Since its surrender to Allied forces in 1945, Japan has undergone monumental change. Here are the key shifts of the past 80 ...

The American Medical Association expresses "deep concern" over a report that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy plans to remove members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Right-wing populists, viral social media posts, and deep-seated economic anxieties have amplified the belief that foreigners ...

Japanese boxing officials vote to implement stricter rules on weight loss and will also introduce urine tests following the ...

Life expectancy is stalling – and the UK is officially the sick man of Europe. At a time when longevity medicine is gaining ...

The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health. The move would ...

FAIRMONT — Public health officials will airdrop oral rabies vaccine bait around Morgantown after an individual was bitten by a rabid raccoon on Thursday in Monongalia County.

While generators can be helpful for power outages, one expert has urged homeowners to take precautions to improve safety.

In 2010, the American Heart Association introduced Life's Simple 7, a construct to measure, monitor, and modify cardiovascular health (CVH) across the lifespan. We aimed to summarize the knowledge on ...

Suzanne Pfister, who for more than a decade led a Phoenix-based nonprofit focused on improving Arizonans' health, died July 18. She was 67.

In the coming year, health department agencies already strapped for cash fear they’ll find it much more difficult to do their jobs.

State by state, public health departments take a similar approach: They monitor, treat and try to stem preventable diseases, alongside their host of other duties. But in the coming year, health ...