Health & Wellness

Health Insurance Giants Are Fighting Efforts to Brea...

UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna are suing states over new laws targe...

The Unknown Universe Inside Your Gut

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only beg...

Andrea Shaw, Plaintiff in Anti-Vaccine Suit, Is Char...

A lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense, an organization founded by Robe...

Trump Administration Guts Efforts to Prevent Gun Vio...

As the administration works to expand gun rights, hospitals and community gro...

Efforts to Help Smokers Quit Stall Under Trump

The C.D.C.’s tobacco control office has been shut for more than a year. After...

For Families With Nonspeaking Autistic Children, a F...

Popular communication methods for nonspeaking autistic people have ignited a ...

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He...

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He...

What Is the Heat Index? What To Know About the Metri...

The metric of how hot the air actually feels has roots in a 1979 journal pape...

Regular Users Can Tolerate Previously ‘Unsurvivable’...

New research shows that tolerance has become so strong that common treatments...

Nine Arrested in Federal Crackdown on L.A.’s Sex-Tra...

Federal officials in Los Angeles described gang members’ yearslong scheme tha...

Trump Administration Delivers Lucrative Win for Its ...

In moving to ban a potent synthetic version of kratom, the president’s team p...

States Sue Trump Administration Over Medicaid Work R...

The lawsuit argues that new federal rules went beyond what Congress enacted a...

Medicare Begins Coverage of GLP-1 Drugs for Weight L...

What you should know about the federal government’s pilot program offering GL...

Trump Issues Order to Reduce Pesticides in Food as K...

The order, which calls for studying the health risks of pesticides in the foo...

Congo Ebola Crisis: Contact Tracing Is Dangerously B...

Most of the people testing positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of C...