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Most of the federal contracts with companies involved in the crash program to make COVID-19 vaccines haven't been made public. The lack of disclosure raises questions about accountability.

States are preparing guidelines for when there's not enough care to go around. Disability groups are worried that those standards will allow rationing that excludes people with disabilities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging Americans to prepare for the possibility of more aggressive measures to stop the new coronavirus in the United States.

Florida has been awarded $61.7 million to help fight opioid addiction, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday.

The Trump adminstration's goal is to establish a firewall between taxpayers and health care providers who might give women abortion information. Critics call the proposed changes a "gag rule."

At the same time, HHS Secretary Alex Azar criticized the deadlines as "artificial" and said that they prevent the government "from completing our standard or even a truncated vetting process."

The Trump administration will resurrect a Reagan-era rule that would ban federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, or...

Skeptical Democratic senators are getting a chance to question President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary about what he'll do about rising drug...

A public health emergency was declared for Florida on Thursday ahead of Hurricane Irma.

The federal government is giving the state $3 million for drug court programs in the wake of an opioid epidemic.

Health data breaches have affected more than 3.7 million people so far this year and Florida has the most victims with 2.73 million, The News-Press in...

Patients looking for more transparency in health care costs won’t usually find it on the bill from their medical provider.