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

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

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

Washington’s vaccine wars are escalating again as Senate Democrats seek to build a paper trail around Health Secretary Robert ...

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 ...

Here in the U.S., infant formula has a good overall safety record. But the stakes are incredibly high if something goes wrong ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The FTC and four state attorneys general have sued the main professional organization for gender-affirming care clinicians.

AI is creating a new and largely overlooked strain on something fundamental to health,” write Sten H. Vermund and Patricia J.