From a Tuskegee Study apology to vaccine distrust, Benita Harris spent her career at the CDC battling racial disparity in ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1793, French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris, ending more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. In 1861, Mississippi Sen. Jefferson ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed the nation's health systems away from science and toward conspiracy-fueled quackery ...

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Public health recommendations suggest individuals can resume normal activities 5 days after symptom cessation. However, our study finds that full recovery can take longer, indicating that delayed ...

Trust in government health agencies has plummeted, according to health policy and research group KFF, with declines across the political spectrum. And experts told CNN that they fear things could get ...

“From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama, there’s a bridge called Jesse Jackson,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who led the Civil Rights Movement for ...

A contingent of vaccine skeptics in the New Hampshire House of Representatives has again brought a slate of vaccine-related ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...

Study finds that law enforcement officers die earlier than the general population from heart disease, cancer and other ...

Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS. You can reach Chelsea on Signal at chelseacirruzzo.42. Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious ...