Health Policy

Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers the tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps.

About 140,000 people across the state benefit from enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. Cutting them would be more expensive for everyone in the long run.

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency.

'We are able to give the vaccine now without a prescription. We just have to have a convo with the patient and review the screening form,' said Dr. Johnathan Hamrick, an Atlanta pharmacist.

As HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues to roil the CDC, some Democratic-led states have struck out on their own.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposal to add autism to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could unleash a flood of claims, threatening the program's financial stability.

Also in the Global Health Checkup: Food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.

Although hepatitis B is often associated with behaviors like injection drug use or having multiple sexual partners, health experts note that the virus can be transmitted in ordinary situations too, including among young children.

From shifting Covid-19 vaccine recommendations and a debate over Tylenol and autism, to declining Covid levels in New York and even a case of eastern equine encephalitis, there’s a lot to sort through.

After the FDA changed its regulations around the Covid vaccine to limit access, New York state crafted a workaround to preserve people’s ability to get a booster. Nonetheless, confusion has reigned in pharmacies across NYC.

Health leaders warn that competing systems risk causing more confusion, costing lives, and sharpening partisan divisions.

The dilemma for outside public health experts is whether to try to preserve public trust in the CDC (and therefore, in the long run, its ability to recover) or to strip away its legitimacy to prevent the public from being misled.

Research has not deeply examined Tylenol risks in young children, and many rigorous studies refute a link between vaccines and autism.

The program is part of a strategy to equip young people not only to care for their own well-being, but also to support peers in crisis — and to recognize when to guide them toward professional help.

RFK Jr.'s leadership upheavals have shaken the confidence many states have in the CDC and led to the fracturing of a national, cohesive immunization policy that’s endured for 30 years.

Susan Monarez said she came into the job aligned with Kennedy’s goals of improving America’s health and was open to changing the policies and structures at the CDC. But she wasn’t ready to compromise her scientific judgment.

The CMS chief defended Medicaid work requirements, touted AI in health care, and promised a rural health overhaul in appearance at health care conference.

Paralysis is not an option for local leaders. The health of millions of Americans depends on how cities and counties prepare for and respond to the next health crisis.

The federal advisory panel may make recommendations on who should get Covid shots, as well as how hepatitis B and MMRV vaccines are administered to children. Here's what to know.

For more than 30 years, the first of three shots of hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended for infants shortly after birth. In that time, the potentially fatal disease has been virtually eradicated among American children.