In recent health sector developments, pharmaceutical company Roche is aiming for a major share of the weight loss market, rivaling Danish company Novo Nordisk. Meanwhile, the US FDA warns Novo about ...

Autism researchers and advocacy leaders on Tuesday said they would form a new, independent committee to help guide autism ...

There is no one single cause of autism; rather, it is likely to be a result of a combination of genetic and environmental ...

A group of prominent scientists launched an independent autism advisory panel over fears that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has politicized the key federal autism advisory board he oversees.

It’s not just Minnesota where people have bilked Medicaid for millions. Federal auditors found $198 million “improper payments” for Medicaid-funded autism services in four states, and another $410 ...

Donald Trump sells price portals. His pick for surgeon general sells "informed consent." Measles doesn't care.

The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the ...

The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency.

Kate Movius moved among a roomful of County sheriff's deputies, passing out a pop trivia quiz and paper prism glasses.

The state Department of Health reaches its 125th year and pushes back against the vaccine skepticism of U.S. Health and Human ...

The FDA's top drug regulator, Tracy Beth Hoeg, MD, PhD, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to ...

The medical journal The Lancet did not pull any punches in a scathing editorial on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling the ...