The nation?s largest insurer?s profits exceeded analysts? expectations but still fell short of showing a significant comeback.

With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community health care workers prevent older adults from falling through the cracks.

The president?s executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds? efficacy in treating mental health disorders like severe depression and PTSD.

The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration?s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh gave transplant recipients certain immune cells from their organ donors. It didn?t always work.

A chemist, she lent her expertise in drug research to ACT UP, an organization known for its street protests, and helped accelerate the approval of H.I.V. and AIDS treatments.

Dr. Erica Schwartz is seen as a highly qualified traditional choice and tapping her is the strongest signal yet that the administration is veering away from vaccine skepticism this election year.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought to roll back longstanding vaccine policy, testified that the measles vaccine is safe and effective ?for most people? and agreed it was safer than getting measles.

The review said a certain class of drugs had little clinical benefit, but many Alzheimer?s experts criticized the analysis, saying it unfairly lumped failed drugs with two recently approved treatments.

In a tense congressional hearing, the health secretary also said he bore no responsibility for the measles outbreak in the United States.

Volatile relationships, reckless impulsivity and an unstable identity are hallmarks of this misunderstood mental health condition.

The kea gained fame for learning to use a pebble to groom himself. Scientists were astounded by his next innovation.

On top of the daily toll of treating patients, the show?s medical providers bring their own scars to the E.R.

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn?t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.

Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that?s OK.

Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida?s Health Department.

If you are on the fence, or have already made a decision, we want to hear about it.

Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests.

A psychologist, she urged patients to confront the things that frightened them, revolutionizing her field?s approach to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Whether you?re looking to manage a health condition, lose weight or simply eat better, we want to hear from you.

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