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A new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in our feline companions.

Many say they are relieved to finally have an explanation after decades of struggle.

The agency is asking the White House to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.

In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity.

Starting at 30, women can collect their own vaginal samples for HPV testing at a doctor's office.

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. "would put the public's health in jeopardy," more than 75 laureates wrote.

New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?

"We're putting another burden on the elderly that we don't have to," one researcher said.

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency.

Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren't addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found.