly, while 40…
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday morning will testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the fiscal 2026 budget for the department…
President Trump’s second choice to serve as surgeon general has pitted some members of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement against allies of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)…
An ambitious House bill to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars and pay for part of it by slashing Medicaid spending faces a rocky path in the Senate,…
Louisiana’s attorney general is investigating a second case involving New York doctor Margaret Carpenter after she allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion medication to another woman in the state, this time located…
The Medicaid portion of the House GOP’s massive domestic policy bill would result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage by 2034, and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to…