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States vary in their policies for COVID vaccines this fall, which could affect availability and put many at odds with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: …

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta vividly remembers the day he impaled himself on a wrought iron fence. He had just turned 12, and he was running through the neighborhood …

The Democratic governors of three Western states — California, Oregon and Washington — say they will form a new public health partnership to preserve access to vaccines.

NhuNgoc Pham with her family on the day she received her doctorate in public health from Tulane University. After living through Katrina as a teen, she now researches post-traumatic growth. …

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Dr. Elizabeth Soda, who is one of more than 1,000 federal health workers urging Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: …

NPR’s Juana Summers talks with infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong about the new rules regarding access to COVID-19 vaccines.

In Gedaref Sudan, a former bus station is serving as a cholera clinic. Many of the patients are Sudanese who have been displaced by the country’s civil war. Giles Clarke/Getty …

A patient infected with mpox shows lesions on his body at a treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Glody Murhabazi/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Glody Murhabazi/AFP/via …

People who inherit two copies of a common gene variant are very likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Learning you are one of those people can be tough. Three scientists are …

Bowman, N.D., has about 1,400 residents, and they rely on Southwest Healthcare Services. The facility joined with other rural hospitals in the state to form a network that allows it …