Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vaccine policies, according to colleagues.

OpenEvidence, a fast-growing start-up, is using artificial intelligence to help doctors find answers to clinical questions for diagnosis and treatment.

After Jesse Ridgway, a popular YouTuber, and his wife, Ashley, revealed the news, death threats followed.

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long alarmed bioethicists.

Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it will allow those at risk of Ebola back into the country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated in pointed testimony to senators that he was reclaiming control of the U.S. relationship with Gavi, an international vaccine alliance.

A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it?s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.

Clinical trials in China are getting attention at an international oncology gathering in Chicago. China?s surging biotechnology industry is fueling alarm that U.S. dominance in the field is waning.

Hundreds of Kenyans have marched through the streets to oppose a quarantine facility that would be reserved exclusively for American patients.

The parasitic, flesh-eating fly has now been confirmed in cows, goats and dogs.

His five-volume ?Children of Crisis? series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

News of Crown Princess Mette-Marit?s worsening condition comes as a number of scandals have plunged the royal family into a deep crisis.

Mining has been the lifeblood of this remote Congolese hill town for decades. Now, it is fueling the spread of a devastating virus.

He mapped the herpes simplex virus genome, revealing how it invades cells. His work also helped lay the groundwork for potential vaccines and gene therapies.

A Mellon heir transferred the adjacent Connecticut properties, covering about 300 acres, at no cost to Children?s Health Defense last year.

Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These ?death jars? may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported.

His research showing the positive effects of athletics on intellectually disabled children led Eunice Kennedy Shriver to ask him to help stage the Games.

The order came after U.S. officials said that a 50-bed facility was being established in the African country to house American citizens exposed to the virus.

The babies were part of a vaccine trial for a respiratory virus in the 1960s and died shortly after. Their families said they had been unaware of the trial until recently.

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