As he prepares to end his second term in office, Dr. Vivek Murthy reflects on the nation's biggest impediment to health.

Speaking to the Akron Roundtable Nov. 12, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said multiple factors "are driving a culture of loneliness and isolation." “It's a consumer culture that tells us ...

WASHINGTON -- The surgeon general is warning Americans about the "urgent threat of health misinformation" amid the government's current push to boost stalling vaccination rates. Dr. Vivek Murthy's ...

Health misinformation spreads faster than any virus. Those words from the current surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, capture the urgency of a moment when public trust in science is already fragile and now ...

Amid mounting lawsuits against social media companies and mental health concerns, the question remains: Is social media addiction real?

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has been sounding the alarm on the loneliness epidemic for more than a year. In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," Murthy wrote that ...

For the first time, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, released a major report on substance abuse, called "Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health." ...