 | RFK Jr. Cancels Meeting of Key Preventive Health Panel |
The task force recommends which screenings and other preventive health measures must be covered by insurance. | |
| Justice Dept. Demands Private Patient Info From Trans Youth Medicine Providers |
Doctors and hospitals were subpoenaed for private information on gender-related care for minors, the latest move by the Trump administration to stop the treatments. | |
| F.D.A. Posts Collection of Letters Outlining Concerns About New Drugs |
The letters, many of which were already available online, detail why the regulators initially declined to approve some drugs. All eventually passed muster. | |
| New Research Questions Severity of Withdrawal From Antidepressants |
Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown. | |
| Life Expectancy in California Has Not Rebounded After Covid |
The state?s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid. | |
| Lung Cancer Screening on Wheels |
On the road with a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer that crisscrosses West Virginia, saving lives. | |
| Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice |
New restrictions on Covid shots run counter to scientific evidence, the groups said. | |
| A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us |
In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia. | |
| A Century Ago, Adolescents Weren?t Fully Human |
Looking back at an awkward moment in the history of adolescent psychology. | |
| Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows |
An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration?s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs. | |
| Trump?s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans, Too |
The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. | |
| Why So Many Women Feel Pain During Their C-Sections |
Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast ?The Retrievals,? talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain during their C-sections. | |
| Why So Many Women Feel Pain During Their C-Sections |
Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast ?The Retrievals,? talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain during their C-sections. | |
| Psych 101: What Is ?Reparenting?? |
The concept, centered around healing your ?inner child,? is catchy. Here?s what experts have to say. | |
| Measles Cases Hit Highest Total Since U.S. Eliminated Disease |
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal. | |
| What to Know About the Collapse of the F.D.A. |
The regulatory agency confronts a future determined by a health secretary hostile to its mission. | |
| Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A. |
How the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is dismantling the agency. | |
| RFK Jr.?s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M?s |
The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets. | |
| North Carolina Braces For Medicaid Cuts Because of Trump?s Bill |
President Trump?s domestic policy law jeopardizes plans to reopen one rural county?s hospital ? and health coverage for hundreds of thousands of state residents. | |
| Anna Ornstein, Psychoanalyst Who Survived the Holocaust, Dies at 98 |
Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better. | |
| S. Daniel Abraham, Who Reaped Riches With Slim-Fast, Dies at 100 |
He turned a small family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with ?just add milk.? | |
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