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The rate of serious medical complications increased in hospitals after they were purchased by private equity investment firms, according to…
One thing I love about editing the Ask Well column is the camaraderie of it. Every week we answer a…
When Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli moved into the director’s suite at the National Institutes of Health, she brought with her…
The Biden administration on Monday warned the governors of nine states of unusually high Medicaid coverage losses among children, suggesting…
At several congressional hearings this year, ideas to fix drug shortages were as numerous as the number of scarce drugs.…
Three years ago, Jesús Tilano went to a hospital in a thickly forested valley in Colombia with large open lesions…
The New York State Department of Health is scrutinizing Bellevue Hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians to assist doctors in weight-loss…
Bristol Myers Squibb, the global pharmaceutical giant, said on Friday that it would acquire Karuna Therapeutics, which makes drugs to…
This month, as the patient lay anesthetized on a table, a cardiologist made a half-inch incision through the skin of…
Why It Matters: The Affordable Care Act is expanding its reach. Despite a recent warning from former President Donald J.…
Later in 2020, Ms. Lavelle also complained to the board, describing how she had been traumatized by her daughter’s tongue-tie…
As he mounts a long-shot primary challenge to President Biden, Representative Dean Phillips says he has had an epiphany about…
The gunshots rang out at 8:13 a.m., echoing across the high school football field and middle school garden. They continued…
Five African countries are battling outbreaks of anthrax, with nearly 1,200 people affected so far and 20 deaths, according to…
Stephanie Scanlan learned about the shortages of basic chemotherapy drugs this spring in the most frightening way. Two of the…
In December 1977, Dr. Jeanne Hoff, a 39-year-old psychiatrist, invited a television crew into her Manhattan home. The next day,…
Tongue, lip and cheek-tie releases are often recommended to help with breastfeeding or to prevent health problems. Few studies have…
Dr. Michael H. Stone, a psychiatrist and scholar who sought to define evil and to differentiate its manifestations from the…
An autopsy report released by the Los Angeles County medical examiner on Friday said the death of “Friends” actor Matthew…
Across the country, neonatal intensive care units provide critical care to seriously ill babies. That care can be lifesaving but…
With dozens of children across the United States suffering from lead poisoning, federal regulators are now investigating whether the culprit…
For the past month, New York City has been inviting teenagers to participate in one of the biggest experiments in…
Dr. Mandy K. Cohen dropped by the Fox affiliate in Dallas in November, just days after the governor of Texas…
The nausea and vomiting that often define the first trimester of pregnancy are primarily caused by a single hormone, according…
Neanderthals were morning people, a new study suggests. And some humans today who like getting up early might credit genes…
The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would decide on the availability of a commonly used abortion pill, the…
“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. Data has long been in the background…
Would you like more energy as you go about your day? We’ll bet the answer is yes. Whether you’re younger…
Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the…
Dr. Edward Lewis, a pediatrician in Rochester, N.Y., has seen hundreds of children with obesity over the years in his…
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought…
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene editing therapy ever to be used in humans, for…
Dr. John A. Talbott, a psychiatrist who championed the care of vulnerable populations of the mentally ill, especially the homeless…
Toby Gould was an early adopter. In September, Mr. Gould, 78, went to a pharmacy in Hyannis, Mass., to get…
SmileDirectClub, a telehealth company that sold teeth-straightening devices through the mail and faced criticism from medical groups, said on Friday…
More than two decades ago, Congress declared that victims of government-caused nuclear contamination who developed cancer and other serious illnesses…
The couple couldn’t quite remember when the 61-year-old man started to get sick. Was it before he retired the previous…
Early one morning in February, a guard clanged on the door of David Mustiga’s jail cell on Rikers Island. Soon,…
As an unidentified canine respiratory illness continues to pop up in clusters around the United States — causing symptoms like…
The Biden administration is delaying a decision on whether to ban menthol cigarettes amid intense lobbying from tobacco companies, convenience…
For more than 40 years, Mississippi had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the nation, and its high…
Dr. William P. Murphy Jr., a biomedical engineer who was an inventor of the vinyl blood bag that replaced breakable…
Traumatic brain injuries have left more than five million Americans permanently disabled. They have trouble focusing on even simple tasks…
On the last Thursday of August, Jennifer Livovich spent the morning simmering beans and cheese sauce in her Boulder, Colo.,…
In many states, if you are part of a couple raising a child, and you never marry or you get…
The speed with which the court scheduled the case may reflect its awareness of the opioid problem. But legal experts…
Most older Americans want to live at home as long as they can, but finding and affording the help they…
It’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that…
There were an estimated 249 million cases of malaria around the globe last year, the World Health Organization said on…
The rate of suicides involving guns in the United States has reached the highest level since officials began tracking it…
Dr. Abraham B. Bergman, a pediatrician who was instrumental in passing a federal law to combat sudden infant death syndrome,…
Ideally, such treatments can help transform the traumatic memory into one that more closely resembles ordinary sad memories. “It’s like…
France will ban smoking on beaches, near public buildings like schools and in public parks and forests next year, the…
Life expectancy in the United States has begun to climb again as the threat of Covid-19 has receded, increasing by…
A Number That Sums It Up: Thousands of lives have been saved with CAR-T. CAR-T involves removing a type of…
For seven years, Sulemana Musah put almost every bit of money that came his way into his war with hepatitis…
Longevity drugs are intended for healthy dogs, which changes the risk-benefit calculus. “It’s one thing if a dog is on…
The motives for relocating vary, of course. Ms. Cave, 67, moved to Riderwood because “I was the daughter who had…
Large outbreaks of diseases that primarily kill children are spreading around the world, a grim legacy of disruptions to health…
Below the shattered windows of the high-rise hotels in downtown Acapulco, people walk alongside towering hills of garbage bags filled…
The World Health Organization said that China had shared data about a recent surge in respiratory illnesses in children, one…
Two people have died in a salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes as cases have more than doubled since the outbreak…
If you’re wealthy, you’ll be able to afford help in your home or care in an assisted-living facility or a…
Coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, is far more harmful to human health than previously thought, according to a new…
