Health News Editor

Kevin Hall, a top nutrition scientist who recently left the National Institutes of Health, revealed that he probably won't be making a comeback to the agency, even after NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya personally reached...

The Food and Drug Administration gave the green light on Friday for the first blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, providing a faster way for patients to identify the neurological condition and start treatment....

Federal health officials, led by RFK Jr., have decided to subject Covid shots to greater scrutiny. The Food and Drug Administration has finally given Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine the green light, but with some restrictions...

Alright, so earlier this week, Lisa Blunt Rochester threw a curveball at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his testimony to the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee by asking, “Who is the acting...

So, there's this guy named Bob Herman who spends his days digging into health insurance, government programs, hospitals, doctors, and all that jazz. He's got this newsletter called Health Care Inc., and you can...

For the first time, scientists said they reached into the genome of a really sick kid and changed the unique misspelling in his DNA. It was a big deal, like seriously huge, and it...

Alright, so we got this dude, the Republican leader of the Senate’s health panel, planning to grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about all the changes happening in the federal health agencies he's in charge...

Hey there, folks! So, if you're like me, you were probably scratching your head trying to figure out what President Trump's deal is with his new drug pricing plan. I mean, seriously, what's the...

President Trump is like totally gonna try to push this “most-favored nation” policy next week to like bring down drug prices in the U.S. It’s gonna shake things up for sure, especially for the...

So, like, I was recently hanging out at the vet’s office, totally eavesdropping on these two older ladies chatting it up. And guess what? They were going on and on about this measles outbreak...

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox.Good morning, folks! Biotech had a bit of a rough day yesterday...

Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo is calling it quits this summer. Dr. Karen, as she likes to be called, joined Google back in 2019 and really took the reins of the company's health...