Health

Traveling across multiple time zones can cause jet lag, a temporary sleep problem that happens when the body’s circadian rhythm hasn’t caught up to the destination time zone. Simon Marcus …

Federal health officials say the current E. coli outbreak is linked to organic whole bagged carrots and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms. Mychele Daniau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption …

With all the cooking, feasting and leftover-keeping that comes with the holidays, it can be hard to know how to keep food safe. Sometimes we just do what our families …

A technician at a Chinese pharmaceutical company works on breeding the plant sweet wormwood, used in creating artemisinin, the go-to medicine for killing the malaria parasite. Huang Xiaobang/Xinhua via Getty …

Earlier this year, a surprising story emerged about RFK Jr. — the newly named nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — and a parasitic brain …

If confirmed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have broad influence over federal agencies and health care policy — a prospect that worries many in public health given his history of …

Access to medical abortion pills could be restricted under the incoming Trump presidency. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP As millions of Americans were waking up last Wednesday …

Federal data shows that rates of new sexually transmitted infections are slowing in the U.S. It’s a rare sign of improvement that suggests prevention efforts are working.

President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a campaign rally in Georgia last month. Trump announced this week that he’s nominated Kennedy for the Secretary of Health and …

An analysis of brains at various stages of Alzheimer’s found that neurons called inhibitory neurons are the first to be affected by the disease.