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Adolescents said they were more likely to share photos with a dating partner, or when they had been worn down with repeated requests.

Two people have died in an outbreak of meningococcal disease. Many cases were traced to a nightclub in Canterbury that is popular with students at the University of Kent.

Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the childhood immunization schedule.

A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support "on a massive scale."

Most groups defended their support for medical intervention. But the Society for Plastic Surgeons broke with the consensus.

A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifts away from talking about vaccine policy.

She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.

The number doctors use to demarcate hypertension keeps going down, a trend applauded by many experts, who point to studies linking high blood pressure and dementia.

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and strokes.

The American Heart Association advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and strokes.