A new city report finds a growing life‑expectancy gap for Black Bostonians; officials announced multi‑million investments and summits aimed at closing it.

State health data show pertussis cases rose in 2024 and 2025, with children making up most infections and public-health officials urging updated vaccines and boosters.

Novartis is bringing an Inclusive Health Accelerator to Baltimore to expand free breast and prostate cancer screenings, education and patient navigation in under-served neighborhoods.

From pill production in the Triangle to a brief Medicaid U‑turn, North Carolina is now the center of debates over access, cost and safety for GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs.

HMSA is ending monthly value‑based payments and returning to fee‑for‑service on July 1, and doctors warn the roughly 60‑day timeline could force clinics to close. Providers from neighbor‑island practices to Oʻahu offices say the abrupt shift risks consolidations and legal fights.

MarinHealth has opened a Women’s Lifelong Health & Wellness Clinic in Greenbrae offering longer, team-based care for menopause and midlife health. The clinic is led by Dr. Lizellen La Follette and is accepting patients.

A M Health Fairview air-mobile ECMO team flew to Belle Plaine in March and placed a portable heart pump that helped save a 39-year-old mother. The rescue highlights the program's push to bring advanced cardiac care to rural suburbs.

Hospitals and charities across the Austin area are adding NICU beds, opening new units and expanding family housing as neonatal intensive‑care needs rise.

Wake Forest researchers analyzed the U.S. POINTER trial and found coach‑led diet and exercise programs produced measurable reductions in frailty over 24 months.

A new Common Sense Media assessment finds safety gaps in AI mental-health apps for teens; two consumer apps vanished and Wysa earned an "unacceptable" rating.

Livingood Daily agreed to a $50,000 Prop 65 settlement after tests found lead and PFOA in several supplements; the deal imposes warnings, testing and sales limits for California customers.

Honolulu psychiatrist Dr. Chad Koyanagi won NAMI’s 2026 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award for street psychiatry and helping open Hawaii’s first Behavioral Health Crisis Center.

Two D.C. families say their infants were secretly enrolled in a 1960s NIH‑backed RSV trial and later died; lawyers allege preserved tissue informed 2023 vaccine research.