President Joe Biden’s former director of the National Institutes of Health said that the institutes never funded “transgender ...

Politics / The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution. Gregg Gonsalves By now, there have been countless stories ...

Once-a-day tablet for bladder cancer to be rolled out on NHS - Hundreds of patients are expected to benefit from the ...

A new National Academies report offers a blueprint to expand interventions to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic centimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're all connected.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as ...

In a new study, researchers found that type 2 diabetes can “rewire" the brain in ways similar to early Alzheimer’s disease.

Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

Healthy foods do not have to be expensive or take up a lot of time to prepare. Learn how to put balanced meals together.

NPR obtained emails that went out last week to leaders at health agencies offering to transfer them to postings in tribal communities. Officials close to Dr. Anthony Fauci got the offer.

A meningitis outbreak is sweeping through Ghana’s Upper West region, exposing a struggling health care system. With ...

A popular hashtag on social media encourages users, primarily women, to lose weight with tactics rooted in "toxic motivation.