A bill recently passed by the West Virginia legislature would undo the state’s mandate for newborns to receive prophylaxis ...

The news comes just as two national laboratories that did testing for rare forms of hepatitis and drug-resistant sexually transmitted diseases were forced to close following government cuts.

A newly approved antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections, gepotidacin, also may help fight drug-resistant gonorrhea, a ...

Gepotidacine is not the only new oral antibiotic for gonorrhoea that researchers are exploring. Another, called zoliflodacin, ...

The mass layoffs of federal workers under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have impaired data-gathering on critical ...

Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein discusses her latest reporting on how Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of ...

At 30 weeks, she knew something was wrong. “One day, she said she felt the baby was hardly moving, and she reached out to the doctors. They asked her to come to the hospital. She went to the hospital.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has halted efforts to collect data on ...

The world's first baby conceived through robot-controlled fertilization has been born, researchers say. The boy was born to a ...

Gonorrhea is particularly concerning in pregnant women as it can cause miscarriage, premature birth or blindness in the newborn baby.” ...