Health

The Supreme Court ruled against a massive Purdue Pharma reorganization, which included billions for victims and states but also shielded the Sackler family from future liability.

The updated Covid vaccines should become available for people ages 6 months and older in August and September.

Antibiotics don’t work at all on viruses — the most common cause of conjunctivitis.

The vote, by the Ways and Means Committee, is one of the first steps needed to reverse a more than two-decades-old ban prohibiting the government from paying for the drugs.

The decline is likely attributable to the closure of family planning clinics and confusion about which options remain legal, researchers say.

Gone are the days when a fever was a sure sign of Covid. As the virus mutates and infections rise again, Covid symptoms vary widely from person to person.

People 75 and older should be vaccinated for RSV, but those 60 to 74 should do so only if they are higher risk for severe disease.

“Every time something like this happens, it makes you feel so embarrassed ... to not have control of yourself,” Dion says in the film, "I Am: Celine Dion."

About half of U.S. adults say it's difficult to pay for their medical care.

A provision of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act requires drugmakers to pay rebates to Medicare if they hike the price of a medication faster than the rate of inflation. 

An analysis found that risk factors for heart disease, including LDL cholesterol and body weight, improved when various animal-based meats were replaced with a meat alternative.