SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced a new California-led public health initiative, tapping former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials who publicly clashed with the Trump administration, including the former agency chief who warned that the nation's public health system was headed to "a very ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Ran Barzilay, a psychiatrist and researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, won’t be letting his 9-year-old son get a smartphone before age 13.

He made the decision based on data from his recent study, published in the medical journal Pediatrics, which linked getting a smartphone at a young age to worse health ...Read more

Holidays can be exceptionally stressful for children, adolescents, parents and families who have food or body concerns. Pediatricians are in a prime position to anticipate potentially stressful food-related situations and provide guidance and support to navigate holiday gatherings. Some children worry about what or how much to eat. Others dread ...Read more

Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer.

Not one U.S. citizen has applied.

West River Health Services in Hettinger, a town of about 1,000 residents in the southwestern part of the state, has four options, and none is good.

The hospital could fork over $100,000 for the Trump...Read more

Zoe Clarke became a hospital registered nurse two and a half years ago, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother.

Clarke, an ICU nurse in Asheville, North Carolina, wants to get her master’s degree to become a nurse practitioner or a certified registered nurse anesthetist — occupations in high demand — and eventually work...Read more

A highly pathogenic avian influenza was found in a herd of dairy cattle in Wisconsin, the latest in an ongoing outbreak of the disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday.

The disease was confirmed through routine milk testing, the federal agency said in a statement. It is the first known case of HPAI in dairy cattle in Wisconsin. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The dreaded norovirus — the "vomiting bug" that often causes stomach flu symptoms — is climbing again in California, and doctors warn that a new subvariant could make even more people sick this season.

In L.A. County, concentrations of norovirus are already on the rise in wastewater, indicating increased circulation of the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifteen new cases of measles have been reported in the Upstate since Tuesday, more schools have had infected students, 303 people are in quarantine and 13 in isolation, the South Carolina Department of Public Health reported Friday.

The total number of cases in South Carolina related to the Upstate outbreak is 126 and 129 ...Read more

We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act.

But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance ...Read more

In a recent "Meet the Press" appearance, Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., joined a growing number of Republicans who are speaking out against Obamacare. One of his lines of attack: that the Affordable Care Act fueled health care consolidation.

“What Democrats did 15 years ago was they radically changed all health care in America. They moved all ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: In the past few years, my mom passed away, and I lost a dear friend. The holidays were always a special time for us. Since their deaths, the holidays are really hard. Do you have any suggestions for managing this grief?

ANSWER: The holiday season can be especially challenging if you're mourning the death of someone close to ...Read more

Alaska's U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan were among four Republicans who joined the chamber's Democrats to vote in favor of a measure that would have extended health insurance subsidies used by millions of Americans, including thousands in Alaska.

Still, the bill failed to reach the 60-vote threshold to pass amid opposition from most...Read more

WASHINGTON — Health insurance premiums for Obamacare-inspired policies are about to double for Californians, as hope Congress will come to the rescue got a big setback Thursday

COVID-era credits for people with Affordable Care Act marketplace health care policies will expire at the end of this month. That’s likely to mean an increase ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to pass a Democratic measure extending health insurance subsidies that help millions of Americans afford medical coverage.

Four Republicans voted with Democrats in support of the bill to keep the subsidies going for three more years, but that was short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected plans from Republicans and Democrats to ease soaring health care costs, making it more likely many people face health insurance premiums that could double shortly.

COVID-era credits for people with Obamacare-inspired health care policies will expire at the end of this month.

Senate Democrats ...Read more

Florida resident Keith Jones says his Affordable Care Act insurance plan was changed multiple times this year without his permission. Now the 52-year-old is struggling with his health problems while facing large premium bills he says he shouldn’t owe.

The third time, he sought help from an insurance agent, who got Jones on the phone with the ...Read more

A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model to ...Read more

As health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wields one of the louder megaphones the federal government has. Yet he insists he doesn’t want to impose his opinions on Americans.

“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy told a Democratic congressman in May.

Kennedy once expressed different ...Read more