Federal officials will invest $282 million in funding to ensure a smooth transition to the three-digit suicide hotline 988, with $177 million going toward expanding operations and telephone infrastructure and the other $109 million will increase staff at call centers. Since 2005, the line has received over 20 million calls, 2.4 million last year alone.

Lack of access and infrastructure, stigma and isolation intensify a mental health crisis in agricultural communities.

Omicron is now the most common variant among new Covid cases in the U.S., accounting for nearly three-quarters of new infections.

Research shows an increased potential for spread through aerosols.

Pfizer and BioNTech are testing a third dose of a Covid vaccine for young children. The third dose is a lower amount than the adult doses.

Omicron will likely become the dominant strain across the majority of the US by Christmas but Prizer's new Covid pill offers a glimmer of hope in staving off severe illness.

The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents.

As of the Dec. 15 deadline, 97.9% of active duty soldiers in the US Army have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine, slightly trailing 98% of the Navy but slightly higher than the Air Force (97.5%) and the Marine Corps (95%). The Air Force discharged 27 airmen who had refused to get the shot and the Navy has fired one sailor for refusing to be tested while he was pursuing an exemption.

The US is averaging nearly 120,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, which is a 40% increase from last month, and deaths have increased 12% over November.

Women undergoing common elective or emergency surgeries had a 15% higher chance of dying or experiencing a major complication within 30 days than when male surgeon performed the surgery compared to when a female surgeon did.

The agency’s advisers cited concerns about the increased incidence of a rare but potentially serious blood clotting condition among those who received the company’s shot.

The typical patient is already a mother; is poor; is unmarried and in her late 20s; and has some college education.

Science can find a cure for our diseases, but not for our societal ills.

How could that change our understanding about, for starters, chronic disease, aging and obesity?

The long read: Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the ‘default’ human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed?

Labels like "nonessential" are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.

In Tennessee, where the governor allows families to ignore school mask mandates, some parents are making excruciating calculations each morning about whether to send their children to school.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

Driving kills as many Americans each year as guns do. Experts say that’s preventable.

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.

This report examines attitudes and views of parents as children head back to school amidst the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant. Nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, who ar…