Health

Persistent concerns about the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in more than 20 years are curbing access more than four months after regulators approved it.

The Teal Pumpkin Project is a national effort to make Halloween safer for kids with food allergies and other medical conditions. The project was first launched in 2012 by a local food allergy group in Tennessee before FARE expanded it to all 50 states. Many of the popular Halloween candies contain nuts, milk, egg, soy or wheat, which are among&#823...

Daley, 27, said he has struggled in his relationships with food and body image.

The nation’s most restrictive abortion law is driving many women from Texas to seek services as far away as Oklahoma and Kansas

A highly anticipated study on “mixing and matching” COVID-19 vaccines found the approach to be safe and effective, though the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were found to spark a stronger immune system response than Johnson & Johnson.

Food companies are coming under renewed pressure to use less salt in packaged and restaurant foods.

For the first time, U.S. heath officials have authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R

While there’s no evidence any of the COVID vaccines cause problems with fertility, becoming severely ill from the disease has the potential to do so.

Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released Tuesday.

Patient advocates and some state governments say hospitals must do more to help patients deal with medical bills before the debt winds up in collections.

California public schools and colleges must stock their restrooms with free menstrual products under a new law. The measure signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom builds on a 2017 law requiring low-income schools in disadvantaged areas to provide students with free menstrual products. It expands the law to include grades 6 to 12, community colleges and...

The number of people receiving booster shots is outpacing those getting their first or second doses of the initial vaccination.

At issue is whether transplant patients who refuse the shots are not only putting themselves at greater risk for serious illness and death from a COVID infection, but also squandering scarce organs that could benefit others.