Health

Large datasets can be useful research tools, but current government efforts to gather medical records depend on policy and technology that falls short of protecting people’s privacy.

The order seeks to reduce the number of routine vaccines recommended for children, and the mothers who campaigned for it stood beside the president at the signing.

Dr. Erica Schwartz will be the first Black woman to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising that she will show “radical transparency and unwavering scientific integrity” in the role. But she faces political headwinds and practical challenges as she starts the job. Schwartz, who was confirmed Wednesday by the Senate to run […]

The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead.

Lawmakers head into the new year with enhanced ACA tax credits already lapsed and a Jan. 30 government funding deadline still unresolved.

A study in JAMA Psychiatry found that teen girls in states with bans reported higher rates of suicidal ideation than girls in states without them, whether or not they had ever been pregnant.

The United States is facing a number of major disease outbreaks, from foodborne cyclosporiasis to vaccine-preventable measles.

Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman on trial for strangling her three young children in 2023, argued before a jury Tuesday that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for their deaths. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, they said, had been experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous medical condition that alters […]

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused.

A ProPublica investigation found the April cuts reached the unit that reviews line-of-duty fire deaths and a landmark firefighter cancer registry, though the administration later reinstated some staff.