The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday classified the recall of Medtronic's embolization device as "most serious", following reports of the deaths of four patients.
March 18, 2025
HHS removes surgeon general’s gun violence advisory from its website
March 18, 2025
Stanley Tucci says he discovered his thyroid ‘was non-functioning’ while filming in Italy last year
March 18, 2025
Tracy Morgan says he is doing OK and that food poisoning was to blame for his taking ill during Monday's Knicks-Heat game
March 18, 2025
Texas arrested a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Houston area, the state attorney general said on Monday.
March 17, 2025
Widely used prescription medicines could get caught up in the Trump administration's tariff trade wars and EU retaliation.
March 18, 2025
Countries, including the United States, cutting down funding for life-saving global health projects could jeopardize vaccination programs that protect
March 18, 2025
The United Nations migration agency says it is scaling back or ending projects worldwide and firing staff following funding cuts led by the United States
March 18, 2025
Bill Gates is personally lobbying Trump administration officials to keep funding health programs worldwide, from childhood vaccination to HIV
March 18, 2025
A federal program designed to prevent targeted violence and terrorism in the U.S. has lost 20% of its staff after layoffs hit its probationary staffers
March 18, 2025
Man runs Boston Marathon for coworker who survived stroke at work
March 18, 2025
What we know about a Rhode Island doctor and professor who was deported to Lebanon
March 18, 2025
A judge looking into the murder of newborn babies by British nurse Lucy Letby said on Monday she would hear arguments why the inquiry should be paused, after requests from hospital
March 17, 2025
Drugmakers are urging the Trump administration and European Union officials to exclude medical goods from expanding tariff wars, hoping to avert price spikes on top-
March 18, 2025
‘Exercise snacks’ — even a few minutes a day — can boost your health
March 18, 2025
Coroner identifies fourth Walthall County tornado victim
March 18, 2025
'I want to go home': Guardianship hearing adjourned again for Vietnam veteran
March 18, 2025
Israel's sudden onslaught of air strikes overnight overwhelmed Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, medics
March 18, 2025
The return to hostilities in Gaza must cease and humanitarian aid and commercial essentials be allowed to enter the embattled territory, the emergency relief coordinator for the United
March 18, 2025
Tracy Morgan is a study in resilience. Here’s why
March 18, 2025
Shortstop Mookie Betts has returned to Los Angeles to continue recovering from an illness that will cause him to miss the Dodgers’ first two games of the regular season at the Tokyo Dome
March 18, 2025
Tracy Morgan says his medical incident was caused by food poisoning
March 18, 2025
A public inquiry examining how British nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies in her care should be suspended because new evidence casts real doubt on her
March 18, 2025
America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there
March 18, 2025
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.
March 18, 2025
3-year-old hospitalized after being trapped beneath a vehicle, police say
March 18, 2025
Health misinformation is everywhere. How do we determine what to believe? CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses how to navigate health misinformation with Emory University infectious disease researcher, Laurel Bristow. For more of “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta” listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
March 17, 2025
Boxing gym focuses on helping people fight addiction with a workout
March 18, 2025
Homeland Security officials say a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral
March 17, 2025
China's Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia, announced a slew of childcare subsidies this month and promised to "care" for new mothers by giving them a daily cup of free milk,
March 18, 2025
U.S. authorities on Monday said they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Lebanon last week after discovering "sympathetic photos and videos" of the former longtime
March 17, 2025
Thousands of Food and Drug Administration employees are returning to the office to find overflowing parking lots, cramped workspaces and missing equipment
March 17, 2025
The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly,
March 17, 2025
Britain's King Charles is still hoping to see Pope Francis during a state visit to the Vatican and Italy next month, a Buckingham Palace source said on Tuesday, more than a month
March 17, 2025
PepsiCo said Monday it’s acquiring the prebiotic soda brand Poppi for $1.95 billion
March 17, 2025
Texas woman arrested for providing ‘illegal abortions,’ Texas attorney general says
March 17, 2025
Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Pope Francis next month
March 18, 2025
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that a Houston-area midwife has been arrested and accused of providing illegal abortions, marking the first time authorities have filed criminal charges under the state’s near-total abortion ban
March 17, 2025
As bird flu continues to spread, Trump administration sidelines key pandemic preparedness office
March 17, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his first major initiative as the nation’s top health official to address chemicals in the American food supply. He directed the Food and Drug Administration to explore new rules to close a decades-old regulatory gap allowing companies to add ingredients without government review. Kennedy is targeting the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) provision that permits food manufacturers to self-certify certain ingredients without notifying federal regulators. The Department of Health and Human Services said a potential rule change would likely require companies to notify the FDA and submit safety data when adding new ingredients to food
March 17, 2025
Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But researchers discovered they can produce electrical signals like neurons.
March 17, 2025
Santa Fe authorities update timeline on the last days of Gene Hackman and his wife
March 17, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said that the agency is concerned about funding shortages in Afghanistan which could force closure of 80% of WHO-supported essential health
March 17, 2025
Gender-affirming hormone therapy is linked to lower depression in transgender adults, study shows
March 17, 2025
Medical myths are surfacing again. 5 tips to inoculate yourself against them
March 17, 2025
PepsiCo said on Monday it would buy prebiotic soda brand Poppi for $1.95 billion, expanding into the "healthier soda" category at a time when the company is battling
March 17, 2025
Sporadic violence broke out in North Macedonia on Monday as thousands of people demanded justice for 59 people killed in a nightclub blaze and called
March 17, 2025
Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that protects conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youths They want to undo restrictions that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear placed on the practice
March 17, 2025
Therapy chickens bring joy to those who need it the most
March 17, 2025
'Don't have the resources that they need': Hospital purposely understaffs to save money, nurse says
March 17, 2025
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts will not play in the two-game Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs because of an illness that’s lingered for the past week
March 17, 2025
Philly’s opioid addiction crisis is constantly evolving. Local health care workers and researchers explain some of the latest substances, side effects and treatments.
March 17, 2025
Drugmaker AstraZeneca has agreed to buy Belgium-based biotechnology firm EsoBiotec for up to $1 billion, it said on Monday, seeking to accelerate the development of its
March 17, 2025
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis will watch "very carefully" how the reciprocal tariff policy proposed by the United States unfolds in early April, Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan
March 17, 2025
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness