Medicaid funding has continued to flow to dozens of senior care-home operators in four states cited for stealing workers’ wages or breaking other labor laws, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. Earlier this fall, Medicaid funding went to at least 45 care homes previously cited for labor violations in Ca...

In a first of its kind study, researchers at UCSF say people who use e-cigarettes are at a significantly greater risk of chronic lung disease.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the White House and 3M reached a “very amicable agreement” that will bring more than 55 million masks to the U.S. each month, following a public dispute between the manufacturing giant and the president.

In the days that followed President Donald Trump’s first mention of hydroxychloroquine, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients received notices from their healthcare providers and pharmacies that they will no longer get that medication.

World Health Organization officials said the coronavirus can spread in asymptomatic patients, about one to three days before symptoms start. “It’s very important to note that even if you are pre-symptomatic, you still have to transmit through droplets. You still have to have these infectious particles that come out of your nose and mouth,” Dr. Mari...

Roughly 40 million African Americans are deciding minute by minute whether to put their faith in the government and in the medical field during the coronavirus pandemic

Wearing gloves to the grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic? It’s good to take precautions like that, a Michigan nurse says in a video that’s been shared around the world – but you need to remember the dangers of cross-contamination.

Mark Levine, a science teacher by training, is the chairman of the New York City Council’s health committee. He also, as it happens, had COVID-19. So, knowing intimately how stressed the city’s hospital system is, and what the symptoms of the disease are like, Levine took to Twitter to answer some common questions about what the novel c...

At least five children ate candy containing high THC doses after the Utah Food Bank distributed it as part of their food donations, police said.

Some states and cities that have been shipped masks, gloves, ventilators and other essential equipment from the nation’s medical stockpile to fight the coronavirus have gotten an unwelcome surprise: the material is unusable.

All of a sudden, the one thing that we all need — and we didn’t know to stock up on — is fabric face masks. Here’s how to get or make one for yourself.

The guidelines issued by federal and state agencies to stop the spread of coronavirus have included whether to wear a mask in public, how to maintain social distancing and what sheltering in place entails. But what do you do if you need to visit a doctor or take your child to the pediatrician for something unrelated to coronavirus?

World Health Organization officials cautioned Friday that more young people are becoming critically ill and dying from the coronavirus that’s now spread to almost every country across the world....“We are seeing more and more younger individuals who are experiencing severe disease,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zo...