Enhanced tax credits that have helped Americans offset the cost of Affordable Care Act health insurance for the last four years expired overnight.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration can continue to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.

Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new limits starting Thursday on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.

Officials say Pakistan has seen polio cases fall by more than half in 2025.

Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus.

The United States and Ivory Coast have signed a health deal that would require the U.S. to commit $480 million to the West African nation’s health sector.

Have a case of the holiday blues? A psychologist explains why many people feel down this time of year and offers tips to cope.

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus.

The American Academy of Pediatrics sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, seeking to block nearly $12 million in cuts to the group.

Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.

A new Department of Health and Human Services report reveals Medicaid programs made over $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died.

U.S. regulators have approved a pill version of the weight-loss drug Wegovy.

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways.

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement new work requirements for some Medicaid recipients.

U.S. officials are proposing new restrictions that are designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors.

Speaker Mike Johnson has stayed on message that a Republican health care package will help all Americans and not just those on Affordable Care Act plans.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

Missouri’s top prosecutor says China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

India’s air-quality crisis is deepened by unreliable data.

New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care.

A national survey shows teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana remains at record lows.

Four moderate House Republicans have broken ranks with Speaker Mike Johnson by supporting a Democratic petition to extend health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.

Fernando Moreno has been waiting for a kidney transplant for about two years.

A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health.

House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums for Affordable Care Act recipients.

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists.

Police say suspected militants have opened fire on a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing the officer and a passerby.

California is hiring former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to help launch a public health initiative in response to the Trump administration's changes to health guidance.