Texas has more than 500 hospitals across the state, and nearly 150 of them are rural. Each day, they face challenges of ...

US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday warning Americans that alcohol consumption can increase their cancer risk and called for an updated health warning label on alcoholic ...

“As I finish my tenure as Surgeon General, this is my parting prescription, my final wish for all of us: Choose community.” During his tenure, Murthy wrote, he witnessed the way hatred and ...

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy noted that consuming alcohol increases the risk for “at least seven types of cancer” including breast, colon and liver.

Here's my watch telling me to try harder.Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog that I've reflected on many times since. Titled Your Disease, Your Fault, ...

The idea that loneliness is an ‘epidemic’ is misleading and it draws us away from sustainable solutions, rather than toward ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial ...

Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives. But these are different things, and the ...

A shift in a key vaccine advisory committee has raised alarms among public health experts. The ACIP routinely makes ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. surgeon general has said the nation’s medical and food systems are corrupted by special interests.

President Donald Trump’s former surgeon general joined the chorus of critics speaking out against public health officials like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Casey Means. Years after […] ...