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After receiving FDA approval in 2023, the first over-the-counter birth control pills in the U.S. hit shelves last spring. A ...

A companion editorial cites poorer access to health care, physical inactivity, and guns in the home, among other factors.

An all-hands meeting at the CDC to discuss the attack on the agency on Friday was brief and chaotic, staffers say.

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya has offered a new explanation for why the federal government canceled $500 million in contracts ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya offered an explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts that didn't align with ...

After a gunman shot up CDC headquarters, employees had harrowing stories and questions about "disinformation that caused this ...

Good morning. Today, we read about the implications of mRNA funding cuts on national security, see layoffs at gene-editing ...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding of the development of messenger RNA vaccines is not ...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding for mRNA vaccines has alarmed scientists. But it is ...

Helen Mirren hides in a graveyard in a new trailer for The "Thursday Murder Club," which arrives on Netflix on Aug. 28. Mirren portrays a retired spy.