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The move would trigger an overhaul of scores of products on U.S. grocery store shelves. The plan was announced Tuesday afternoon by Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary.

The health secretary said he would prioritize studies into environmental causes while harshly discounting other factors scientists say are likely contributing to rising rates of the condition.

Diagnosed cases of autism in the United States are seeing an uptick, according to new data by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC experts were not made available to discuss the findings showing a rise in autism prevalence.

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious.

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It's a sign that a pandemic may be on the horizon.

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT could have saved tens of thousands of lives — if only we'd listened to the data back in the 1970s. Instead, fear of radiation, obsession with overdiagnosis, and bureaucratic hand-wringing kept this proven life-saving tool out of reach for decades. It's a case study of how good science can be silenced by flawed assumptions.

Health agency staffers describe a week of widespread uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done as thousands of "reduction in force" notices went out beginning April 1. To many it's the opposite of "government efficiency."

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.

Top U.S. Health Official Says Ebola Quarantine May Discourage Medical Volunteers

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said the DOGE-assisted cuts, which represent nearly 25% of the department's employees and impact FDA, CDC, NIH and other agencies, would save $1.8 billion per year.

Decades of progress to treat and prevent HIV could be unraveled, researchers say

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major overhaul Thursday that will eliminate 10,000 full-time employees from his department.

The welfare state discourages marriage by imposing financial penalties, promoting dependency, and weakening families.

Health officials are worried that measles cases in at least 12 states may be a harbinger of outbreaks of other preventable diseases.

As the anti-vaccine movement brings measles surging back, we must also recall why we need a vaccine for it

In January, the first person in the US died from bird flu. Learn what the symptoms are and how you can stay safe

Fighting anti-Semitism isn't RFK Jr.'s job.