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Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services (HHS) candidate, attends his Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on February 24, 2021.Michael Reynolds | Swimming pool | ReutersThe Department of Health and Human…

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (center) and her lawyer are leaving the court on June 15, 2021. Holmes is due to stand trial later this year on wire fraud and other charges.CNBCThe federal judge in the fraud case of former Theranos CEO…

A nurse will give a syringe to the FEMA-sponsored COVID-19 vaccination site at Valencia State College on the first day the site resumes offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.Paul Hennessy | LightRakete | Getty ImagesCVS Health has…

Phil Murphy, New Jersey's governor, speaks at a news conference after touring the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center Covid-19 vaccination site in Edison, New Jersey, Jan. 15, 2021.Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew…

A group of nearly 60 major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, called for mandatory vaccination of health workers on Monday. With the highly contagious Delta variant…

Medical staff from the Delta Health Center will be waiting on Jan.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesMississippi state health officials issued new guidelines Friday urging state residents over 65 and immunocompromised residents, vaccinated or…

Alaskan Indians and Native Americans are entitled to government-funded health care under contracts negotiated between tribal states and the US government. "Our contracts state that we have a right to health care from the federal…

She is often shocked by the interactions she has with Covid patients, many of them African American. She remembered a recent exchange with a woman in her forties who was having difficulty breathing. When Dr. Chopra asked if she was…

Parents and unpaid caregivers of adults in the United States reported far higher rates of mental health problems than people who did not have these roles during the coronavirus pandemic, federal researchers reported Thursday.About 70…

Now scientists at the National Cancer Institute kept records for 21,750 of the volunteers and began grouping them by training session, noting changes over the decades. Did these men and women start exercising more or less often as young…