Nearly 10% of adults smoked cigarettes in 2024, the report found.

Here's what to know about peptides, what they can and can't do, and what's driving viral claims about possible health benefits online.

Keeping a tiny brain area called locus coeruleus functioning properly may stave off symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and keep the aging brain healthy

The weather anchor said he felt healthy before he talked to his doctor.

Dietitian Abbey Sharp was named by the "Biggest Loser" trainer during a debate with body positivity advocates on the platform Jubilee. Now, Sharp weighs in on the obesity discourse.

A large, new study found that the stimulant methylphenidate, such as the drugs Ritalin and Concerta, may lower the risk of psychosis when prescribed to younger children with ADHD.

A COVID mutation that previously went under the radar, BA.3.2, has been detected in 25 states, said the CDC. Nicknamed "cicada" it's been found in 23 countries.

Whole milk will return to school cafeterias under a newly signed law.

State health officials confirmed a second pediatric death associated with the flu this season. Here's what to know.

Wastewater testing can alert public health officials to measles infections days to months before cases are confirmed by doctors, researchers said in two studies published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Colorado health officials were able to get ahead of the highly contagious virus by tracking its presence in sewer systems, researchers wrote. The findings add to evidence that wastewater testing is a valuable weapon in tracking disease, including COVID-19, polio, mpo

Last year, measles cases in the U.S. reached a 33-year high.

A majority of counties across the U.S. are seeing a steady rise in vaccine exemptions for religious or personal beliefs among children entering kindergarten, a new study shows

Whole milk is heading back to school lunch cafeterias.

Spring & Mulberry recalled one lot of Mint Leaf Date Sweetened Chocolate Bars.

Whole milk is heading back to school cafeterias across the country after President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday overturning Obama-era limits on higher-fat milk options. Nondairy drinks such as fortified soy milk may also be on the menu in the coming months following adoption of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which cleared Congress in the fall. The action allows schools participating in the National School Lunch Program to serve whole and 2% fat milk along with the skim and low-fa

Department of Justice said five Kaiser Permanente affiliates in California and Colorado agreed to ​pay $556 million to resolve claims they illegally pressured doctors to add codes ‌for diagnoses they never considered to patients' medical records, in order to inflate Medicare payments ‌from the government. Wednesday's settlement resolves two whistleblower lawsuits accusing the affiliates of Oakland, California-based Kaiser of violating the federal False Claims Act.

An annual health report from UnitedHealth report found Georgia ranked 38th nationally, in part from recreational drug use and high costs.

Health officials in South Carolina confirmed 124 new measles cases since Friday, as the outbreak in the northwestern part of the state balloons following the holidays. There is a second, separate measles outbreak along the Arizona-Utah border, where 418 people have been infected since August. Last year was the nation’s worst year for measles spread since 1991, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The stimulants Ritalin and Adderall have been used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, but research shows they don’t act on the brain’s attention circuitry as had long been assumed. Instead, the medications primarily target the brain’s reward and wakefulness centers, according to a new study published in the journal Cell. The research, which used brain imaging data from almost 5,800 children ages 8 to 11, also pointed toward the important role that lack of sleep

This year's flu season is shaping up to be particularly brutal. Here's what to know this week, including cases taking a downturn.

The CDC is no longer recommending that all adolescents and teens get vaccinated for potentially fatal bacterial meningitis, although the shots are still available for high-risk patients.

The media superstar, who has struggled with weight for much of her life, and a Yale School of Medicine doctor team up for a book that examines the biology of obesity, offering a new way forward.

"Your goal might be set in stone, but how you achieve it shouldn't be."

Andy Provencher spent a year searching for the cause of his exhausting symptoms before a physician's assistant suggested a rare illness.

When Sarah Baldassaro turned 50, she took stock of her health and began working with a fitness coach on strength training, a type of exercise that's crucial for women in midlife. “Now I would say I’m stronger overall than I ever have been at any age,” said Baldassaro, 52, of Alexandria, Virginia. Medical experts say strength training keeps bones and muscles healthy after menopause when estrogen loss speeds up a reduction in bone density and contributes to the gradual loss of muscle mass.

Dr. Molly O’Shea has noticed growing skepticism about vaccines at both of her Michigan pediatric offices and says this week's unprecedented and confusing changes to federal vaccine guidance will only make things worse. The biggest change was to stop blanket recommendations for protection against six diseases and recommend those vaccines only for at-risk children or through something called “shared clinical decision-making” with a health care provider. The phrase, experts say, is confusing and

From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.

Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have had a meteoric rise in recent years, but how fast does the weight return after stopping treatment?

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the flu shot isn't effective in protecting children. Here's what experts say.

Irregularities in how the government developed the updated guidelines raise questions about its conclusions.