Healthcare

Measles vaccine.

US loses measles elimination status amid surge in cases: Report

Claire Carter · November 13, 2026 10:50 pm

Apartment complex in DC

Black mold’s link to fatal DC shooting: What to know

President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

How Democratic healthcare ad blitz helped sink GOP Senate candidates

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at an election night event, early Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, in Detroit.

Abdul el Sayed teases ‘TrumpCare’ in support of universal healthcare

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a news conference.

House committee advances opioid bill senators call ‘weak’

Kimberly Leonard May 16, 2018 10:51 pm

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during an event about prescription drug prices in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, May 11, 2018, in Washington.

Cancer groups approach drug price overhaul with caution

Robert King May 16, 2018 10:48 pm

In this April 26, 2018, photo Noe Contrez carries a tray of romaine lettuce transplants as he walks next to a planter towed by a tractor at the EG Richter Family Farm in Puyallup, Wash. The farm sells most of it's lettuce to large local grocery store chains, and owner Tim Richter says that so far his farm hasn't been affected by warnings that romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, apparently has been contaminated with the E. coli bacteria. Richter says he urges consumers to stay away from bagged lettuce and to always cut and wash their own produce.

E. coli illnesses from contaminated lettuce spread to 32 states

Kimberly Leonard May 16, 2018 9:51 pm

Capt. Paul Kamphaus of the Clermont County Sheriff's Office handles a box of naloxone during a 2017 interview in Batavia, Ohio.

Why we support increasing access to naloxone

Marcelo Bigal May 16, 2018 9:28 pm

This photo shows a giant model of a mosquito, which is part of the "Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World" exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Smithsonian opens exhibit featuring contagious diseases

Kimberly Leonard May 16, 2018 7:48 pm

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room at the White House, Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Washington.

When the Delta crew asked if there was a doctor on board, they got a yes — from the surgeon general

Kimberly Leonard May 16, 2018 5:41 pm

Vermont law allows patients to buy cheaper drugs from Canada

Kimberly Leonard May 16, 2018 5:22 pm

Judge overturns California’s assisted suicide law

Kimberly Leonard May 16, 2018 5:03 pm

Attorney Michael Cohen walks down the sidewalk in New York on Wednesday. Federal agents who raided the office of President Trump's personal attorney, were looking for information about payments to a former Playboy playmate and a porn actress who claim to have had affairs with Trump, two people familiar with the investigation said.

Top lawyer for Novartis retires following contract with Michael Cohen

Melissa Quinn May 16, 2018 4:42 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confer at the Capitol on May 10, 2018.

Trump tries to break America’s addiction to high drug prices

Washington Examiner May 16, 2018 4:29 pm

Daily on Healthcare: Azar blasts Democratic ideas on drug prices as ineffective ‘gimmicks’

Kimberly Leonard, Robert King, Philip Klein May 16, 2018 3:50 pm

Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks during an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

Senators threaten CMS chief with subpoena to testify on Medicaid fraud

Robert King May 16, 2018 2:22 pm