The New York Times

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.

A hospital in Manitoba had to postpone a “limited number of elective surgeries” after ants appeared there for the third time since 2024.

Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid’s early days.

A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.

A Dutch flight attendant was among the latest to be tested in connection with a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. One infected passenger had briefly boarded a plane to the Netherlands before she died.

The health agency has been particularly strict in abolishing at-home work, overriding accommodations that were granted years before the pandemic.

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction.

Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.

The agency’s scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient records for studies that were pulled back before release.

The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medications. New policies he is introducing aim to change that.

A federal appeals court temporarily halted a Food and Drug Administration regulation that has greatly expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone.

The drugs are 10 times more dangerous than fentanyl. They are showing up in street drugs in the South and the Midwest, and will most likely spread to other regions.