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The FDA will soon decide whether to approve the first flu vaccine that uses the same mRNA technology as COVID-19 shots. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long questioned mRNA vaccines.
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Roger May for NPRRates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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Michigan's state health department says the two people who died had "significant underlying health conditions that may have been affected by the disease and related dehydration."
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Drones carrying medical supplies constantly crisscross the skies of Rwanda. The Trump administration is giving a major grant to the effort — and at the same time cutting aid to the country. -
Why food companies love labels like "organic" and "high protein," why our brains are misled by them — and how to avoid paying extra for marketing. -
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people. -
Michigan has announced the first two deaths related to an outbreak of illnesses caused by the Cyclospora parasite.
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Dozens of people who grew up around Philadelphia learned decades later they shared the same biological father, a pioneering infertility doctor.
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Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people. -
They are the first reported deaths linked to a massive outbreak of the intestinal illness that began in May. -
The fruits on display in American grocery stores today are sweeter than ever, and getting a little more so all the time. They cost more, and people are willing to pay. -
Tens of millions of seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D, a drug prescription insurance plan, will likely face higher costs next year.
