Public Health

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a drug from Merck designed to treat a progressive and life-threatening lung

Daniel Grill | Tetra Images | Getty Images Altimmune on Wednesday said its experimental drug helped patients shed weight but

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed the 2024 U.S. measles outbreak on WAMU’s

A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023.  Lee Smith

Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that

Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning

In this photo illustration the UnitedHealth Group logo displayed on a smartphone screen.  Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket

A person rides past a Walgreens truck, owned by the Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., in Manhattan, New York City, U.S.,

The Federal Trade Commission has long argued that competition makes the economy better. But some states have stopped the agency from blocking

When she was in ninth grade, Fiona Lu fell into a depression. She had trouble adjusting to her new high