THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- U.S. Sen. Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor and spoke for 25 hours and 5 minutes this week, breaking the modern record for the longest Senate speech ever. Senate rules allow a member who is recognized by the presiding...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Health experts are warning that whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is making a dangerous comeback. Cases are rising across the country, and Louisiana recently reported that two infants have died -- the state’s...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- A group of 23 states and Washington, D.C., is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over a sudden cut of $12 billion in public health funding. The lawsuit says the rollback will disrupt vital...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- The longtime leader of a federal health program for 9/11 survivors and first responders has been fired, worrying many advocates and lawmakers. The program serves more than 100,000 people. Dr. John Howard, head of the...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Strokes caused by an artery tear are landing five times as many Americans in the hospital these days, a new study says. Cervical artery dissection involves a small tear in the inner lining of an artery in the neck that...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Death comes for everyone, be they rich or poor. But no amount of money will help Americans live longer than Europeans, a new study says. Even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans compared to well-heeled...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Thinking of splurging on a whole-body MRI or CT scan, based on the latest health fad? Just keep in mind that you’ll be contributing to climate change, a new study says. Unnecessary imaging scans for Medicare...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Life is busy, and some folks simply don’t have time until the weekend to work out. Turns out, that’s just fine for their health, a new study suggests. “Weekend warriors” who cram their...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- Can’t get your teenage girl off her smartphone, iPad or laptop? This could cost her much-needed sleep and increase her risk of depression, a new Swedish study says. Teenagers who spend more time on screens tend to...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 -- An experimental blood test might be able to help doctors predict whether someone will recover their mobility following a spinal cord injury. The test looks for fragments of spinal cord DNA floating freely in a...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Qfitlia (fitusiran) for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in adult and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older with...

TUESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- The shingles vaccine can do more than protect seniors from painful, blistering rashes. It also appears to protect older folks from dementia, researchers say. Seniors who got the shingles vaccine when it became available...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top tobacco regulator, Brian King, has been placed on leave as part of a large wave of cuts across federal health agencies. King, who led the FDA's tobacco control...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- The telehealth company Hims & Hers Health is expanding its weight-loss offerings by adding new medications to its platform. The company said Tuesday it now provides access to Zepbound, a brand-name version of the...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them. But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Lower levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. People with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels lower than 70 mg/dl had...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. The eyes also might help detect seniors at risk for a common syndrome in which they emerge from surgery in a state of delirium, new research suggests. Seniors who have...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- Black Americans have been dying from drug overdoses (OD) at higher rates than white Americans, a new study says. Both Black men and women are at greater risk of a fatal OD compared to white people, researchers reported...

WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 -- The inability to pay for health care has reached a new high in the United States, a new study says. More than one-third of Americans — an estimated 91 million people — say they couldn't afford to access...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing authorization for the first home-based, nonprescription diagnostic test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in women, the agency announced Friday. Women with...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- Hundreds of U.S. research projects aimed at boosting vaccine confidence have been shut down -- just as preventable diseases like measles and flu are on the rise. Since Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- For nearly two decades, a stroke had left a woman unable to speak -- until now. Thanks to a new brain implant, her thoughts are being turned into real-time speech, giving her a voice again for the first time in 18...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- A major round of job cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) could weaken efforts to protect American workers, according to federal health officials. About two-thirds of NIOSH staff --...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- The number of Americans taking cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound has skyrocketed in recent years, a new study says. The number of people without diabetes taking a GLP-1 drug more than tripled...

TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 -- Personalized support can help more people at risk of colon cancer attend a potentially life-saving colonoscopy appointment, a new study says. About 55% of people assigned a patient navigator got a follow-up colonoscopy...