Our senses of hearing and sight can naturally start to dim, but hearing aids are better and less expensive than ever before.

The common signs of stroke affect a person’s balance, eyes, face, arms and speech. These signs require timely action and are ...

Protesters are rallying against the closure of a major gender-affirming care center for kids and teenagers at Children’s ...

Measles cases in the U.S. have reached a more than 30-year high. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting ...

Kennedy Jr. became the nation’s top health official in February, pediatrician Jeff Couchman started getting a lot of ...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the nation's top health official in February, pediatrician Jeff Couchman started getting a ...

Cuts to public health and Medicaid don’t make costs disappear — they just shift them downstream to the health care system. Hospitals are already seeing the fallout: longer wait times, overburdened ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of June 30-July 4.

Inside one of those nondescript rooms last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent panel that makes vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

To improve access to care, many professional organizations have advocated for classifying obesity as a disease. However, the ...

People in England are to be offered a “sponge on a string” test to identify a precursor to one of the deadliest cancers.