Health

Deagreez/iStockphoto/Getty Images Myra Cheng, a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, has spent a lot of time listening to undergraduates on campus. “They would tell me about how a …

The CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service was on the chopping block last year by the Trump administration. Scientists had a study assessing COVID vaccine effectiveness suppressed by its leadership.

The fight over an ingredient in weedkiller has pitched MAHA activists – those aligned with the beliefs of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy – against President Trump’s …

Funded by PEPFAR, this clinic in Kitwe, Zambia, provided medicines for patients who are HIV positive. President Trump’s foreign aid overhaul interrupted operations in 2025. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide …

A man closes the door of a shop in Cairo, Egypt, to comply with the government’s order for businesses to shut down nightly at 9 p.m. Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua News Agency/via …

The Trump administration has reclassified medical marijuana on the federal level, from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images …

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria. Researchers now think that these mosquitoes — and the disease they …

Suicide rates among teens and young adults declined in the two years after the launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Sierra Smith holds her son, Travis, whose deafness was successfully treated with gene therapy. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals hide caption toggle caption Regeneron Pharmaceuticals The Food and Drug Administration approved the first …

Sierra Smith holds her son, Travis, whose deafness was successfully treated with gene therapy. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals hide caption toggle caption Regeneron Pharmaceuticals The Food and Drug Administration approved the first …