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Babies who ate the equivalent of about 4 heaping teaspoons of peanut butter weekly were about 80 percent less likely to develop a peanut allergy by their fifth birthday. So finds a landmark new study.

President Obama recently asked Congress for $215 million for an initiative to collect genetic information and combine it with health data with the goal of…

Scientists interviewed more than 1,000 men, women and children who were forced into sex work and hard labor. The result is the largest study to detail the health of human trafficking survivors.

Kaiser Health News columnist Michelle Andrews answers questions from the public about the changing landscape of health insurance. Some readers want to…

In King v. Burwell, Obamacare's opponents are challenging the ACA again, this time contending that a section of the law doesn't authorize subsidies to make mandated insurance affordable in 34 states.

If the Supreme Court strikes down subsidies, millions of people could no longer afford health insurance. And premiums for others would rise dramatically, as healthier people leave the marketplace.

WHO says there's strong evidence that excessive sugar is bad for us. So it's recommending that we cut back significantly.

More than half of children in foster care aren’t getting their required health screens on time according to a report released last week by the Health...

We have different clocks in virtually every organ of our bodies. But living against the clock — eating late at night or working overnight — may set the stage for weight gain and chronic disease.

Last week a friend of mine messaged me, asking how I was. I had just had some tests and another treatment for my third recurrence of cancer and he wanted…