Citing a national security statute, the administration has begun a process to investigate the impact of imported semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were at much greater risk of later dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause.

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig.

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.

The nation’s health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address the mass layoffs that have gutted oversight of tobacco and vapes, food safety and drug reviews.

Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” reached $10 billion last year. A leading seller made a large donation to President Trump’s election campaign.

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.

The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, pushed back on a growing campaign against the mineral, which has been used for decades to prevent cavities.

The nation’s health secretary announced that he planned to invite scientists to provide answers by September, but specialists consider that target date unrealistic.

President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” made of dried placenta has soared as doctors pocket lucrative discounts from sellers.

New York Times reporters are looking into cases of unnecessary and wasteful spending in government health programs.

From the “chairs” to the hallway medicine, the show’s depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings true for medical experts.

She said I could tell her anything.

In an interview with CBS, the health secretary also suggested he wasn’t familiar with massive cuts to state funding for public health.

The health secretary seemed stoic — maybe nervous, even — at the start of his first major trip. But on a hike with Navajo Nation leaders, he was finally in his element.