Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

New advances allow scientists to study DNA, RNA, and gene activity in individual cells rather than in bulk tissue samples.

As public health challenges like suicide and rising chronic illness rates continue to strain health care systems, new ...

As the U.N.'s climate summit, COP29, gets underway in Azerbaijan this week, the effect of climate change on human health is ...

A new atlas maps human skeletal development, revealing key insights into bone formation, genetic links to arthritis, and ...

Scientists from around the world are making headway in compiling a Human Cell Atlas -- a deep dive into the myriad types of ...

We’re in the midst of a rapidly escalating global plastics crisis. More than 11 billion metric tons of virgin plastics were ...

President-elect Donald Trump has quickly begun assembling his administration ahead of his anticipated inauguration.

Dr. Richard Besser, former Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins Meet the Press Now to ...

During his presidential campaign, Kennedy developed a national profile for his criticism of the Covid vaccines and childhood ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of ...