Health

Patients and workers in one of the country’s largest hospitals sweltered in a heat wave last month. Experts say the whole country must urgently adapt.

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

Scientists are developing imaging techniques and blood tests that one day may enable doctors to identify the disease definitively in living patients.

The agency led by Dr. Mehmet Oz is proposing an end to weekly tracking of respiratory infections at the facilities where thousands of elderly residents died in the pandemic.

For 10 years Jennifer Koh struggled to understand and treat a rare neurological disorder, while trying to maintain a full calendar onstage.

Dr. Heidi Overton was pressed on the president’s false statements about the measles vaccine and his intervention in tobacco policy.

A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.

“Patient zero” has long been associated with virus outbreaks and fictional health investigations. It was coined in the 1980s, by accident.

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.