WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ free COVID-19 test distribution program has allowed millions of households to get tests, delivered by mail, for the past several years.

The heavily mutated new BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, aka "cicada," is circulating in at least 25 U.S. states, the CDC said. What to know about its spread and symptoms.

The report found that the shots cut the likelihood of hospitalizations, but the agency’s acting head said it gave an ...

The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed. By Christina Jewett and Jacey Fortin The ...

Vitamin D does not prevent COVID-19 but may keep long COVID at bay, a new study suggests. Image credit: Viktoriya Skorikova/Getty Images Anyone who is infected with the coronavirus that causes ...

Many Americans grew accustomed to easily getting their coronavirus vaccines and boosters at their local pharmacy during the pandemic. But changes at the federal level and a patchwork of laws in states ...

JoAnn Manson, MD, shares findings from the VIVID trial on vitamin D, the timing of use, and its potential to reduce long COVID risk and symptom severity. AJMC: To what extent might the timing of ...

Dr. Peter McCullough, left, Dr. Jordan Vaughn, Dr. James Thorp, Dr. Joel Wallskog, Aaron Siri and Gov. Josh Green were sworn in Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Capitol Hill ...

The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried. It was two years after the pandemic, she said, when the ...

An illustration of a scientist opening a blue surgical mask as if it were a wallet. The wallet is empty inside. Funding for new long COVID treatments is severely lacking, scrambling research and ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Low plasma vitamin D levels emerged as an independent risk factor for COVID-19 infection and ...