HEALTH

A combined 4.5 million deaths occurred among mothers and infants worldwide in 2020, the agency reports.

These Black doulas focus on a community that faces higher maternal mortality rates yet has long struggled to find advocates to address their birthing needs.

The devotee of rugged back country skiing would spend the next 16 months trying to discover why he had grown so weak.

The Food and Drug Administration finalized guidelines for blood donations that do away with some long-standing disqualifications for gay and bisexual men.

Kenyatta Coleman learned that her fetus had a vein of Galen malformation. Boston doctors saved its life with the first successful fetal brain surgery.

The World Health Organization declared the mpox global health emergency over, but health officials say gay and bisexual Americans should still be on alert.

Readers responded to the surgeon general's health advisory on loneliness by sharing poignant stories of trying to nurture connection in a fractured America.

Wexton is on a mission to raise awareness about the progressive neurological movement disorder after her own diagnosis.

Cronobacter sakazakii, which sickened babies and led to a national formula shortage, would be tracked by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention.

The "peanut patch" outperformed a placebo in reducing sensitivity to peanut protein, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The vote by the agency’s outside experts increased the likelihood that a contraceptive called Opill will be approved for sale without a prescription.

The first pangenome is based on the full genetic blueprints of 47 people from around the world.

Doctors will be allowed to keep using telemedicine to prescribe certain drugs for anxiety, pain and opioid addiction, extending for six months pandemic-related flexibilities.

Here’s how major health policies will be affected when the covid public health emergency ends on on May 11.

The end of the covid public health emergency highlights long-standing vulnerabilities of a technologically weak and fractured public health surveillance system.

Alexander Witkowski, an Oregon dermatologist, found a 0.65 millimeter mole – the world's smallest skin cancer spot – under Christy Staats’s eye.

The supervised injection sites allow people to take illegal drugs like fentanyl under watch of staff trained to reverse overdoses.

A federally funded study will look at whether people using drugs in programs in New York City and Rhode Island are less likely to overdose.