Alcohol use increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. A new study shows that it’s still high
A surge of stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic in ...
7.4 million Americans could gain Medicare or Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs under Biden proposal
Millions more senior citizens and lower-income Americans could obtain coverage for costly anti-obesity drugs under ...
One major challenge facing Trump’s chosen health leaders: Keeping politics separate from science
The announcements came Friday night, one after another, President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for the country’s ...
Bird flu virus detected in raw milk in California
Bird flu virus has been found in a batch of raw milk sold in California, ...
They’re up to 70% of the American diet. But the US has no policy on ultraprocessed foods
Twenty-year-old Sam Srisatta is giving a month of his life to science — research that ...
Bird flu virus isolated from hospitalized Canadian teen shows signs of human adaptation
The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key ...
Solving a 40-year mystery, scientists ID chemical found in millions of Americans’ tap water
For more than four decades, scientists have noticed a mysterious chemical in the treated drinking ...
Less-potent fentanyl pills may be playing a role in decrease of US overdose deaths, DEA says
The US Drug Enforcement Administration says that less fentanyl is present in the nation’s illicit ...
Survivor of suicide attempt receives innovative face transplant: ‘It was just a miracle’
Editor’s note: This story contains a discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or ...
Trump names Dr. Mehmet Oz to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator for the ...
