Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding often need to take prescription medications. The use of prescription medication during pregnancy and while breastfeeding has increased over the past several ...

Some government webpages briefly went dark Friday after federal agencies were told to comply with a White House order on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted ...

As secretary of the HHS, Kennedy would oversee major health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the ...

The FDA has approved Journavx, an oral medication for treating pain that doesn't target the brain like addictive opioids.

The CDC on Friday is scrubbing a swath of HIV-related content from the agency’s website as a part of Trump’s broader effort ...

New poll shows about half of U.S. adults believe it is a good thing for adults to use weight-loss drugs if they are ...

The drug, Journavx, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, reduced pain after surgery in clinical trials. Experts hope it can lead to fewer opioid prescriptions.

There were 91 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks reported in the United States in the first week of December, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), exceeding the ...