Neighborhoods influence children’s health, so it is important to have measures of children’s neighborhood environments. Using the Child Opportunity Index 2.0, a composite metric of the neighborhood ...

Globally, more than 1 billion people currently live with obesity. The World Health Organization on Monday released new guidance on GLP-1 medications for adults with obesity, recommending their ...

The World Health Organization issued new guidelines Monday recommending the use of GLP-1 drugs for treating obesity. In the new guidelines, the United Nations health agency made two key ...

Around 1.6 million Americans were removed from the federal health program Medicaid during the first six months of President Donald Trump's second term, according to data collected by the health news ...

Public health after the COVID-19 pandemic must transform into a more effective force for improving health, especially in those marginalized communities that are at highest risk. Lessons from the ...

If you’re having a baby between 2025 and 2028, your bundle of joy could come home with a $1,000 head start from the government. That’s the whole idea behind the new “Trump Accounts,” introduced as ...

The World Health Organization on Monday recommended GLP-1 drugs as a tool to manage obesity in adults, marking a shift in the way the U.N. agency has historically framed obesity treatment. The WHO ...

The World Health Organization on Monday issued its first guideline on the use of GLP-1 therapies for obesity, conditionally recommending them as part of long-term treatment for the condition, which ...

One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half — from nearly 10 ...

The Powerball jackpot rose to $740 million for the Monday, Dec. 1, drawing after no one on Saturday, Nov. 29, took home the top prize. If a ticket matches all five numbers plus the Powerball in the 11 ...

More than 46 million taxpayers claim the child tax credit each year, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. The credit got a bump from the One Big Beautiful Bill, rising to $2,200 per eligible ...

Kelsey Grammer reflected on what he wishes he had understood as a young dad in the 1980s after becoming a father again at 70. The "Frasier" star, who was 28 when he welcomed his first child, daughter ...