New recommendations for early treatment of hypertension to prevent strokes, heart attacks and dementia come as an experimental medication is shown to lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients.

The Boston Globe's Jason Laughlin explains how Massachusetts and other states are forming independent healthcare coalitions to fill in the gap on healthcare policy left by sweeping federal changes.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questioning during this week's Senate hearing as frustration, confusion, and anger grew among lawmakers and citizens regarding his controversial vaccine policies

In Zambia, we met people who are HIV positive, couldn't get drugs to suppress the virus after U.S. aid cuts and were seeing symptoms. We checked in on them — and the man who's been their champion.

A report that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has promised will come out this month will look at the causes of autism. Many worry it will have claims unsupported by science.

As federal health agencies change their approach to vaccine policy leaving access for COVID shots uncertain, some states are taking things into their own hands.

New recommendations for early treatment for millions of people with hypertension come at a time when a new experimental medication is shown to lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Florida-based pediatrician Mona Amin about Governor Ron DeSantis' push to eliminate vaccine mandates in his state, and what that could mean for Floridians' health.

States are planning for how they'll run leaner Medicaid operations after federal budget cuts. But some states are running into another problem -- they can't legally use their budgets to fill the gap.

Massachusetts is the first state in the nation to require insurance carriers to cover vaccines that the state's public health department recommends, rather than the CDC.