Good morning! I’m Lena H. Sun, a health reporter focusing on public health, infectious diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today I’m writing about my reporting with Washington ...

Mexican drug cartels are driving an opioid epidemic, flooding the United States with increasingly potent synthetic drugs.

Kennedy is set to meet with lawmakers across four consecutive days in addition to a meeting with the panel’s Republican staff ...

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Significantly fewer kids are getting flu shots in Pennsylvania so far this season, per new CDC data. The big picture: Childhood flu vaccination is down in every state but Iowa.

A list of supplements has been recalled after a poisonous plant called yellow oleander was discovered in some samples.

Drug warriors, in short, should not get credit for reducing overdoses. But they do deserve a large share of the blame for ...

Efforts to revoke Food and Drug Administration approval of the polio vaccine could provide a preview of how vaccine skeptics ...

You can get E. coli from eating contaminated foods, like undercooked meat, or fruits and vegetables that aren’t washed well.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived on Capitol Hill Monday to meet with senators and their staff in his bid to become the nation’s ...

The latest data from a new CDC report show a 700% plus increase in overdose deaths involving the fentanyl analog carfentanil ...

McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $650 million to resolve charges over advice it provided Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” sales of its addictive painkiller OxyContin, the U.S. Department of ...

The president-elect's choices to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as agencies such as the National ...