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Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, the longtime chief executive officer of Baton Rouge General Medical Center, died Sunday at 84.

America has allowed for-profit hospitals and private equity to engulf health care, and we have permitted healing to take a back seat to earnings.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is tapping Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as his nominee for surgeon ...

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 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inadvertently destroyed his own nominee for surgeon general by giving a rare, good piece of medical advice. During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlin Collins ...

As surgeon general under Ronald Reagan, C. Everett Koop traveled in evangelical circles. But the partnership was always uneasy.

So what does it say to my generation, to all of us, when President Donald Trump nominates someone who doesn’t even hold an active medical license to be the surgeon general of the United States?

The surgeon general, considered the nation’s doctor, oversees 6,000 U.S. Public Health Service Corps members and can issue advisories that warn of public health threats.