Layoffs and funding freezes have gutted the CDC’s response to the opioid crisis—just as harm reduction was beginning to work ...

O n May 14, 2025, the Division of Overdose Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the ...

The rewriting of government recommendations will make the effort to get vaccine doses into arms exponentially more difficult, ...

Mental health challenges are becoming a growing public health concern among older adults, according to a federal behavioral health agency.

California is moving forward to pass the first state law to define potentially harmful ultraprocessed foods and prohibit them ...

A local substance abuse prevention advocate is warning that proposed federal budget cuts could dismantle key programs.

Former HHS staff say their RIF notices had lower performance ratings than what they actually received, or incorrectly listed ...

Martin Manzo Negrete was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in Oregon's largest methamphetamine bust and will have ...

The U.S. spends less than 1% of its budget on foreign assistance. Tim Rieser, a senior foreign policy aide in the Senate who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her ...

The current administration has pulled millions in HIV-related grants and cut staffing positions essential to research and ...

As federal health officials vow to overhaul the U.S. food supply, they’re taking a new look at infant formula. Health ...