The controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank fields would secure around 3500 Scottish jobs and boost the UK economy by £28billion ...

LOS ANGELES >> Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world, experts in California say the disease appears to be ...

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats ...

WASHINGTON — An anti-abortion group is calling for a Senate investigation into the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) funding of research that used fetal organs and tissue. In January of this year, ...

Prominent Republicans and others have falsely claimed this week that the shots are linked, despite years of data showing they are safe.

The Health Resources and Services Administration Aug. 12 announced a modernized framework for addressing national newborn screening topics, which includes evaluating conditions for inclusion in the ...

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A large population-based study led by researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Mass General Brigham suggests that genetic testing added to routine newborn ...

In Idaho, new mothers have ended up on a child abuse registry after testing positive for THC – a chemical found in marijuana.

In a contentious interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made ...