Scientists compete vigorously for a slice of the more than $30 billion that the agency doles out annually; they can spend years assembling grant applications that stretch thousands of pages in hopes ...

THE Department of Health (DOH) launched a series of health and safety initiatives aimed at promoting responsible road use and ...

An air quality alert was reported by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 10:18 a.m. in effect until Sunday at ...

Alaska has been issued its first ever heat advisory by the National Weather Service (NWS) as an unusual surge of high temperatures grips parts of the state. This weekend, parts of The Lost Frontier ...

Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump's budget plan would rapidly push more ...

As the potential loss of $11 billion of federal health funding looms, memory cafe organizers believe their work may become even more important.

The Trump administration's plan to cut funding for HIV vaccine research comes at a time when the field is making substantial ...

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The National Guard is typically brought into American cities during emergencies such as natural disasters and civil disturbances or to provide support during public health crises — when local ...

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President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid ...

Among the eight people who Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician who ...