The Indian Health Service has a program that can pay for outside appointments when patients need care not offered at ...

The vaccine, which would prevent the opioid from entering the brain, has seen success in animal studies. Meanwhile, methadone treatments, touted as a key to ending the fentanyl epidemic, remain ...

Department of Agriculture report shows hunger in the U.S. to be at the highest it's been in nearly a decade. SNAP and WIC are also in the news.

During Rite Aid's bankruptcy, hundreds of stores were closed and its pharmacy benefit company Elixir was sold. Now that it has restructured, the pharmacy chain will be private with a smaller retail ...

Hundreds of thousands of emergency responders have more challenges such as burnout, PTSD, and budgetary issues, Stateline reports. Among other news: Proposition 36 in California; a Juul payout; ...

Ralph de la Torre has been subpoenaed by a Senate committee to answer questions over the failed hospital chain but is refusing to appear, and instead is asking to wait until Steward's bankruptcy ...

A new study from the Mayo Clinic says that long covid rates are similar between vaccinated and unvaccinated people, running against conventional wisdom. Critics say the study may be skewed by its ...

As states wait for Deloitte to make fixes in computer systems, Medicaid beneficiaries risk losing access to health care and ...

A 14-year-old is accused of shooting and killing four people Wednesday at a high school outside of Atlanta. Vox explains how the vast majority of shooters don’t spontaneously decide to commit mass ...

Neither Democratic nominee Kamala Harris nor GOP nominee Donald Trump have released medical records that would assure voters they are healthy enough to effectively serve as president.

Editorial writers discuss these public health issues.

Of the 125 viruses found in 461 diseased animals, 39 had a higher potential of infecting other species, researchers found. Meanwhile, a new MRNA-based vaccine to combat mpox might be coming soon.