Healthcare

Sam Friedman, center, looks on during a "No Hate in WA State" rally

Five states with youth transgender medicine and sports on the ballot: What to know

Gabrielle M. Etzel · October 28, 2026 7:00 am

Red Cross workers cary body of person who died from Ebola in Congo.

Ebola outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases in Congo as deaths near 5,000

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Republican midterm convention.

Paxton touts ‘first’ detransition clinic opening in Texas after settlement with children’s hospital

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden speaking during the daily briefing at the White House, right.

Liberal group releases plan to woo MAHA voters for Democrats

A collage of RFK, Means, and a food diagram.

MAHA activists jaded by top ally’s departure from White House

FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.

Musk says Neuralink will bring ‘close symbiosis’ with artificial intelligence

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 5, 2023 8:03 pm

Youth smartphone use connected to future mental health problems: Study

Breccan F. Thies June 5, 2023 7:00 am

Insulin can cost an uninsured patient between $120 to $400 per month. By comparison, some generics would only cost about $4. (AP Photo)

Berberine: Experts warn ‘nature’s Ozempic’ not worth its weight

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 4, 2023 10:00 am

Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, to encourage parents of young children to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Biden’s new CDC pick backed some of the strictest COVID-19 restrictions in US

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 3, 2023 3:00 am

Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C., to encourage parents of young children to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Biden picks former North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen for CDC: Report

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 2, 2023 1:17 pm

South Carolina chips away at nanny-state healthcare

Andrea Ruth June 2, 2023 5:01 am

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services removes vaccination mandates for healthcare workers

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 1, 2023 8:50 pm

Maternal age rising as birthrate declines, new data show

Gabrielle M. Etzel June 1, 2023 7:24 pm

Abortion-rights supporters rally at the State Capitol, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma Supreme Court overturns two abortion bans

Gabrielle M. Etzel May 31, 2023 3:36 pm

GOP Nevada governor signs protections for out-of-state abortion seekers and providers

Gabrielle M. Etzel May 31, 2023 3:33 pm

A lab technician working a bottle containing for COVID-19 vaccine testing at Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 25, 2020. Thai health officials said that scientists in Thailand have had promising results in testing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on mice, and have begun testing on monkeys.

COVID-19 vaccines: The latest on recommendations and public attitudes

Gabrielle M. Etzel May 31, 2023 9:00 am

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, is escorted by prison officials into a federal womenâs prison camp on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, in Bryan, Texas. Holmes will spend the next 11 years serving her sentence for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes reports for 11-year prison sentence

Rachel Schilke May 30, 2023 6:36 pm