President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus.

Health and Human Services is a massive Cabinet agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical ...

At some point in our lives, most of us have come across the trope of the “mangy dog” in a cartoon, book, or movie. Maybe some ...

QUESTION: I used Zovirax ointment for two decades while I had employer-funded insurance. Once I went on Medicare, I learned ...

A 5-gram tube of Zovirax cream runs more than $200. A month’s supply of valacyclovir (500 milligrams) tablets costs between ...

President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who ...

Since then, the nation’s sense of a shared reality has only degraded further. Certain Trump lies stick out for their absurdity (the Sharpie-drawn addition to a hurricane map in 2019) or vilification ( ...

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Peter McCullough, a Texas cardiologist who sells “contagion emergency kits” that include ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine — drugs that have not been approved to treat COVID-19 and can have ...

When treating scabies in institutions, oral anti-scabies treatment with ivermectin is often preferred. Do not use alternative or natural remedies for scabies. They will not kill the scabies mite.