Health

Pharmaceutical companies are paying TikTok influencers to market prescription drugs to young people, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which calls for increased transparency and regulation in the use of patient influencers for pharmaceutical marketing, particularly when it comes to targeting young people.

Three people have died and four people have had eyeballs removed after using eyedrops linked to a drug-resistant bacterial disease.

Finke is an "activist for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights, as well as Black Lives Matter."

Senator Rand Paul and Representative Chip Roy have introduced a bill to eliminate Dr. Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and replace it with three separate national research institutes.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed a ban on classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in grades 4 through 12.

A teenager who has detransitioned from being a male filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente Medical Group after health care providers performed gender surgery at 13 years old.

U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.

Congressional Republicans are busy trying to uncover the origin of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1.1 million Americans.

"People aren't really opposed, but they do need a push, a push and a drag," joked DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Billionaire Bill Gates has urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a Global Health Emergency Corps to tackle transnational health threats, in order to prevent another pandemic like COVID-19.