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Federal officials have celebrated a striking drop in drug overdoses across the country. But state-level data shows that Black people are suffering significantly worse outcomes than white people. Overdose deaths [...]

Kamala Harris's campaign proposal to add home health care to Medicare was a sign of the program's growing power in American politics. In a presidential campaign cycle unusually light on [...]

The Biden administration said it would have saved $6 billion had the new prices been in effect last year. The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled the results of landmark drug [...]

The popularity of the Affordable Care Act has changed the political strategy of Republicans, who are no longer campaigning to end the law. Vice President Kamala Harris and her running [...]

Medical providers and public health experts worry that the health care system is poorly equipped to handle the influx. On a recent Friday in Albuquerque, as triple-digit temperatures stretched into [...]

The proposed regulation comes as California and Oregon brace for a punishing heat wave. President Biden on Tuesday called denying the effects of climate change ''really, really dumb'' and said [...]

The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors. The Biden administration said [...]

Immigration ''He allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails, and mental institutions -- to come into our country and destroy our country.'' -- Former President Donald [...]

The decision is expected to prompt a rush of litigation challenging regulations across the entire federal government, from food safety to the environment. The Supreme Court's decision on Friday to [...]

The percentages of Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native Americans without insurance have all fallen, often by around half, since the Affordable Care Act took effect, easing disparities in coverage. The [...]

The panel endorsed targeting a variant of the coronavirus that is now receding, though some officials suggested aiming at newer versions of the virus that have emerged in recent weeks. [...]

Among those who could not complete the process of renewing their Medicaid coverage, Black and Hispanic Americans were twice as likely as white people to lose their health insurance, a [...]

Byline: Coral Davenport and Noah Weiland For more than two years, a group of health experts, economists and lawyers in the U.S. government has worked to address a growing public [...]

For more than two years, a group of health experts, economists and lawyers in the U.S. government has worked to address a growing public health crisis: people dying on the [...]

The payment system amounted to one of the most forceful actions taken so far by agriculture officials who have raced to keep up with the spread of the virus among [...]

Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large -- with tentacles in every aspect of the nation's medical care -- that the effects of the hack were outsize. [...]

But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done. Additional testing of retail dairy products from across the country has turned up [...]

The expansion would extend largely free health coverage to 200,000 more low-income adults. But hurdles remain, including a likely veto by Gov. Tate Reeves. Mississippi lawmakers reached an agreement late [...]

The Health and Human Services Department finalized a rule prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, reversing a Trump-era policy. The Biden administration announced expansive new protections on [...]

Byline: Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be [...]

The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president's worries about [...]

There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread. Federal regulators have discovered fragments [...]

Since a new form of bird flu arrived in 2022, federal officials have sought to reassure Americans that the threat to the public remained low. The Biden administration on Wednesday [...]

The milk poses virtually no risk to consumers, experts said. But the finding suggests that the outbreak in dairy cows is wider than has been known. Federal regulators said on [...]

The News The rate of emergency room visits caused by heat illness increased significantly last year in large swaths of the country compared with the previous five years, according to [...]

In the year after a pandemic-era policy preserving Medicaid coverage lapsed, more than 20 million people were dropped from the program at some point. Lindsey McNeil and her 7-year-old daughter, [...]

As Southern states reconsider Medicaid expansion, Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas is pushing her own plan meant to appeal to conservatives. So far, success has been elusive. As lawmakers in [...]

The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces. The Biden administration announced on [...]

Appointment cancellations and financial distress have become a constant at Bethesda Pediatrics, a nonprofit medical clinic in East Texas that is heavily dependent on Medicaid, the health insurance program for [...]

The top executives of three major companies appeared before a Senate panel led by Mr. Sanders, who has made lowering drug costs a signature issue. The chief executives of three [...]

A record 21 million people signed up for marketplace plans for 2024, drawn in part by more generous federal subsidies. But the expanded subsidies are set to expire after next [...]

In newly disclosed documents, federal researchers find that cannabis may have medical uses and is less likely to cause harm than drugs like heroin. Marijuana is neither as risky nor [...]

The Biden administration said that a record number of Americans had signed up for coverage in 2024 through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces, a sign of the law's durability. More [...]

The News More than 15 million people have signed up for health insurance plans offered on the Affordable Care Act's federal marketplace, a 33 percent increase compared to the same [...]

Xavier Becerra, the health and human services secretary, suggested that states were doing far too little to make sure that children were not unfairly denied federal insurance. The Biden administration [...]

Many of the children were eligible for federal aid, experts said, but errors have been common as states ''unwind'' assistance from earlier in the coronavirus pandemic. At least two million [...]

The News Health workers feel burnout more frequently than they did before the Covid-19 pandemic, while also struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression, sleep problems and harassment, according to [...]

Philadelphia is again the focus of a national campaign to open -- or restrict -- sites where people use drugs under medical supervision. Quetcy M. Lozada, a first-term Philadelphia City [...]

Tens of millions of Americans are struggling to cope with soaring temperatures. OSHA is developing new workplace safety standards, but they are not yet complete. Anthony Soto, a 22-year-old baggage [...]

Low-income people who wrongly lost Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program coverage will keep their insurance, federal officials said. Nearly 500,000 people, many of them children, will keep Medicaid and [...]

In the United States, smoke from wildfires is undoing progress from the Clean Air Act. In poorer countries, the situation is even worse. On the heels of an exceptionally fiery [...]

A nationwide rollout of the vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna should begin later this week, after the C.D.C. considers guidelines to prepare Americans for this season when infections usually tick [...]

The overdose-reversal drug should be more widely available, health experts have said. It arrives in many stores next week, no prescription necessary. Narcan, the first opioid overdose reversal medication approved [...]

Byline: Noah Weiland and Rachel Bujalski In response to soaring overdose deaths in state prisons, California started a sprawling addiction program. But keeping people on medication during and after a [...]

A $5 billion federal program aims to make better Covid vaccines. But vaccine makers are confused by murky regulatory guidance. Efforts to develop the next generation of Covid vaccines are [...]

The News President Biden on Friday said that he planned to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen, the former North Carolina health secretary, as the next director of the Centers for Disease [...]

As states begin to drop people from their Medicaid programs, early data shows that many recipients are losing their coverage for procedural reasons. Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have [...]

The Biden administration has prioritized preserving a $5 billion vaccine development program in discussions with House Republicans on clawing back unspent Covid-19 funds. The White House is seeking to preserve [...]

Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland The coronavirus public health emergency, declared by the Trump administration in 2020, will expire on Thursday. Interviews with senior health officials suggest the [...]

The number leveled off after two years of sharp increases, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 110,000 people died last year of drug [...]