Healthcare

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Senators launch investigation into RFK Jr. over alleged lies in confirmation testimony

Emily Hallas · November 12, 2026 3:40 pm

Blood samples and test results in a clinical medical laboratory.

Doctors encourage prostate cancer blood test for younger men

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins.

Trump administration fast-tracks ibogaine research for PTSD

Collage of Abdul el Sayed speaking, left, and President Donald Trump, right, speaking with a red USA hat on.

El Sayed makes unusual legacy play in bid to get ‘brand manager’ Trump to embrace ‘Medicare for all’

Angela Ferrell-Zabala, Executive Director of Moms Demand Action.

Doctors group calls for firearm makers to pay costs of gun violence

History-defining question: Will 18 million ‘temporary’ jobless get their jobs back?

Cassidy Morrison May 9, 2020 4:00 am

Healthcare workers prepare tests for COVID-19 at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Don’t bet on vitamin D to fight coronavirus, researchers warn

David Hogberg May 9, 2020 4:00 am

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference in Sarasota, Florida.

‘Safety is always first’: Florida to reopen barbershops and salons

Zach Halaschak May 8, 2020 8:47 pm

Melinda Gates gives Trump administration ‘D-minus’ on coronavirus response

Madison Dibble May 8, 2020 7:53 pm

Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York is ‘finally ahead of this virus’

Zach Halaschak May 8, 2020 7:26 pm

Cindy Steinberg, National Director of Policy and Advocacy for U.S. Pain Foundation, recovering from back pain after a workplace accident, testifies on "Managing Pain During the Opioid Crisis" before a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Washington.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers press Trump to issue executive order moving drug manufacturing out of China

Zach Halaschak May 8, 2020 5:59 pm

One in 4 say they wouldn’t get coronavirus vaccine

David Hogberg May 8, 2020 4:23 pm

High unemployment due to COVID-19 will escalate total suicides and fatal overdoses

Cassidy Morrison May 8, 2020 4:01 pm

Save our country, one state at a time

Lisa Nelson May 8, 2020 5:43 am

An NYPD traffic officer wearing personal protective equipment stands at a barricade after the city closed down a section of Bushwick Avenue due to COVID-19 concerns, Friday, March 27, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Travel from New York City seeded the nationwide COVID-19 crisis

Cassidy Morrison May 8, 2020 4:00 am

In a pool photo provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich., Monday, March 30, 2020.

Governors grapple with public flouting stay-at-home orders

Cassidy Morrison, David Hogberg May 8, 2020 4:00 am

NIH director: Rapid coronavirus test system has ‘about a 15% false negative rate’

Zach Halaschak May 7, 2020 7:59 pm