Any NYT reader looking at the buzzy front page headline below would immediately think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a madman. Can he really be an advocate for repealing the polio vaccine, a disease ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza ...

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

Long-term smokers often have a chronic cough. They may get used to it, and perhaps also to being winded after climbing stairs. But there are good reasons to take these symptoms seriously, as they can ...

Anthropologist Alice Roberts describes how secrets about diseases can be uncovered from skeletons building workers and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, ensuring its longevity, while ICD-10 was implemented with much handwringing, among other notable milestones. These major healthcare decisions ...

North County Rep. Elise Stefanik moved one step closer to being confirmed as President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the ...

The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear ...

A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the ...

Bird flu is now believed to be widespread in Massachusetts and is likely present even in places where there has not been a ...

Uganda announced Thursday that a nurse, 32, had died of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, amid a new outbreak of the deadly ...

As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...