Mansfield Drug in Desoto Parish will relaunch as Health Pharmacy Mart. The pharmacy, which has served the greater Mansfield and DeSoto Parish area for more than 60 years, is joining the Health Mart ...

Planned cuts to Medicaid and CHIP will put more than 79 million people at medical risk. But resistance is mounting.

More than 6 million Americans benefit from the Low Income Energy Assistance Program, but the Trump administration has fired the program's entire staff.

Several agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services are facing job cuts by the Trump administration. These ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is reporting that a second child in Texas who contracted the measles has died.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of the drugs, instead placing a focus on ...

WASHINGTON — Former heart surgeon and TV pitchman Dr. Mehmet Oz was confirmed Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and ...

Critics say that in addition to having significant conflicts of interest, Oz is now poised to help enact Trump’s agenda.

Attorneys representing families of the Impact Plastics employees and contractor who died strongly disagreed with the findings ...

“What’s happening … is a reflection of the sprawling bureaucracy that’s actually making America sick and costing hundreds of ...

Sue Sheridan's baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell's 15-year-old son, Lewis, ...

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