Author: Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY

A variety of factors, such as low COVID-19 vaccination rates and Americans’ general poor health, is behind the life expectancy drop, experts say.

A growing, but still incomplete body of research suggests the cannabis plant, the source of marijuana, can help fight some kinds of pain.

Experts are predicting COVID cases in China will explode after the country ended its strict zero-COVID policy. Here’s how the US may be affected.

More free at-home COVID tests are part of the White House’s plan to combat rising cases this winter season.

Doctors are increasingly looking to alternative ways to address pain, through exercise, physical therapy, yoga, meditation, massage and acupuncture.

To better understand America’s pain problem and what to do about it, USA TODAY spoke with more than 50 pain experts and people with chronic pain.

New medicines like Wegovy promise dramatic weight loss, but there’s a long way to go to make anti-obesity drugs accessible to those who need them.

Cases of the disease formerly known as monkeypox are down as the Biden administration declares an end to the public health emergency.

Six drug companies are now developing RSV vaccines or antibodies, suggesting this year could be the last without adequate tools to fight the virus.