The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

This American Heart Month, cardiologist Dr. Nidal Ganim explains how smartwatches and rings can track your heart health and why stress, emotions, and lifestyle choices matter.

Colorectal cancer has become the deadliest cancer for U.S. adults under 50 over the last two decades, and doctors say diet, lifestyle and gaps in preventive care are helping drive the trend.

Bayer has agreed to a proposed $7.25 billion deal to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits that blame Roundup for causing cancer.

Harris County officials will hold a press conference in Channelview to announce the demolition of a nuisance property due to safety concerns and multiple fires.

The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans will no longer treat tooth decay with dental fillings containing mercury.

The lawsuit against the multimedia messaging app's company is just one in a series of actions that the state has taken against social media companies.

Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: whether gene editing might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol.

The Thai government is urging coffee chains to cut sugar in drinks by half to combat health issues.

Intersex Texans fear House Bill 229, which defines gender based on the reproductive system, could increase surgeries on intersex children and create challenges to obtaining sex changes on government documents.

A young cancer patient at one of the remaining New York City hospitals where nurses are on strike says he misses his regular caregivers.

The need to move a loved one into a nursing home or assisted living facility often comes suddenly — after a fall, a medical crisis or the loss of a caregiver.

A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states.

Democrats are focusing on health care in the November elections and making it a key issue.

Four people have died and three others have required a liver transplants after eating the death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter.

U.S. births slightly decreased in 2025.

The course includes examples of when abortion is permitted to protect the life of the patient, but many experts say the complications women face in pregnancy are impossible to capture in a brief presentation.

The Trump administration has launched TrumpRx, a website it says will help patients buy prescription drugs directly at a discounted rate.

The Mexican state of Jalisco has issued a health alert and mandated face masks in schools due to a measles outbreak in the state capital.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors.

A new study reveals that cancer patients diagnosed during the early COVID-19 pandemic had worse short-term survival rates than a similar group before the pandemic.

Company and federal officials said the Boar's Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly 2024 listeria food poisoning outbreak is back in business.

A global hunger monitoring group says that famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, where acute malnutrition has been registered in two more towns there.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is recommending that surgeons delay gender-affirming surgeries until patients turn 19, including chest, genital and facial surgeries.

The Pan American Health Organization has issued an alert due to a surge in measles cases across the Americas, with Mexico reporting the highest numbers.

A Travis County judge on Wednesday ruled against a request to stop the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute, but because the lawsuit is still in play, the fund can’t go into effect.

Minute Maid helped make orange juice a year-round morning staple in 1946, when it started shipping cans of frozen juice around the U.S. But 80 years later, the brand’s parent company is halting sales of frozen juice concentrates in the U.S. and Canada, saying it wants to focus on the fresh juices that customers now prefer.

We're back In The kitchen with Kroger. In 2026, wellness is getting a much-needed reset. It's no longer about cutting everything out or chasing extremes. Kroger pharmacist and wellness specialist Derek David showed us how small, everyday choices can lead to better energy, better health, and habits you can actually keep.

A Democratic lawmaker is raising new concerns about a Food and Drug Administration program designed to drastically shorten the review of certain drugs.