Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the USA, is the only member of the Indian Diaspora who has served twice as the Surgeon General. He spoke with Mandayam Osuri Thirunarayanan for ...

The Failure of 'Public Health' The term "public health" has come into well-deserved disrepute in recent years because of the overreach of government officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Panic often ...

Physician turned wellness influencer and ‘Make America Healthy Again’ champion Dr. Casey Means is poised to become the nation’s top doctor. But first, the Surgeon General nominee will need to navigate ...

Jerome Adams, President Trump’s first-term surgeon general, is becoming one of the most prominent voices speaking out against the public health policies and decisions carried out in the president’s ...

As part of our series on community and service, called Here to Help, Mary Louise Kelly speaks to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the benefits of volunteering. Time for our series Here ...

Cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke are responsible for 1 in 5 deaths. Despite progress the United States population has made in reducing its cigarette smoking, the measure of that progress has not ...

Update: The confirmation hearing for President Trump's surgeon general nominee scheduled for Oct. 30 at 11 a.m. was canceled. Dr. Casey Means, who is pregnant, went into labor. The Department of ...

The Office of the Surgeon General isn’t often in the news these days, for the simple reason that it isn’t much of an office any more. It certainly was once. Until the mid-’60s the Surgeon General’s ...

Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, who ended mass promotions of vaccines, has been appointed to a top job in Centers ...