Ebola cases have increased almost 40% in a week in the current outbreak in Congo and Uganda as the death toll passes 200.

This week on "The Readout LOUD" podcast: new hope in treating Huntington's disease and a report card on RFK Jr.'s promises.

Making good on its threat, Eli Lilly has begun eliminating mandated price breaks to a few dozen hospitals that participate in ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Bob covers the money in health care, focusing on health insurance and hospitals. His stories delve into Medicare Advantage, opaque prescription drug benefits, and how much executives actually make. He ...

For this story, Boodman obtained email chains between Pfizer and health officials and conducted interviews with 10 state health departments, eight local health agencies, six health system pharmacists, ...

Nursing home residents who received at least one dose of shingles vaccine were 24 percent less likely to develop dementia, a ...

RFK Jr. presents funding intended to address mental illness and addiction, particularly among homeless people.

A wide gap exists between what Patrick Soon-Shiong says his cancer drugs can achieve and what they actually do, STAT's Adam ...

GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound have been on the market for a few years now. The ...

As a physician and former public health official, I have never been more concerned about those rates of congenital syphilis,” ...

A new infant botulism outbreak puts fancy formulas that position their products as safer than other options under scrutiny.