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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Congress to require health warning labels that inform consumers about the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer.

A shift in a key vaccine advisory committee has raised alarms among public health experts. The ACIP routinely makes ...

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While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found ...

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: TURN AWAY! BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS! Social media has been found to be dangerous to your mental health, causing everything from stress to sadness to rage to “the yips ...

The surgeon general is not just an advisor but a field-tested leader who must command respect, coordinate with other uniformed services and represent the nation on the global public health stage.

On Jan. 11, 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry released a landmark report that said smoking cigarettes caused illness and led to death. Moreover, he said the government should do something about it.

The fact that U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has no legal authority to mandate cancer warnings on alcoholic beverage labels did not prevent him, as Dry January began, to propose just such a caveat.

Trump's ex-surgeon general suggests new nominee Casey Means lacks needed qualifications Trump's former surgeon general says holding a medical license is essential for the position.

Dr. Murthy is the surgeon general. One day when my daughter was a year old, she stopped moving her right leg. Tests found that she had a deep infection in her thigh that was dangerously close to ...