This week’s mass layoffs by his secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, of more than 1,300 Department of Education employees delivered a crippling blow to the agency’s ability to tell the public how ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

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HIV self-testing remains underutilized among not only the general public, but especially people who use drugs.

Proteomics International aptly has chosen World Kidney Day to launch its predictive test for diabetic kidney disease locally.

Stanford University health policy professor and economist Jay Bhattacharya is poised to become the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after testifying before a key US Senate ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health answered sharp questions in a confirmation hearing Wednesday about his views on vaccines, research funding and the role ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor of health policy, appears before the Senate HELP committee, which will vet his ...

However, a person should always take their medication according to their doctor’s instructions. Medication may be a good option for people whose blood pressure does not respond to other ...

The NIH was directed by the administration not to take a key step in the approval process ... which he had hoped to get funding to test. Understanding that process could lead to drugs that ...

A random glucose test measures the amount of glucose or sugar ... People with type 1 diabetes need to take insulin daily and regularly monitor their blood glucose levels for life.