A psychologist's claims about Donald Trump's cognitive fitness have been rejected by the White House as the administration weighs its next steps on Iran. The remarks coincide with new reports of expanded US military deployments and stalled diplomacy.

President Donald Trump is preparing to make health care a central focus of his midterm sales pitch, despite weak polling and misgivings among some of his own advisers.

Trump will have his largest annual audience — 36.6 million tuned in to last year’s address to Congress — to make the case that he and the Republican Party have the strongest policies to tackle the high cost of living and to blame Democrats under former President Joe Biden for causing the problems.

Trump's leg veins fail to effectively pump blood back to the heart, causing it to pool in the lower limbs.

Donald Trump’s second term has roiled medical care in America. With cuts to Medicaid, drug-pricing deals, the sudden ubiquity of “Make America Healthy Again” and the end of extra marketplace subsidies, few areas of health care will be left untouched. The result will be a lasting impact on Americans’ health.

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump's administration cannot pull back $600 million in public health grants allocated to four Democratic-led states, including Illinois, for now.

Oregon and a coalition of Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration, arguing that federal officials unlawfully upended the nation’s long-standing childhood vaccine schedule and weakened safeguards meant to protect children.

Public health experts and former federal staffers are uneasy over National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya’s rising influence over U.S. health policy as he temporarily takes on the added role of leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Supporters of the “Make America Healthy Again” strategy have long railed against pesticides, making opposition to them a pillar of the movement.