Health
First Day of a ‘New Life’ for a Boy With Sickle Cell
Kendric Cromer, 12, is among the first patients to be treated with gene therapy...
Hiking Trail in Hawaii Closes After Norovirus Outbreak
Four people tested positive for the virus, which causes a highly contagious gastrointestinal...
Mushroom-Laced Candy Recall Highlights F.D.A.’s Limited...
More than 150 people were sickened from products sold at smoke and vape shops, providing...
Exposing a Hospital Chain’s Disturbing Practices
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas spent months looking into a psychiatric...
Broken Again. A National Advocate for Drug Recovery Relapses.
William Cope Moyers told the world he had it all figured out after beating his addiction...
Time to Say Goodbye to the B.M.I.?
The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A...
The Pivotal Decision That Led to a Resurgence of Polio
In 2016, the global health authorities removed a type of poliovirus from the oral...
Salmonella Outbreak Prompts Egg Recall by Wisconsin Farm
Officials said 65 people in nine states have been infected in the outbreak, which...
Bird Flu Has Already Appeared in These New York Markets....
It’s not just rural farms. Urban animal markets are fertile grounds for viral transmission,...
Missouri Reports Bird Flu in a Patient Without a Known...
Previous human infections occurred in workers on farms. But community transmission...
How a Rural Maine County Jail Helped Prisoners Blunt Opioid...
A sheriff fought to give prisoners addicted to opioids a shot that suppresses cravings...
Dr. Anthony Fauci Recovering From West Nile Virus Infection
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
He Regulated Medical Devices. She Represented Their Makers.
Ethics rules barred Dr. Jeffrey E. Shuren from working on matters involving clients...
Polio Vaccines Arrive in Gaza, but Distributing Them Is...
UNICEF is pushing for a pause in the fighting to allow health workers to get two...
Covid Normalcy: No Tests, Isolation or Masks
For many, Covid is increasingly regarded like the common cold. A scratchy throat...
Why Is the Loneliness Epidemic So Hard to Cure?
Maybe because we aren’t thinking about it in the right way.
