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Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding.

Since President Trump announced plans for mass deportations and rescinded protections for hospitals and clinics, health care facilities have seen a jump in no-shows.

Does it alter your DNA? Is the technology safe? And other questions, answered.

Dr. Means, President Trump's new pick for surgeon general, has focused on the prevalence of chronic diseases and called on the government to scale back on childhood vaccines.

A lawsuit led by Washington, Colorado and California accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funds for new charging stations.

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. "To me, that sounds like friendship," one scientist said.

The research team studying how to improve I.V.F. was a casualty of cutbacks at federal health agencies.

Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans.

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don't yet know where it may come down.