Her decades of work on Huntington’s disease helped lead to the creation of a genetic test for the devastating condition. Why didn’t she take it herself?

This popular term is often misused, experts say, which may cause more harm than good.

Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement.

Two reports by U.S. investigators reveal how Medicare Advantage is quick to reject requests for short-term nursing home or inpatient rehab services.

Hundreds of Kenyans have marched through the streets to oppose a quarantine facility that would be reserved exclusively for American patients.

The parasitic, flesh-eating fly has now been confirmed in cows, goats and dogs.

OpenEvidence, a fast-growing start-up, is using artificial intelligence to help doctors find answers to clinical questions for diagnosis and treatment.

His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vaccine policies, according to colleagues.

After Jesse Ridgway, a popular YouTuber, and his wife, Ashley, revealed the news, death threats followed.

News of Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s worsening condition comes as a number of scandals have plunged the royal family into a deep crisis.

Mining has been the lifeblood of this remote Congolese hill town for decades. Now, it is fueling the spread of a devastating outbreak.

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possibl to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists.

He mapped the herpes simplex virus genome, revealing how it invades cells. His work also helped lay the groundwork for potential vaccines and gene therapies.

Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it will allow those at risk of Ebola back into the country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated in pointed testimony to senators that he was reclaiming control of the U.S. relationship with Gavi, an international vaccine alliance.

A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.

A Mellon heir transferred the adjacent Connecticut properties, covering about 300 acres, at no cost to Children’s Health Defense last year.

By tightening an exception for people with serious illnesses, more of them may lose coverage.

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.

Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These “death jars” may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported.