Create a smoke-free society by the year 2000,” said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop back in 1986. Nearly four decades later, ...

For decades, one of the world’s most contagious diseases was considered eradicated in the U.S. But today, measles is roaring ...

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A new study has found that people can lower their risk for dementia through exercise and, the more exercise, the lower the ...

Analysis shows EPA rollbacks of the HON rule would put overburdened communities at risk and benefit chemical plants that ...

Skeptics note that efforts to streamline the much-despised prior authorization system have failed twice before.

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A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to know about symptoms and vaccines.

Billionaire Mark Cuban is doubling down on his idea that medical school in the U.S. should be tuition-free. “There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For ...

The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes.

A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced ...