Health & Wellness

Trump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary

Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but ...

What Is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

It may look like vanity, but it’s a debilitating mental health condition.

Hantavirus Is Nothing Like Coronavirus, but It’s Bringi...

Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch...

Employees With Medical Conditions Challenge C.D.C. In-O...

The health agency has been particularly strict in abolishing at-home work, overr...

Her Self-Experiment with Drug Detox Almost Broke Her

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to...

F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid an...

The agency’s scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient record...

Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepres...

The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medi...

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion P...

A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement t...

A Medical Examiner Chases Down an Elusive Killer

Unusual opioids are infiltrating street drugs. Knoxville’s top forensic doctor i...

What to Know About Orphines, a New Class of Deadly Opioids

The drugs are 10 times more dangerous than fentanyl. They are showing up in stre...

What Is Hantavirus, Which Is Linked to the Deaths of 3 ...

Three people aboard a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean have died from what...

A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Ps...

For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilo...

3 Medical Routines That Older People May Not Need

Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Re...

N.I.H. Reinstates Employee Put on Leave After Criticizi...

Jenna Norton had filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming that the agency leade...

F.D.A. Grants Early Access to Promising Drug for Pancre...

Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved ...

Top Psychiatrists Call for a Greater Focus on Ceasing M...

With Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aiming to rein in the use of psychia...