Health & Wellness

Combative, Defensive and Occasionally Contrite, Kennedy...

In four days of congressional testimony, the health secretary sought to please t...

RFK Jr. Says His Department Advises All Children to Get...

Testifying on Capitol Hill, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to back away from hi...

Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second ...

The agency has approved far fewer new grants than it did in years past. A renewe...

‘Free Births’ Are a New Pregnancy Trend. Critics Warn A...

Promoters of free birthing reject any type of medical intervention during pregna...

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline

Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embrace...

A $440,000 Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed In on t...

A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-...

Two Drugs Stir Hope for Treatment of Deadly Pancreatic ...

In separate small clinical trials, two treatments showed promise that they could...

RFK Jr. Refused to Commit to Backing New CDC Director o...

In a tense congressional hearing, the health secretary also said he bore no resp...

UnitedHealth Group Reports Flat First-Quarter Earnings

One of the nation’s largest insurers, the company’s profits were higher than ana...

What Is Borderline Personality Disorder?

Volatile relationships, reckless impulsivity and an unstable identity are hallma...

Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans

The space agency is counting on Jeff Bezos’ company to deliver equipment essenti...

How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order — Wi...

The kea gained fame for learning to use a pebble to groom himself. Scientists we...

The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most

With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of co...

Trump Expected to Loosen Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

An upcoming executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compound...

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

A chemist, she lent her expertise in drug research to ACT UP, an organization kn...

New Treatment Lets 3 Transplant Patients Halt Anti-Reje...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh gave transplant recipients certain i...