Augusta University professor's research will focus on providing free or low-cost after-school care for children with cardiovascular risk factors.

In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of ...

Beef tallow is a soft, whitish solid resembling vegetable shortening or butter that is made by removing, simmering and ...

Medical schools are encouraging students to downplay the harmful effects of obesity amid an epidemic of obesity-related disease.

Opinions regarding “safe” and unsafe foods vacillate more than hem-length fashion. While we disregard emerging data, fail to ...

The FDA will phase out petroleum-based food dyes in the coming months, FDA and HHS officials said Tuesday.

There are no blood or biologic tests for autism; it is diagnosed by making judgments about a child's behavior. Research has ...

Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted a written conversation with the Opinion columnist ...

For years, Kennedy has railed against Big Food and Big Pharma and blamed the nation’s “chronic disease epidemic” on additives ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would phase out all ...