Category: Health Fitness

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sharply criticized pharmacy benefit managers, saying in a scathing 71-page report that “these powerful…

An expert on Parkinson’s disease from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight…

Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. Many students begin…

About a month ago, Judith Hansen popped awake in the predawn hours, thinking about her father’s brain. Her father, Morrie…

The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to limit the broad regulatory authority of federal agencies could lead to the elimination…

It didn’t become part of vaccination programs in Africa until 2024. What if it had come faster? What if the…

The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on…

“Hey, buddy, how are you doing?” a man wearing a Boba Fett costume said as he leaned over the bed…

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells…

The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with…

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel class…

Spring Fertility, a clinic in Midtown Manhattan, looks like the place where the main characters on “Broad City” would have…

These early studies “highlighted both the potential that we could learn from dogs, but also that we were going to…

Ann Lurie, a self-described hippie who went on to become one of Chicago’s most celebrated philanthropists, in one instance giving…

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research on fatal lung disease in newborns led to lifesaving treatments…

When I was growing up, my dad, who has left the country only a few times, told me about the…

A patient walks into a hospital room, sits down and starts talking to a doctor. Only in this case, the…

Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzling over how it spreads from…

A scientist whose research has been at the center of controversy over an Alzheimer’s drug candidate has been charged with…

Superficially, abortion rights had a good run at the Supreme Court this term. Two weeks ago, the justices unanimously let…

All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this…

Kiyomi Lowe regularly hears people mispronounce her name or sometimes forget it altogether. “I get Naomi, Kaiomi, sometimes Kimmy,” she…

The Supreme Court seems poised to temporarily allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a woman’s health is at risk, according…

Federal health officials warned that the risk of contracting dengue in the United States has increased this year, a worrying…

Health officials in the Biden administration pressed an international group of medical experts to remove age limits for adolescent surgeries…

A hard-won provision of the Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their family’s insurance until age 26.…

Amy Conroy sat alone in a veterinary exam room, hands clutching a water bottle, eyes blinking back tears. Her 16-year-old…

Unlike most other supplements, fish oil has been rigorously studied, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard…

Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. New York Times pharmaceutical…

Heather Massey brought Ladybird to the veterinarian when the 9-year-old mutt began having seizures. A scan from an M.R.I. machine…

When P.B.M.s overcharge, it can increase costs for patients, not just employers and government programs like Medicare. The country’s most…

Pets are more popular than ever. Roughly two-thirds of American homes have at least one pet, up from 56 percent…

It can take generic makers years to get ready to produce a drug, and they need to have a sense…

If you’ve ever had trouble getting a prescription drug, chances are you’ve run into a pharmacy benefit manager. These companies,…

The bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle has so far spilled over to just three farmworkers in the United States,…

Snap. Crack. Pop. These sounds, once used to sell a popular breakfast cereal, are now enticing people to visit the…

In July 2016, a heat wave hit Boston, with daytime temperatures averaging 92 degrees for five days in a row.…

When the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, announced on Monday that he was planning to push for a mental…

Drinking increased during the pandemic, which may be why news of any kind about alcohol seems to have found a…

Kim Short waited in the doctor’s exam room on an icy day in February, exhausted from the first trimester of…

A new law in Florida allowing doctors to perform cesarean sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns…

On a typical day, Ali Mullen races from her job at the county health department in Helena, Mont., to pick…

I found Joy’s ingenuous thrill to be strongly endearing, but I, like many others, was also a bit terrified of…

Many firearm owners in the United States do not securely store their guns, even when the weapon is kept loaded…

Morrie Markoff, a supercentenarian blogger and scrap-metal sculptor who was believed to be the oldest man in the United States…

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower…

Space changes you, even during short trips off the planet. Four people who spent three days off Earth in September…

The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed removing medical debt from the credit reports of more than 15 million Americans, making…

Beneath a row of fir trees River Shannon Aloia walks along a remote dirt road on national forest land, scanning…

A committee of independent advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Monday that the benefits outweigh the…

At an assisted living facility in New York State, a small crowd had gathered at the dining room entrance at…

Surgeons removed the kidney of a genetically engineered pig from a critically ill patient last week after the organ was…

One of the nation’s premier medical advisory organizations has weighed in on long Covid with a 265-page report that recognizes…

The American Cancer Society has begun an ambitious, far-reaching study focusing on a population that has long been overlooked, despite…

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, is being tried in federal court for falsely claiming on a gun purchase application that…

Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers because the bird flu virus acquired mutations that allowed it to…

A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Wednesday to update the formula for the Covid…

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to approve the use of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, for treatment…

An independent advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration rejected the use of MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder…

Using her arms as a makeshift clapboard, a Sudanese woman in a black hijab and black-and-white caftan clapped her hands…

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former government scientist both celebrated and despised for his work on Covid, on Monday forcefully…

Louisiana lawmakers passed legislation on Thursday to make the state the first in the nation to designate abortion pills as…

The chairmen of two Senate committees overseeing health policy, concerned about companies “padding their own profits” at the expense of…

Post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses among college students more than doubled between 2017 and 2022, climbing most sharply as the coronavirus…

Long before people develop dementia, they often begin falling behind on mortgage payments, credit card bills and other financial obligations,…

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday raised concerns about the health effects of MDMA as a treatment for post-traumatic…

Take a moment to imagine a small gray rock sitting in the palm of your hand. It’s silent, smooth and…

A third farmworker in the United States has been found to be infected with bird flu, heightening concerns about an…

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud…

Fluctuating disease rates, innovative treatments and talk of “moonshots” in the White House may make cancer seem like a modern…

Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a novel method of couples therapy based on…

House Republicans on Tuesday accused officials at the National Institutes of Health of orchestrating “a conspiracy at the highest levels”…

In more than a dozen states, doctors and nurses have resorted to paper and handwritten treatment orders to chart patient…

Unpasteurized milk contaminated with H5N1, the bird-flu virus that has turned up in dairy herds in nine states, has been…

On the stunning Kenyan coast, about halfway between 15th-century ruins and the vibrant city of Mombasa, a small factory is…

The Latest Colorectal cancer rates are rapidly rising among adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s, and the most common…

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Slowly but steadily, Marlene Nathanson was recovering. She had suffered a stroke in November 2022 at her home in Minneapolis…

Countries around the globe have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unify the world…

Beef tissue from a sick dairy cow has tested positive for the bird flu virus, federal officials said on Friday.…

A committee of experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration voted by large majorities on Thursday that a new…

For the first time on record, cannabis has outpaced alcohol as the daily drug of choice for Americans. In 2022…

A farmworker in Michigan has been diagnosed with bird flu, state officials announced on Wednesday, making it the second human…

Louisiana could become the first state to classify abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances, making possession of the pills without…

Dr. Luch berated herself for not having thought to test the boy a day earlier, when she might have saved…

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the virus that causes rubella and developing a vaccine that…

At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.

The Study The study looked at 2,322 emergency room visits for cannabis poisoning among people 65 and older in Ontario.…

The bird flu virus that is spreading through American dairy cows can probably be traced back to a single spillover…

Overdose deaths in the United States declined slightly last year, the first decrease in five years, according to preliminary federal…

Engineers and scientists have an enduring fascination with spider silk. Similar to typical worm silk that makes for comfy bedsheets,…

It takes a lot of energy to grow a baby — just ask anyone who has been pregnant. But scientists…

With Pride events scheduled worldwide over the coming weeks, U.S. officials are bracing for a return of mpox, the infectious…

As a reporter who covers sex and intimacy, I spend a lot of time listening to experts extol the virtues…

When a patient with a severe traumatic brain injury is comatose, in intensive care, unresponsive and hooked up to a…

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an innovative new treatment for patients with a form of lung cancer.…

Sexually transmitted diseases are resurging across the United States. More than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022,…

The Biden administration, under acute pressure from House lawmakers, moved on Wednesday to ban funding for a prominent virus-hunting nonprofit…

There’s quite a good body of research now on the neuroscience of meditation, showing that it improves self-awareness, emotion regulation,…

Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer’s that would mean that up to a fifth…

After 30 years as one of England’s top pediatricians, Dr. Hilary Cass was hoping to begin her retirement by learning…

The four adult children were in agreement. Their father, William Curry, a retired electrical engineer and business executive, was sinking…

Geriatrics is a field of sleuthing. To solve medical enigmas, doctors must become detectives, teasing out the effects of overlapping…

Richard “Rick” Slayman, who made history at age 62 as the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically…

Half a century ago, one of the hottest questions in science was whether humans could teach animals to talk. Scientists…

Artificial intelligence is giving machines the power to generate videos, write computer code and even carry on a conversation. It…

Nancy Neveloff Dubler, a medical ethicist who pioneered using mediation at hospital bedsides to navigate the complex dynamics among headstrong…

The Biden administration said on Friday that it would compensate dairy farmers for cooperating with its efforts to limit the…

Dr. Herbert Pardes, a psychiatrist and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health who brought order to…

Even as it has become increasingly clear that the bird flu outbreak on the nation’s dairy farms began months earlier…

Several large-scale, human-driven changes to the planet — including climate change, the loss of biodiversity and the spread of invasive…

Academic conferences are usually staid affairs, but the 1973 International Symposium on Gender Identity, held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, was an…

In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned…

When Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer — the most advanced form — at 23, questions swirled…

On Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from a suburb of Washington, became the first person in the world with…

At 7 p.m. on May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53, strode onto the stage of the magnificent Theater…

When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on a nationwide college tour last fall, he started to hear the same kind…

Scientists observed a wild male orangutan repeatedly rubbing chewed-up leaves of a medicinal plant on a facial wound in a…

Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained…

Some Context: A frightening trend examined more closely. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Children’s Hospital of Richmond had previously…

Even leading experts in vaccine science have run up against disbelief and ambivalence. Dr. Gregory Poland, 68, editor in chief…

The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that…

Soon after their arrival in late December 2020, the Covid-19 vaccines turned the pandemic around and opened a path back…

Prairie voles are stocky rodents and Olympian tunnellers that surface in grassy areas to feast on grass, roots and seeds…

Additional testing of retail dairy products from across the country has turned up no signs of live bird flu virus,…

A California company is recalling organic walnuts that were sold at natural food stores and coop retailers in 19 states…

Every family has its archetypes, so here’s mine: My dad and my brother and I are all miserable. None of…

The Justice Department plans to recommend easing restrictions on marijuana in what could amount to a major change in federal…

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Philips Respironics has reached a $1.1 billion settlement over claims that people who used their CPAP and other breathing devices…

As diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy took off in the last few years, many people turned away…

Penny Simkin, a childbirth educator and author who was often described as the “mother of the doula movement,” died on…

In the 10 years since the drugmaker Gilead debuted a revolutionary treatment for hepatitis C, a wave of new therapies…

At least three women were infected with H.I.V. during cosmetic “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed spa in Albuquerque, federal…

Federal regulators on Friday said that they had not yet discovered live bird flu virus in the first batch of…

The Biden administration said on Friday that it was delaying a decision on whether to ban menthol cigarettes as federal…

For decades, the idea of standing properly upright carried considerable political and social baggage. Slouching was considered a sign of…

Antidepressants are among the most prescribed medications in the United States. This is, in part, because the number of people…

The Biden administration on Wednesday said that it would begin requiring dairy cows moving across state lines to be tested…

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the sale of an antibiotic for the treatment of urinary tract infections…

Federal regulators said on Tuesday that samples of pasteurized milk from around the country had tested positive for inactive remnants…

Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partly fused but who managed to lead independent lives, died on…

Dr. Joel Breman, a specialist in infectious diseases who was a member of the original team that helped combat the…

In her three decades of working with elephant seals, Dr. Marcela Uhart had never seen anything like the scene on…

In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is inspiring and infuriating her followers.

In the month since federal authorities announced an outbreak of bird flu on dairy farms, they have repeatedly reassured the…

Martin J. Wygod, a Wall Street whiz who graduated from walking horses after races to owning and breeding championship thoroughbreds…

Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen has a problem: Too many people want what he’s selling. Mr. Jorgensen is the chief executive of…

Some Context: Experts say bad situations can often be reversed with treatment. Both mental health and drug addiction crises have…

“Have an abortion with me,” a single mother from Brooklyn named Sunni says as she twirls around her kitchen to…

Navigating the health care system in the United States can often feel like being lost in a maze. What kind…

A pill taken once a week. A shot administered at home once a month. Even a jab given at a…

Federal regulators on Tuesday issued new protections for miners against a type of dust long known to cause deadly lung…

Lindsey McNeil and her 7-year-old daughter, Noelle, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, were jolted by an alert they received…

Dr. David Egilman, a physician and expert witness who, over a 35-year span, gave testimony in some 600 trials involving…

A Chinese company targeted by members of Congress over potential ties to the Chinese government makes blockbuster drugs for the…

Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called “coercive control,” which describes the…

They’re in makeup, dental floss and menstrual products. They’re in nonstick pans and takeout food wrappers. Same with rain jackets…

The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from…

Yuxin Sun, a psychologist in Seattle, sees a lot of clients at her group practice who insist they aren’t perfectionists.…

Bennett Braun, a Chicago psychiatrist whose diagnoses of repressed memories involving horrific abuse by devil worshipers helped to fuel what…

For decades, Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr., a transplant surgeon in Texas, gained accolades and national prominence for his work,…

It was 1:53 a.m., and Peter Fink was on a barren mountain plateau near Campo, Calif., passing out blankets to…

The outbreak of dengue fever that has unfolded in Latin America over the past three months is staggering in its…

Overall, the health needs of women in Bangladesh take a back seat to those of men. “In our male-dominated society,…

The 160-year-old Arizona abortion ban that was upheld on Tuesday by the state’s highest court was among a wave of…

The National Health Service in England started restricting gender treatments for children this month, making it the fifth European country…