BioNTech said Thursday it would buy CureVac, its onetime competitor in the Covid-19 vaccine race, for about $1.25 billion in ...

A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.

Despite his compelling personal story of recovery from addiction, RFK Jr. has said much less about the U.S. drug crisis than ...

A company like 23andMe can answer a lot of questions for an adoptee. But those answers come with a high cost to privacy.

Though behavioral health conditions do not discriminate between Democrats and Republicans, the Medicaid cuts may be ...

For more than a half-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relied on outside experts to guide the ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday the eight new members that will sit on the panel of experts that ...

Europe’s comparatively cautious approach to food additives is the envy of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make ...

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STAT viewed a draft of legislation to link U.S. drug prices to those in other countries that two people familiar with the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and ...