Their Mothers Were Teenagers. They Didn’t Want That for Themselves.

Teen pregnancies have plummeted, as has child poverty. The result is a profound change in the forces that bring opportunity between generations.

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How Bad Is China’s Covid Outbreak? It’s a Scientific Guessing Game.

In the absence of credible information from the Chinese government, researchers around the world are looking for any clues to determine the size and severity of the surge.

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Congressional Investigation into Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm Faults the F.D.A. and Biogen

The report said the F.D.A.’s approval process for Aduhelm was “rife with irregularities” and criticized Biogen for setting an “unjustifiably high price.”

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How to Prevent Shoulder Injury

Shoulder pain can make your days more challenging and keep you up at night. Ward it off with a few smart exercise habits.

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As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It

Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.

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China Covid: U.S. Testing Rule Meets a Collective Shrug

The U.S. travel rule drew a muted response in a country grappling with outbreaks and where mass, regular Covid testing was up until recently a daily reality for many millions of people.

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He Had Blood in His Urine and a Strange Rash. What Was Going On?

At the E.R., the patient learned his blood wasn’t clotting. His mother had the same condition — but the trigger turned out to be a surprise.

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U.S. Announces New Covid Test Requirements for Travelers From China

The Biden administration said those coming from China, Hong Kong and Macau must show negative coronavirus tests before entering the United States.

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¿Hasta qué edad hay que hacerse el papanicolau?

Cada vez son menos las mujeres mayores de 65 años que se someten a pruebas de detección del cáncer de cuello uterino. Pero algunas se resisten a renunciar al examen.

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Parents Often Bring Children to Psychiatric E.R.s to Subdue Them, Study Finds

Many parents bring children to emergency rooms to manage aggressive behaviors. But the visits offer little long-term benefit, doctors said.

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Epidemics That Weren’t: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks

Some of the most fragile health systems in the world can teach us ways to respond to public health threats early and effectively.

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Covid Masking: What It’s Like Now That Many Have Moved On

What it’s like to wear masks for Covid when most others have long since moved on.

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China to Drop Covid Quarantine for Incoming Travelers

From Jan. 8, visitors will be required to show only a negative P.C.R. test taken within 48 hours. The restrictions had cut the country off from the rest of the world for nearly three years.

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The I.C.U. Nurse: A Symbol of Endurance

Caring for seriously ill patients needing round-the-clock attention during the pandemic has added layers of commitment.

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A New Strategy for Preventing Fentanyl Overdoses: Testing Drugs

Machines that examine samples of drugs can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, but experts say they are an increasingly vital tool in stemming overdoses.

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The F.D.A. Now Says It Plainly: Morning-After Pills Are Not Abortion Pills

Labels of Plan B One-Step had previously said, without scientific evidence, that the pill might block fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb.

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7 Women on Egg Freezing: Hope, Regret, Uncertainty

Ten years have passed since the procedure’s “experimental” label was lifted. The Times heard from hundreds of patients about their experiences.

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Egg Freezing: What to Know About the Process, Risks and Cost

The process has become increasingly popular, but it can seem unclear to prospective patients.

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How See-Through Glass Frogs Hide Their Red Blood From Predators

The glass frog’s unusual adaptation to bolster its camouflage could offer clues for preventing deadly blood clots in people.

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‘Major Trustee, Please Prioritize’: How NYU’s E.R. Favors the Rich

Dozens of doctors said the nonprofit hospital pressured them to give preferential treatment to donors, trustees and their families.

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‘Tripledemic’ Rages On: Fever-Filled Weeks Lie Ahead

R.S.V. has probably peaked, but flu is still surging and Covid-19 cases are rising. Scientists are hopeful next winter will be better.

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As Covid Deaths Climb, Even Seniors Skip the Latest Booster

Nearly all Americans over 65 got their initial Covid vaccines. But that immunity is waning, and this time, the government is offering far less support for new shots.

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Homicides of Children Soared in the Pandemic’s First Year, CDC Reports

Killings of children and teenagers under 18 increased sharply in 2020, federal researchers reported. Black communities were disproportionately affected.

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The Austere Beauty of Egypt’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails

Two new routes, managed by Bedouins, will help preserve long-overlooked natural wonders and a vanishing way of life.

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They Created a Drug for Susannah. What About Millions of Other Patients?

Scientists have made rapid progress in customizing drugs for ultrarare diseases. The hard part now is making such treatments on a large scale.

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Why Many Older Women Are Getting Pap Tests They Don’t Need

Women over 65 are being screened for cervical cancer in diminishing numbers. But some are reluctant to give up the tests.

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U.S. Health Officials Seek New Curbs on Private Medicare Advantage Plans

Proposed regulations would crack down on misleading ads for the private plans and would enhance scrutiny of denials for coverage of medical care.

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Is It Covid? The Flu? RSV? New Yorkers Are Sick of Being Sick.

New Yorkers are contending with a bewildering and miserable mix of symptoms as Covid, flu, R.S.V. and various mystery illnesses circulate.

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New Covid Booster Shots Cut Risk of Hospitalization by Half, CDC Reports

The research was conducted in part when older variants of the coronavirus were spreading. Other factors may have influenced the conclusions.

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Opposition to School Vaccine Mandates Has Grown Significantly, Study Finds

A third of parents now feel they should be the ones to decide whether to get their children immunized against measles, mumps and other childhood diseases.

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The Coronavirus May Spread From Corpses, Scientists Report

Family members and health care workers should take precautions, experts said.

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E.R. Doctors Misdiagnose Patients With Unusual Symptoms

Doctors fail to recognize serious conditions like stroke and sepsis in tens of thousands of patients each year, according to a new study.

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How a Sprawling Hospital Chain Ignited Its Own Staffing Crisis

Ascension, one of the country’s largest health systems, spent years cutting jobs, leaving it flat-footed when the pandemic hit.

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Nurses in U.K. Strike for First Time, Seeking Higher Pay

The walkout is just one of a series of industrial actions across Britain this month as ballooning inflation, rising interest rates and a recession put pressure on workers.

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U.S. Will Offer Free At-Home Covid Tests as Part of Winter Plan

With cases on the rise, the Biden administration said it would restart a program that provided hundreds of millions of tests through the Postal Service.

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What is an Aortic Aneurysm? Here are Symptoms, Risks and Treatments

They are more common than people may think. We talked to experts about the risks, symptoms and treatments

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Who Are the ‘Never-Coviders’?

Plus your experiences without Covid.

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Grant Wahl Died of a Burst Blood Vessel, His Family Says

An autopsy in New York showed that the journalist had a tear in the ascending aorta, a large vessel that carries blood from the heart.

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Long Covid Has Played Role in More Than 3,500 Deaths in US, CDC Says

The tally is less than 1 percent of all deaths linked to the coronavirus, but it shows that it is possible to die from lingering symptoms after infection.

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When Black Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color

In Atlanta, a team of mental health experts is bringing care to adolescents whose needs often go unaddressed and misunderstood.

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Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow

But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if at all.

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Congress Weighs Plan for Commission to Investigate Covid Response

The 9/11 Commission prompted a national reckoning over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A bipartisan bill would create an independent panel to investigate the pandemic response, but the measure is in limbo.

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Fentanyl Cuts a Bitter Swath Through Milwaukee

The potent opioid increasingly is afflicting people of color in American cities. “I’ve seen a lot of terrible drugs,” said a veteran drug counselor. “This is the worst.”

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Behind New York City’s Shift on Mental Health, a Solitary Quest

The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it’s paying off.

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Vaping Settlement by Juul Is Said to Total $1.7 Billion

The proposed deal would resolve thousands of lawsuits in multidistrict litigation based in Northern California.

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A Rural Hospital’s Excruciating Choice: $3.2 Million a Year or Inpatient Care?

A new federal program offers hefty payments to small hospitals at risk of closing. But it comes with a bewildering requirement: to end all inpatient care.

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Key Partner in Covax Will End Support for Middle-Income Nations

Many of the poorest countries will continue to get free Covid shots, but global demand for them has plummeted, driving a shift away from the goal of broad coverage.

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F.D.A. Authorizes Updated Covid Shots for Children as Young as 6 Months

The move broadens access to the reformulated shots, but only a small fraction of the country’s youngest children are likely to get one of the new doses in the near future.

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Scientists Have Designed a ‘Vagina on a Chip’

A silicone chip lined with tissue from human donors could help scientists test drug treatments for bacterial infections in the vagina.

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A Plea From Experts to Pregnant Women: Get Vaccinated Against Covid

Many expectant women have avoided the shots, unaware that the virus poses significant risks to the fetus — and to them.

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‘Systemic Problems’ Hindered US Pandemic Response, Senate Report Says

An examination by the Democratic staff of the Senate homeland security committee portrayed a government wholly unprepared for the arrival of the coronavirus.

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‘Ebola Could Have Wiped Us All’: Slow Lockdown Haunts Uganda

The authorities hesitated to impose restrictions in the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak because of residual trauma from the Covid lockdown. Ebola then spread to the capital, killing dozens of Ugandans.

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No. 2 Theranos Executive Is Sentenced to Nearly 13 Years for Fraud

Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up, was convicted of 12 counts of fraud in July.

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Lasik Patients Should Be Warned of Complications, FDA Draft Says

Draft recommendations by the agency describe dry eyes, visual disturbances and other side effects of the procedure. Surgeons say the benefits are being ignored.

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Global Partners May End Broad Covid Vaccination Effort in Developing Countries

The board of Gavi, the international vaccine agency, meets Wednesday to debate shutting down the program, known as Covax, amid swiftly waning demand for the shots.

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Juul Agrees to Settle Thousands of Vaping Lawsuits

The deal is the latest in the company’s efforts to resolve litigation over its marketing of products that some contend fueled the teenage vaping crisis.

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FDA Report Faults Agency’s Food Unit for Leaderless Dysfunction

Spurred by the infant formula crisis, a panel found that the agency shied away from tough decisions, sometimes fearing confrontations with industry over enforcement of critical public health issues.

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What to Know About Strep A Infections Among Children in the UK

Several children have died from strep A this season, health officials said on Tuesday. Here is a quick list of symptoms and other important information.

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I’m Having an Operation to Lose Weight. Do I Have to Tell People?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on navigating the personal boundaries around our physical health.

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Covid Care Has Entered a New Stage of Crisis for the Uninsured

As federal funding for the pandemic response dries up, Americans without health insurance risk being left footing the bill for coronavirus tests and treatments.

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8 Million Laundress Products Recalled Over Bacteria Risk

The luxury laundry brand recalled items sold between January 2021 and September 2022.

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Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors?

Nearly one million Americans have no immediate family members to provide assistance if needed. The number is expected to grow.

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U.S. Plans to End Mpox Emergency Declaration in Two Months

With few new cases, the plan not to renew the emergency past Jan. 31 is an acknowledgment that the disease previously known as monkeypox has mostly been suppressed.

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Alzheimer’s APOE4 Genetic Risk Targeted in Promising Trial

Preliminary results offer hope that gene therapy can protect people with a version of the brain disease driven by a particular gene variant.

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How Has the Rising Cost of Long-Term Health Care Affected You?

As inflation rises, assisted living and home health aides are becoming more expensive. We want to hear from people who are dealing with this type of financial stress.

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Dog Flu Is Back, Too

Canine influenza can spread quickly through shelters, kennels and day care facilities, although most dogs will recover on their own, experts said.

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As Officials Ease Restrictions, China Faces New Pandemic Risks

Huge swaths of the nation’s elderly remain vulnerable, scientists say, and a surge in deaths and hospitalizations may be inevitable.

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China Has an Extraordinary Covid-19 Dilemma

A true reopening, however unlikely, could lead to millions of deaths.

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Poem: (Intuitions. She)

Coral Bracho depicts the terror of Alzheimers — losing yourself within a formerly capable and operating mind and body.

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Elon Musk Hopes to Test a Brain Implant in Humans Next Year

The tech multibillionaire said his company, Neuralink, was seeking government approval to test his device in people, and predicted it could happen in six months. Others have been conducting similar tests for years, but no device has been marketed commercially.

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FDA Considering New Approach to Blood Donation by Gay and Bisexual Men

The agency may put in place a personalized risk assessment to replace the current prohibition on men who have had sex with men in the previous three months.

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Deaths From Substance Abuse Rose Sharply Among Older Americans in 2020

In the pandemic’s first year, death rates linked to alcohol and drugs climbed among seniors as lockdowns and isolation spread.

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When He Stood Up Quickly, He Sometimes Fainted. What Was It?

The attending physician, a doctor for 45 years, had never seen the obscure problem causing these symptoms.

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Alzheimer’s Drug May Benefit Some Patients, New Data Shows

The drug, lecanemab, made by Eisai and Biogen, also carried risks of brain swelling and bleeding and should be studied further, a report of the findings said.

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Michael Pertschuk, Antismoking and Auto Safety Crusader, Dies at 89

As an obscure but muscular congressional staffer and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, he helped usher into law a raft of consumer protections.

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NYC Will Hospitalize Mentally Ill People Involuntarily

Mayor Eric Adams directed the police and emergency medical workers to hospitalize people who appear to be severely mentally ill, even if they pose no threat to others.

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One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine?

Scientist have tested in animals a vaccine that may protect against 20 strains of influenza, helping to prevent another pandemic.

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Can This Man Stop Lying?

Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood.

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Organ Donations Rise Around Motorcycle Rallies

A new study suggests a link between the large gatherings and a slightly higher number of transplants after traffic crashes.

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As Gen X and Boomers Age, They Confront Living Alone

More older Americans are living by themselves than ever before. That shift presents issues on housing, health care and personal finance.

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10,500 Toddler Bottles and Cups Recalled Over Lead Poisoning Risk

Green Sprouts recalled the cups and bottles because the base can break off and expose a piece that contains lead.

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Happy Birthday, Omicron

One year after the variant’s discovery, virologists are still scrambling to keep up with Omicron’s rapid evolution.

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Flu and R.S.V. Increase Demand for Antibiotics and Antivirals

An intense early flu season, coupled with a pediatric rise in respiratory illnesses, has left families frantically searching for medicines that are in short supply.

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Can Sensor Technology Help Keep Office Workers Healthy?

The company OpenSensors uses small, inexpensive sensors to monitor air quality and other conditions in offices. The timing couldn’t be better.

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U.S. Officials Offer Hopeful Tone on Covid as Winter Nears

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said the administration was optimistic that “we’re not going to see a repeat of what we saw last year,” when the Omicron variant swept through the country.

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How I Got Through My Miscarriages

Reading Diane Noomin’s feminist comics allowed me to feel the full range of my own grief.

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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Barn? To Sign Up for the Scientific Study.

A farm sanctuary in New York is investigating the inner lives of cows, pigs and chickens — but only if they volunteer.

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In Women and Nonbinary People, Monkeypox Cases May Have Been Missed

Despite monkeypox fading from public attention, scientists are still learning how it spreads — including without sexual contact or any symptoms.

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With Anxiety On the Rise, Some Children Try ‘Exposure Therapy’

Exposure therapy contends that many children with anxiety would be helped by following an old and simple dictum: Face your fears.

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Which to Choose: Medicare or Medicare Advantage?

Open enrollment for Medicare plans ends Dec. 7. Here’s what you need to know about shopping for them.

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Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, Phoenix House Founder, Dies at 87

A psychiatrist, he was an early apostle for treating drug and alcohol addiction with group therapy in a residential setting.

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What if You Could Go to the Hospital … at Home?

Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.

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What if You Could Go to the Hospital … at Home?

Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.

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Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud

Ms. Holmes was convicted in January of four counts of wire fraud for deceiving investors with claims about her blood testing start-up Theranos.

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FDA Approves a Drug That Can Delay Type 1 Diabetes

The therapy will cost nearly $200,000. But it’s the first treatment in 100 years to alter the course of the disease, which usually begins in adolescence.

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The End of Covid Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’

Financial and bureaucratic barriers in the United States mean that the next generation of Covid vaccines may well be designed here, but used elsewhere.

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Elizabeth Holmes to be Sentenced in Fraud Trial

Ms. Holmes, founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is scheduled to learn her fate on Friday. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.

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Hemp-Fed Cows Get Buzzed, Study Finds, but Will Humans Who Drink Their Milk?

Hemp with high THC content given to Holsteins leached into their milk, according to a group of German scientists exploring the food chain for dairy production.

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Deforestation Brings Bat-Borne Virus Home to Roost

Habitat loss and food shortages have pushed bats into closer proximity to horses and humans, fueling Hendra virus spillover, a new study suggests.

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Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film

The documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” tells a complex story of personal trauma and protest. But first the collaborators needed to reach an agreement.

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People With ADHD Face Withdrawal as Adderall Shortage Continues

Without medication, patients are wondering what comes next.

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World Population Reaches 8 Billion, UN Says

The rapid population growth has been driven by the world’s poorest countries. More global challenges are ahead.

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Bringing Sexy Back — To Fight H.I.V.

Most safer sex campaigns focus on danger and disease. Acknowledging the importance of pleasure — and how to make safe sex good sex — could make them more effective.

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As the Pandemic Drags On, Americans Struggle for New Balance

As offices, restaurants and schools fill up, people are adjusting expectations and habits in another moment of deep uncertainty.

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New Covid Booster Strengthens Immune Response Against Subvariants, Moderna Says

A study suggested that the updated booster shot produced higher levels of neutralizing antibodies against BA.4 and BA.5 than the first booster, the company said.

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Puberty Blockers Can Help Transgender Youth. Is There a Cost?

Puberty blockers can ease transgender youths’ anguish and buy time to weigh options. But concerns are growing about long-term physical effects and other consequences.

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Fishing Regulator Rejects Lifting Ban on Female Crab Harvest

A commission acknowledged concerns about the threatened shorebirds that rely on crab eggs as a critical food source around the Delaware Bay.

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Dr. Lewis Kuller, a Father of Preventive Cardiology, Dies at 88

His clinical studies focused largely on how to reduce the risk factors of cardiovascular disease. He also established a link between menopause and heart disease.

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Reynolds Sues California Over Flavored Tobacco Ban

On Tuesday, the state’s voters overwhelmingly supported letting a two-year-old law take effect. The company’s lawsuit is viewed by anti-smoking advocates as a tactic that could keep menthol cigarettes on the market longer.

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Masks Cut Covid Spread in Schools, Study Finds

In a so-called natural experiment, two school districts in Boston maintained masking after mandates had been lifted in others, enabling a unique comparison.

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The Disease Took Zara, Then Sara. Could Ayla Be Saved?

Two sisters in one family died from a genetic disorder. Before a third child with the disease was born, doctors hatched a plan to spare her of its effects.

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Medication Treatment for Addiction Is Shorter for Black and Hispanic Patients, Study Finds

The analysis of 15 years of prescription data showed that the racial disparities are widening.

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Pulses to Their Brains and 2 Women’s Binge Eating Went Away

A small study demonstrated that deep brain stimulation, used for people with Parkinson’s disease, can limit an urge to overeat.

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Covid Patients Coming Off Ventilators Can Take Weeks to Regain Consciousness

A new paper suggests that the combination of the virus and anesthesia plunges the brain into a prolonged state of quiet — like a freshwater turtle in winter.

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Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes

The issue is whether a federal law that seeks to place Native American foster children in Native American homes is constitutional. The case could turn on whether the justices see tribes as racial groups or sovereign nations.

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Big Tobacco Heralds a Healthier World While Fighting Its Arrival

The industry continues to back smoking protections, like this November’s ballot initiative in California that would overturn a law banning tobacco flavors.

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Samuel L. Katz, a Developer of the Measles Vaccine, Dies at 94

In 1956, when he began working with a small group in a Boston laboratory, measles was a major threat. Seven years later, lifesaving immunizations began.

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Medicare Advantage or Just Medicare?

It’s annual enrollment season once again. Here’s a look at the pros and cons of the two approaches to health insurance.

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Florida Restricts Doctors From Providing Gender Treatments to Minors

The state’s medical board, whose members are appointed by the governor, has barred doctors from prescribing gender care to new adolescent patients.

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Study Shows New Covid Booster Improves Protection for Older People, Pfizer Says

Federal officials are hoping that the encouraging results will spur more Americans to get an updated booster before a feared surge in coronavirus cases this winter.

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Voters Have Expanded Medicaid in 6 States. Is South Dakota Next?

Ten years after the Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to expand Medicaid, the politics are changing in states like South Dakota, where rural hospitals and nursing homes are struggling.

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Private Medicare Plans Misled Customers Into Signing Up, Senate Report Says

The report by Senate Democrats points to widespread misbehavior by the plans and the marketing firms they hire.

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Indian Drugs, Sold Worldwide, Sometimes Deadly

Deaths from contaminated cough syrups in Gambia have brought attention to loose regulations in India and a lack of testing capacity in poor importing nations.

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Doctors Warn FDA of Risks Posed by Flawed Oxygen Devices

Especially for Black patients, inaccurate readings have imperiled care and may have contributed to deaths during the pandemic, experts told an advisory panel.

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US Children’s Hospitals Are Overwhelmed by RSV

A drastic and unusually early spike in the respiratory infection is swamping pediatric units across the United States, causing long waits for treatment and worries about winter.

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Bill Outlawing Online Suicide Assistance Would Open Sites to Liability

Bipartisan legislation in the House targets not only the online activity of individual users but also the website operators hosting it.

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The Man Beat Cancer Years Ago. Why Was There a Mass in His Lung?

Could the disease be back?

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A Surge of Overseas Abortion Pills Blunted the Effects of State Abortion Bans

New data suggests that abortion has declined about 2 percent in the U.S. since the end of Roe, accounting for people who traveled across state lines or ordered pills online.

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Alcohol Deaths Claim Lives of Working-Age Americans

A C.D.C. study estimates that, over five years, one in eight deaths of people ages 20 to 64 occurred because of alcohol-related injuries or illness.

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How Brains Send a Signal That It’s Time to Vomit

In a study of mice, researchers worked out a neural pathway that could help researchers alleviate nausea symptoms from chemotherapy drugs.

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Scientists Are Gaining On RSV, a Persistent Threat to Children

Vaccines and treatments are in trials, but the virus remains a leading killer of infants worldwide.

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The Fading Art of Preserving the Dead

A dwindling group of professionals is tasked with navigating the often fraught passage from life to death.

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Cholera Outbreaks Surge Worldwide, Following Floods, Droughts and Wars

A record number of outbreaks has drained the cholera vaccine supply, leading the W.H.O. to ration emergency vaccinations.

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Legal Abortions Fell Around 6 Percent in Two Months After End of Roe

New data shows that the number of abortions fell by more than 10,000.

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Pandemic Learning Loss Is Not an Emergency

In a vacuum, test score declines look like bad news. But none of this happened in a vacuum.

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Young People on TikTok Are Self-Diagnosing

While social media can help people feel less alone, using it to evaluate symptoms has several downsides.

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Pandemic Learning Loss Is Not an Emergency

In a vacuum, test score declines look like bad news. But none of this happened in a vacuum.

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OB-GYN Residency Programs Face Tough Choice on Abortion Training

Many residency programs for obstetricians and gynecologists are in a risky position, caught between state abortion bans and accreditation requirements.

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Fetterman’s Debate Showing Raises Democratic Anxieties in Senate Battle

The Democratic nominee’s performance in Pennsylvania thrust questions of health to the center of a pivotal Senate race, adding uncertainty to the contest and worrying some in his party.

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WHO Lists Top Fungi Health Threats

The pathogens cause infections that kill millions of people each year and often go undiagnosed. Even when identified, a growing number of infections is resistant to the current crop of drugs.

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Most Hospitalized Monkeypox Patients in the U.S. Were H.I.V.-Positive

“Monkeypox and H.I.V. have collided,” a C.D.C. researcher said.

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What to Know About the Pine-Sol Recall

Clorox is voluntarily recalling tens of millions of bottles of scented Pine-Sol cleaning products that may be contaminated with bacteria.

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Gene Treatment for Rare Epilepsy Causes Brain Side Effect in 2 Children

The side effect, a buildup of fluid in the brain, led to the death of one of the children and presents a grave setback for a class of personalized medicine.

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Some Breast Cancer Patients Could Skip Surgery, Study Suggests

In a small trial, chemotherapy alone was sufficient to treat women with certain kinds of tumors.

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Biden Receives Updated Covid Booster and Urges Americans to Follow Suit

With a possible winter surge on the horizon, the president tried to draw attention to the retooled shots, which Americans have been slow to receive so far.

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Uterine Cancer: What to Know About Symptoms and Treatment

A new study raised alarms about chemical hair straighteners being linked to the disease, but doctors say there are telltale symptoms to watch for.

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Unilever Recalls Dry Shampoo Products in U.S. and Canada

More than a dozen aerosol dry shampoo products from brands like Dove and Suave may have elevated levels of benzene, a carcinogen, the company said.

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With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits

Cash rich start-ups are filing scores of patent claims on hallucinogens like magic mushrooms. Researchers and patient advocates worry high prices will make the therapies unaffordable.

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The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir

In “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” the actor gets serious about sobriety, mortality, colostomy bags and pickleball.

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A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise

Flu cases are higher than usual for this time of year and are expected to soar in the coming weeks. A third virus, R.S.V., is straining pediatric hospitals in some states.

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Did the Pandemic Change Your Personality? Possibly.

For more than two years, Covid disrupted social rituals and rites of passage. Now a recent study suggests we have become less extroverted, creative, agreeable and conscientious. The declines in some traits were sharper among young people.

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NLCS: How the Phillies Decided to Travel Home Early

Despite a recommendation to stay the night in San Diego on Wednesday, Philadelphia’s road-weary players elected to get home as quickly as possible. So far, so good.

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Beryl Benacerraf, 73, Dies; Pioneered the Use of Prenatal Ultrasound

A radiologist with an uncanny visual sense, she revolutionized the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities like Down syndrome.

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A Vermont Town’s Water Official Resigns Amid Fluoridation Confusion

Kendall Chamberlin, the town’s water superintendent for over 30 years, said he had been lowering fluoride levels well below state guidelines for more than a decade.

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Cough Syrup: What We Know About Tainted Medicine from India

Tainted syrup from India may be connected to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia, officials said. Indonesia banned cough syrup sales, though the link there is unclear.

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A New Procedure Could Expand Reproductive Choices for Transgender Women

Retrieving viable sperm from men with low fertility and from people who have used estrogen therapy for years has been a challenge, doctors say. A new, less invasive technique has promise.

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Biden Administration to Offer Plan to Get Addiction-Fighting Medicine to Pregnant Women

Pregnant women are more likely to die of a drug overdose than the average woman of childbearing age, but less likely to be accepted for medication-based treatment.

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How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations

Scientists have discovered several genetic variants that protect Europeans from the bubonic plague — but also increase the risk of immune disorders.

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These Doctors Admit They Don’t Want Patients With Disabilities

When granted anonymity in focus groups, physicians let their guards down and shared opinions consistent with experiences of many people with disabilities.

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Britain Scales Back Foreign Aid, Threatening Progress in Global Health

The nation is often the second-largest donor to groups working in poor countries to prevent and treat infectious diseases, and to provide reproductive health services to women.

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‘You Don’t Look Anorexic’

New research shows that our assumptions about eating disorders are often wrong — and that many larger-bodied people are starving themselves.

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Sadder but Wiser? Maybe Not.

A landmark 1979 study found that depressed people had a more realistic view of their influence over events. New research calls that into question.

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Hair Straighteners May Pose a Small Risk for Uterine Cancer, Study Finds

A national study suggests a link to this particular cancer among women who reported frequent use of the chemical products.

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Elizabeth Holmes Case Takes On More Drama Ahead of Sentencing

The founder of Theranos, the failed blood testing start-up, asked for a new trial after a surprise visit from a key witness to her house.

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Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?

The organ is “completely ignored by pretty much everyone,” medical experts say, and that omission can be devastating to women’s sexual health.

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As White House Presses for Booster Shots, Americans Are Slow to Get Them

Only about 15 million doses of the new shots have been administered so far, and many Americans appear to be unaware of or simply uninterested in them.

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Overlooked No More: Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, Creators of a Personality Test

Mother and daughter, they developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which has helped millions of people discover if they are introverts or extroverts or thinkers or feelers.

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Strength Training Beginners Guide: How to Make the Workout a Habit

For real this time.

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She Suffered From Headaches and Fatigue. Were Concussions to Blame?

She was a young athlete who suffered frequent head injuries. Her family assumed that was the cause of her strange symptoms — then she had a seizure.

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F.D.A. Confirms Widespread Shortages of Adderall

The agency cited Teva’s continuing supply problems as well as those of other drug makers struggling to fill the gap.

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‘Kind of Awkward’: Doctors Find Themselves on a First-Name Basis

While many physicians may avoid discussing the subject, a study showed that who gets addressed with the honorific “Dr.” may depend on gender, degree and specialty.

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Nearly Half of Covid Patients Haven’t Fully Recovered Months Later, Study Finds

The findings strengthened calls from scientists for more expansive care options for long Covid patients.

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FDA Authorizes Updated Covid Booster Shots For Kids 5 to 11

Regulators authorized the shots for older age groups in late August, but much of the general population appears either unaware or uninterested in them.

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Human Brain Cells Grow in Rats, and Feel What the Rats Feel

Human brain “organoids” wired themselves into rats’ nervous systems, influencing the animals’ sensations and behaviors.

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As Overdoses Soar, Rhode Island Embraces Drug Consumption Sites

It is the first state to legalize supervised drug consumption sites, which some addiction experts believe will help lower record overdose rates.

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With Fall Migration, Bird Flu Flies Back Into Town

Zoos, bird rescue groups and other animal facilities are grappling with a “radically different” outbreak of avian influenza.

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As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?

Adult beds are more lucrative than children’s beds. So as institutions look to boost profit margins, pediatrics are often among the first services to be cut.

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‘A New Frontier’ for Hearing Aids

Over-the-counter hearing aids are coming at long last. But lower prices and greater accessibility may take time to materialize.

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After Giving Up on Cancer Vaccines, Doctors Start to Find Hope

Encouraging data from preliminary studies are making some doctors feel optimistic about developing immunizations against pancreatic, colon and breast cancers.

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Animal Rights Activists Await Verdict in Smithfield Piglet Case

The Utah trial has highlighted what the defendants argue is a lack of transparency for the treatment of animals at large corporate farms.

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How Insurers Exploited Medicare Advantage for Billions: ‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’

By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.

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Tell us about your experience with New York hospitals.

Do you work in a New York hospital? Are you an ambulance worker? Please help us report our next story.

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An Abortion Ban With Unexpected Consequences for Older Mothers

Older women are more likely to carry fetuses with genetic disorders that often can’t be detected until 15 weeks of pregnancy, beyond the limit set in a Senate proposal.

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A Canadian Family Is Seeing the World Before Their Children’s Vision Falters

A Canadian family is on a yearlong journey across Asia and Africa because three of their four children have an eye condition that causes blindness.

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Gun-Related Suicides and Killings Continued to Rise in 2021, C.D.C. Reports

The increases in homicides were particularly stark among Black and Hispanic men, while suicides involving firearms rose among all adults.

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Teenagers Keep Vaping Despite Crackdowns on E-Cigarettes

While use among youths has fallen since the peaks of 2018-19, resumption of in-school classes this year shows students still have access to flavored, disposable vapes.

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U.S. Health Officials Urge Vigilance as Ebola Spreads in Uganda

There are no cases in the United States, but the C.D.C. wants doctors to be on the alert for patients with telltale symptoms.

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Barnard College Plans to Offer Abortion Pills on Campus

It is one of many colleges and universities deliberating over how to respond to the fall of Roe v. Wade.

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A Father Chose to End His Life at 92. His Daughter Hit Record.

To cope with the impending loss of the family patriarch, who decided on medically assisted suicide, Ondi Timoner did what she knows best: She made a movie.

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Medical Care Alone Won’t Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say

Now experts are calling for walkable communities, improved housing, and access to health care and better food, particularly in minority communities.

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Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care

Providence began reaching out to more than 700 patients after The Times contacted the hospital system about its billing and debt-collection practices.

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At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated?

Two new vaccines may finally turn back an ancient plague. But in unexpected ways, their arrival also complicates the path to ending the disease.

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For Autistic Mothers, Breastfeeding Is Complicated

Mothers with autism, who are less likely than others to breastfeed, have been hit particularly hard by the baby formula shortage.

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Your Medical Test Results Are Available. But Do You Want to View Them?

The 21st Century Cures Act gave patients easy access to their health information. Now, some diagnoses delivered without context are causing high anxiety.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Be Awarded Today

It will be the first Nobel Prize awarded this year, with more announcements being made over the coming week.

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Uganda Races to Contain a Deadly Ebola Outbreak

The outbreak was caused by the Sudan strain of the virus, which has no approved vaccine or drug treatment. Scientists are now rushing to begin clinical trials in the coming weeks.

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Fentanyl Test Strips Highlight Rift in Nation’s Struggle to Combat Drug Deaths

Proponents say the ability to check drugs for the presence of lethal fentanyl may save lives. But critics say the strips enable drug use.

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Dr. Audrey Evans, Cancer Specialist Who Gave Families a Home, Dies at 97

She was a prominent figure in the field of childhood cancer when, in 1974, she helped create the first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.

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Price of New A.L.S. Treatment Will Be $158,000 Per Year, Maker Says

The list price of the therapy, Relyvrio, is much higher than an economic research group recommends, but the company says most patients will pay very little themselves.

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Half of Adults Have Heard Little or Nothing About New Covid Boosters, Survey Finds

The latest shots, which target Omicron and its subvariants, could offer protection against a winter surge in cases. But many people are unsure if they’re eligible.

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Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide?

A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger — and intervene.

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Leonard Cole, Who Detailed Secret Army Germ Tests, Dies at 89

A dentist with a parallel career as a political scientist, he drew attention to a program that made millions of Americans unwitting guinea pigs.

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FDA Approves ALS Treatment Despite Questions About Effectiveness

The drug is safe, and one trial found it may extend survival and slow paralysis in functions like muscle control and speaking. A larger trial will be completed in 2024.

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FDA Approves ALS Treatment Despite Questions About Effectiveness

The drug is safe, and one trial found it may extend survival and slow paralysis in functions like muscle control and speaking. A larger trial will be completed in 2024.

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A Devious Cellular Trick Cancers Can Use to Escape Your Immune System

A researcher discovered that giant cells under a microscope were actually cancer cells hiding inside other cancer cells.

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Her Face Started Drooping. What Was Wrong?

And if this was Bell’s palsy, why wasn’t there improvement after a full year?

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CDC Says Early Data Offers Positive Signs About Monkeypox Vaccine

Officials said people who received a single dose of the vaccine were substantially less likely to get infected than those who did not, but the study came with major limitations.

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Lasker Award Honors Development of Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Test

The prestigious medical prizes also recognized the creator of a global Covid dashboard and discoveries of proteins and cell bindings to fight disease.

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Can a Telehealth Start-Up Add a Layer of Support to Pregnancy Care?

The goal of Poppy Seed Health is to connect underserved pregnant women to nurses, midwives and doulas who can offer on-demand assistance.

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Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Cognitive Decline in Key Study

Biogen and Eisai reported the finding from a large late-stage clinical trial of lecanemab, a drug they are developing.

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A New Shot Guards Against H.I.V., but Access for Africans Is Uncertain

An injection every two months rather than a daily pill could shield many more women from the virus, but it is unavailable in places that need it most.

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How LeVar Burton (and Others) Helped Us Get Through the Pandemic

Notable pop culture figures, including the actor LeVar Burton and the K-pop phenomenon BTS, helped people get through Covid — from a distance.

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Monkeypox Appears to Recede, but Risks and Uncertainties Linger

Scientists do not yet know how well the vaccine and the drug used to treat the infection are working. Two new trials will provide answers.

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More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’

Small studies suggest that breast removal surgery improves transgender teenagers’ well-being, but data is sparse. Some state leaders oppose such procedures for minors.

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They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay.

With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.

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How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.

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Arbitration Has Come to Senior Living. You Don’t Have to Sign Up.

In the blizzard of paperwork needed to get into a nursing home or assisted living, some residents unwittingly surrender the right to a day in court.

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More Than 700 Children Have Died in a Measles Outbreak in Zimbabwe

It is driven by a decline in child immunization during the pandemic and the influence of an anti-vaccination evangelical church.

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‘Sobering’ Study Shows Challenges of Egg Freezing

Data from a fertility center showed many women did not get pregnant because of the age at which they froze their eggs and because they did not preserve enough of them.

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Officials Hopeful That Monkeypox Can Be Eliminated in the U.S.

Cases are declining nationally, and the deputy coordinator of the White House monkeypox response team said he expected that, over time, they would drop to a trickle.

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Officials Express Optimism That Monkeypox Can Be Eliminated in the U.S.

Cases are declining nationally, and the deputy coordinator of the White House monkeypox response team said he expected that, over time, they would drop to a trickle.

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Why Omicron Might Stick Around

Omicron, the 13th named variant of the coronavirus, seems to have a remarkable capacity to evolve new tricks.

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Modern Love Podcast: How to Feel Yourself

At 83, and legally blind, a woman needs help with one of her favorite pastimes: visiting the sex shop.

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F.D.A. Warning on NyQuil Chicken Alerts Many to Existence of NyQuil Chicken

Cooking poultry in cold medicine is a bad, dangerous idea that few people seemed to be aware of until the government warning attracted media coverage.

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Health Panel Recommends Anxiety Screening for All Adults Under 65

The guidance comes as Americans are coping with illness, isolation and loss from the pandemic, as well as other stressors like inflation and rising crime.

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Lack of Data Still Blunts US Response to Outbreaks

Major data gaps, the result of decades of underinvestment in public health, have undercut the government response to the coronavirus and now to monkeypox.

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Biden Says the Pandemic Is Over. But at Least 400 People Are Dying Daily.

The president made the remark in an interview that aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night. By Monday, the backlash was in full swing.

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A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke.

Physicians suffer one of the highest burnout rates among professionals. Dr. Kimberly Becher, one of two family practitioners in Clay County, West Virginia, learned the hard way.

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New Boosters Test Covid-Weary Nation.Do Americans Care?

The new vaccine campaign is one of the country’s last remaining strategies, as masks have fallen away and quarantines have diminished. So far, the rollout is methodical but muted.

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How Health Care Workers Got Me Through the Pandemic

From home aides to doctors, people in health care fields offered more than just medical advice for people getting through the pandemic. They offered comfort.

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Kevin M. Cahill, 86, Dies; Tropical Disease Expert With a Political Bent

He treated celebrities, advised a governor and saved an Irish historical society. But he died under a cloud of sexual assault allegations.

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How to Change Minds? A Study Makes the Case for Talking It Out.

Researchers found that meaty conversations among several people can align beliefs and brain patterns — so long as the group is free of blowhards.

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FDA’s Drug Industry Fees Fuel Concerns Over Influence

The pharmaceutical industry finances about 75 percent of the agency’s drug division, through a controversial program that Congress must reauthorize by the end of this month.

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Fetterman Says Stroke Problems Have Not Slowed Down a ‘Normal’ Campaign

In one of his most extensive interviews since having a stroke, John Fetterman said he was fully capable of handling a campaign that may decide who controls the U.S. Senate.

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What a High-Risk Pregnancy Looks Like After Dobbs

The photographer Stephanie Sinclair captured the newly unsettled world inside the Cleveland Clinic, where Ohio’s abortion laws have drastically changed maternal care.

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Susan L. Solomon, Crusader for Stem Cell Research, Dies at 71

Vexed by lags in producing cures for diabetes and cancer, she helped raise $400 million to start a foundation that has made breakthroughs in treating major diseases.

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‘The Future of Hospitals’: Flexible Space for the Next Pandemic

After struggling to respond to a crushing Covid caseload, many hospitals are remodeling so that when the next crisis comes, they’ll be better able to meet it.

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Biden Picks Biotech Executive to Lead New Biomedical Research Agency

President Biden has selected Dr. Renee Wegrzyn to lead the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which is aimed at driving biomedical innovation.

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Store Shelves Are No Longer Bare, but Baby Formula Remains in Short Supply

While the situation has improved since mid-July, many families are still scrambling to find popular brands that remain out of stock.

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Monkeypox Shots, Treatments and Tests Are Unavailable in Much of the World

High-income countries snapped up vaccines when the disease hit them, leaving none for countries that have battled the virus for years, in an echo of the Covid response.

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Rise in Deaths Spurs Effort to Raise Alcohol Taxes

Alcohol taxes have been stagnant for years. But after the pandemic sent alcohol-related deaths soaring, activists in Oregon said higher taxes could save lives.

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Marc Lewitinn, 76, Covid Patient, Dies After 850 Days on a Ventilator

While no definitive statistics exist, doctors say he was likely the longest-surviving intubated Covid patient.

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Sheila Tobias, Who Defined ‘Math Anxiety,’ Dies at 86

Feeling jittery about math — and altogether avoiding it — “is a serious handicap” that often affected women, she wrote in Ms. magazine in 1976, followed by a book on the subject.

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Los Angeles County Investigates Death of Person With Monkeypox

Officials said they were conducting an autopsy to see if a monkeypox infection contributed to the death of a Los Angeles County resident.

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Breast Implants May Be Linked to Additional Cancers, F.D.A. Warns

On rare occasions, new cancers have been found in women with both textured and smooth implants, filled with saline or silicone, federal health officials said.

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FDA Approves Daxxify, a New Anti-Wrinkle Drug

The treatment lasts for six months in half of its users, company studies showed, representing the first major advance in facial injections in decades.

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Bird Flu Found in Dolphin in Florida and Porpoise in Sweden

The findings represent the first time a highly pathogenic form of the virus, which has devastated bird populations this year, has been detected in cetaceans.

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A ‘Period Dignity Officer’ Seemed Like a Good Idea. Until a Man Was Named.

The job in the Scottish region of Tayside was eliminated after a groundswell of anger that a man would be overseeing, or ‘mansplaining,’ menstruation policy.

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Juul Settles Multi-State Youth Vaping Inquiry for $438.5 Million

The tentative deal would close a yearslong investigation by nearly three dozen states into the company’s marketing and sales practices.

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How Abbott Kept Sick Babies From Becoming a Scandal

Abbott’s lawyers at Jones Day negotiated secret settlements and used scorched earth tactics with families whose infants fell ill after consuming powdered formula.

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The Quiet Cost of Family Caregiving

Many employees reduce their hours or stop working to help ailing family members. But it may be years before they fully return to the work force, studies indicate.

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Post-Roe Decision, Abortion Pill Providers Work to Broaden Access

These new efforts, which test the legal boundaries, have sprung up since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and many states restricted abortion.

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California Biotech Executive Is Guilty in $77 Million Blood-Testing Scheme

Arrayit Corporation claimed to have invented a technology to test for any disease using a drop of blood, including Covid-19 and cancer.

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Updated Booster Shots Expected Within Days as C.D.C. Panel Signs Off

The debut of Omicron-specific vaccines raises a thorny question: How long should you wait between shots?

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A Baby’s Blood Sodium Levels Were Dangerously High. What Was the Cause?

The 5-month-old boy hadn’t gained any weight in three months. Why was he ‘failing to thrive’?

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In a Japanese Nursing Home, Some Workers Are Babies

They get paid in formula and diapers, and their work hours are flexible, in a program that connects people across generations and brightens lives.

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How the Pandemic Shortened Life Expectancy in Indigenous Communities

New federal data outline the scale of suffering among Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

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When Fetterman Wasn’t Ready to Debate After a Stroke, Dr. Oz Pounced

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, has taunted his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, about his recovery.

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F.D.A. Authorizes Updated Covid Booster Shots, Targeting Omicron Subvariants

The agency cleared two options targeting subvariants that are currently dominant, hoping to curtail a fall or winter surge.

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US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.

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Paxlovid Cuts Covid Deaths Among Older People, Israeli Study Finds

Among patients under 65, however, the drug made little difference in hospitalization or death rates.

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California Approves Bill to Punish Doctors Who Spread False Information

Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.

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Carl Croneberg, Explorer of Deaf Culture, Dies at 92

He helped write the first comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language and later identified the deaf as a part of society worth examining.

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Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation

Entrepreneurs are aiming to put A.I.-powered pet translation tools into our pockets.

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Fall Vaccination Campaign Will Bring New Shots, Worse Access

Updated Covid vaccines, expected soon after Labor Day, were designed to thwart Omicron variants. But money to distribute them has dried up.

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As Covid Guidance Evolves, So Does a Virus Briefing

Jonathan Wolfe, the reporter behind the Coronavirus Briefing, now the Virus Briefing, discusses the newsletter’s shift in focus.

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This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone.

Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.

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‘The Best Tool We Have’ for Self-Harming and Suicidal Teens

Studies indicate that dialectical behavior therapy offers greater benefits than more generalized therapy. But treatment is intensive, and expensive.

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Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights

As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.

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This Is Not the Monkeypox That Doctors Thought They Knew

The patients turning up at clinics often have a range of symptoms that are not typical of the infection. Some of the infected seem to have no symptoms at all.

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A Child Has Monkeypox in New York City, Officials Say

Federal officials are “cautiously optimistic” as monkeypox cases decline, even as health officials announced the first pediatric case in New York City.

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How to Get Heart Patients to Take Their Pills? Give Them Just One.

Patients given a combination “polypill” after a heart attack were more likely to stick to their regimens, researchers reported.

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Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech Over Covid Vaccine

The lawsuit, filed Friday, alleges that the companies’ Covid vaccine violated Moderna’s mRNA patents.

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Psilocybin Therapy Sharply Reduces Excessive Drinking, Small Study Shows

Researchers said the results offered promise to the millions of Americans with alcohol use disorder.

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Will Your Dog Get Dementia? A Large New Study Offers Clues.

The risk of canine cognitive dysfunction, a.k.a. “doggy dementia,” is far greater in dogs who don’t get enough exercise, researchers found. Their risk factors echo some in humans, whose homes they share.

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Biden Administration Plans for Booster Shot Campaign in September

A top F.D.A. regulator cited compelling data for redesigned coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

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Use of Marijuana and Psychedelics Is Soaring Among Young Adults, Study Finds

The annual U.S. survey of substance use captures the growing mainstream acceptance of cannabis and hallucinogenic compounds.

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Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them

That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common.

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Why Should Monkeypox Be Renamed?

Experts say the term evokes racist stereotypes, reinforces offensive tropes about Africa and abets stigmatization that can prevent people from seeking care.

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Four Decades of Dr. Fauci

Anthony Fauci did not set out to become a political lightning rod. But, as Sheryl Gay Stolberg explains, he couldn’t escape becoming a polarizing figure in Donald Trump’s Washington.

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Fauci Says He Will Step Down in December to Pursue His ‘Next Chapter’

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who has advised seven presidents and spent more than half a century at the National Institutes of Health, will leave government service by the end of the year.

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A Teen’s Journey Into the Internet’s Darkness and Back Again

As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.

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Pickleball, Sport of the Future Injury?

It’s all fun and games till you strain your Achilles’ tendon, herniate a disc or do a face-plant in the Kitchen.

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How Pharmacy Work Stopped Being So Great

Two years of economic recovery brought strong gains to workers at the top and the bottom, but headwinds for those in between. Consider the pharmacist.

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Lettuce on Wendy’s Sandwiches Potentially Linked to E. Coli Outbreak

Federal health officials said that while 37 people had been sickened and 10 hospitalized, it was safe to eat at the fast-food chain and to buy romaine lettuce.

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Ann McGuiness, Major Fund-Raiser for Women’s Health, Dies at 65

At Planned Parenthood and other organizations, she worked behind the scenes for reproductive rights and related causes.

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Monkeypox Vaccine Plan Prods Cities and States to Adopt New Dosing Regimen

The Biden administration will distribute monkeypox vaccine to jurisdictions that adopt a new protocol using one-fifth the regular dose. Critics called the plan “unscientific.”

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Racial Disparities Have Marked the Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout

New York City has released new data showing that Black men have received far fewer monkeypox vaccines than their share of the at-risk population.

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Facebook and Instagram Remove Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Nonprofit for Misinformation

Facebook said that Children’s Health Defense, a group led by Mr. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, had “repeatedly” violated its guidelines by spreading medical misinformation.

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Polio Was Almost Eradicated. This Year It Staged a Comeback.

Before its discovery in New York’s wastewater, the virus made a series of ominous appearances around the world.

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An Old Medicine Grows New Hair for Pennies a Day, Doctors Say

Dermatologists who specialize in hair loss say that the key ingredient in a topical treatment worked even better when taken orally at a low dose.

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Forever Chemicals No More? PFAS Are Destroyed With New Technique

The harmful molecules are everywhere, but chemists have made progress in developing a method to break them down.

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New Method Improves Speed and Cost of Birth Defect Testing

If the technique is confirmed, women who have had miscarriages or those undergoing prenatal screening may no longer need to rely on centralized testing labs for results.

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CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Must Pay $650.5 Million in Ohio Opioids Case

A federal judge ordered the big pharmacy chains to bear partial responsibility for the deadly drug crisis.

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How Chewing Shaped Human Evolution

An experiment revealed that chomping on slightly tougher material requires markedly more energy. Spending less time on mastication may go hand in hand with human evolution.

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C.D.C. Investigates ‘Fast-Moving’ E. coli Outbreak

The agency said that no food had been identified yet as the source of the outbreak, which has sickened 14 people in Ohio and 15 in Michigan.

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Raymond Damadian, Creator of the First M.R.I. Scanner, Dies at 86

Incensed when two other men won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, he took out a newspaper ad that called his exclusion a “shameful wrong that must be righted.”

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Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization

Among other flaws, the public guidance during the coronavirus pandemic was “confusing and overwhelming,” the agency said.

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Was I Vaccinated Against Polio? Young Adults Wonder.

Did you text Mom recently asking if you had been vaccinated against polio? So did we.

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Polio May Have Been Spreading in New York Since April

A new study from the C.D.C. provides more details about a polio case detected in New York last month, and suggests the virus has been spreading elsewhere for a year.

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Why a Century-Old Vaccine Could Be the Next Weapon Against Viruses

The B.C.G. tuberculosis vaccine may protect against Covid-19 and other infections by broadly bolstering the immune system.

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F.D.A. Clears Path for Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

The agency issued a final rule that took years to complete and opens the door to cheaper, more accessible devices without a prescription or medical exam.

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Marshall Islands, Nearly Covid-Free, Confronts an Outbreak

It was one of the last places on the planet to see its first Covid-19 cases. Now the virus is spreading rapidly.

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The Forgotten Virus: Zika Families and Researchers Struggle for Support

Some babies born with devastating birth defects from the mosquito-borne illness are 7 now, but Covid turned the world’s attention away.

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What to Know About Polio: Vaccines, Symptoms and How It Spreads

A recent case in a New York suburb has reignited concerns over the disease.

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U.K. Approves Covid Booster Vaccine That Targets Two Variants

The vaccine, which has been approved for adults, generated a strong immune response against both the original virus and the Omicron variant.

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Shark or Orca: Which Should You Fear More?

Swimmers often worry about attacks by certain marine predators. But beware the bite of a more common animal.

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‘Frustration and Stress’: State Officials Fault Rollout of Monkeypox Vaccine

Federal officials are not relying on an established system to distribute the vaccine, slowing immunizations and burdening local health departments, critics say.

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Nutrition Drinks Including Varieties of Oatly and Glucerna Are Recalled

The recall of nearly 90 Lyons Magnus products over concern for microbial contamination came after “continued collaboration and consultation” with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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Polio Has Been Detected in New York City Wastewater, Officials Say

The detection of the virus in sewage suggests it is circulating in the city, Health Department officials said.

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What the New C.D.C. Guidelines Mean for You

The new recommendations put the onus on individuals to protect themselves. Here’s how to navigate them.

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Hospital and Drugmaker Move to Build Vast Database of New Yorkers’ DNA

Patients will be asked if their genetic sequence can be added to a database — shared with a pharmaceutical company — in a quest to cure a multitude of diseases.

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C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus is ‘Here to Stay’

The new guidelines eliminate quarantines and put less emphasis on social distancing, routine surveillance testing and contact tracing.

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Samples of Popular Diabetes Drug Contain Potential Carcinogen, F.D.A. Says

Testing found nitrosamine contamination in some samples of Januvia, but regulators will allow Merck to continue selling the drug for now.

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Sharing Monkeypox Sores on Social Media

Men and women with monkeypox share their stories on social media, to fight stigma and demand more action.

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Sharing Monkeypox Sores on Social Media

Men and women with monkeypox share their stories on social media, to fight stigma and demand more action.

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Don’t Blame Monkeys for Monkeypox, W.HO. Says After Attacks

The outbreak is centered on humans, not animals, health officials said, after a report that some monkeys were harmed in São Paulo, Brazil, out of fear of transmission, according to local authorities.

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Biden Signs Bill to Help Veterans Exposed to Toxic Burn Pits

President Biden, who has long advocated the expanded benefits, has speculated that his son Beau developed brain cancer because of exposure to burn pits when he served in Iraq.

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Daniella Topol of Rattlestick Theater’s New Calling: Nursing

The artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is making an unusual career change after preparing the company for a major renovation.

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How We Mourn Covid’s Victims

In Britain, artists lit a structure aflame. At the Jersey Shore, names were carved on shells and rocks. With more than six million dead, memorials have evolved along the way.

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The Long, Long Wait for a Diabetes Cure

A documentary captures the desperation and frustration of Type 1 diabetes patients in a clinical trial.

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U.S. Moves to Stretch Out Monkeypox Vaccine Supply

The approach would involve injecting one-fifth of the current dose into the skin instead of a full dose into underlying fat.

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Embarrassing, Uncomfortable and Risky: What Flying Is Like for Passengers Who Use Wheelchairs

To better understand the obstacles faced by wheelchair users, The Times sent a reporter and a photographer to document one man’s plane trip. Here’s what they saw.

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Some Women Turn to Self-Managed Abortion as Access Recedes

Information and medications needed to end a pregnancy are increasingly available outside the health care system.

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Officials Wrestle With Whether to Allow New Monkeypox Vaccination Strategy

A new way of injecting monkeypox vaccine could stretch the nation’s supply of shots, but some experts argue that the approach has not been sufficiently studied.

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There’s Just One Drug to Treat Monkeypox. Good Luck Getting It.

Doctors who want to prescribe tecovirimat, or Tpoxx, must navigate a gantlet of bureaucratic hurdles that experts say could be quickly lifted.

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Democrats’ Long-Sought Plan for Lowering Drug Costs Is at Hand

Empowering Medicare to negotiate prices directly with drug makers has been a Democratic goal for 30 years, one the pharmaceutical industry has fought ferociously.

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Leon E. Rosenberg, Geneticist Who Wrote of His Depression, Dies at 89

After years of pioneering research into inherited disorders, mostly in children, he spoke openly about his struggle with mental illness.

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Why Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage May Threaten the Immunocompromised

People with H.I.V. and other immune-system problems may need the full two-dose regimen, researchers say. But the shots, particularly second doses, are hard to come by.

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The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos

A team of biologists and mathematicians studied hours of video to learn how insects take shape in the egg. The secret is geometry.

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As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Plans to Declare a Health Emergency

The designation will free up emergency funds and lift some bureaucratic hurdles, but many experts fear containment may no longer be possible.

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Her Lungs Mysteriously Shut Down. How Could This Have Happened?

A high school athlete got desperately sick and needed life support. Years later, she helped discover the cause of her rare illness.

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U.S. Could Have Had Many More Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine This Year

The Department of Health and Human Services delayed asking the manufacturer to process the bulk vaccine the government already owned into vials.

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A ‘Reversible’ Form of Death? Scientists Revive Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs.

Researchers who previously revived some brain cells in dead pigs succeeded in repeating the process in more organs.

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Biden to Issue Second Executive Order on Abortion

The order is short on specifics, directing federal officials to consider helping those traveling out of state for abortions.

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Biden Names White House Coordinator for Monkeypox

The appointment of Robert Fenton, a veteran emergency response official, comes as New York, California and Illinois declare states of emergency.

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Is Bio-Designed Collagen the Next Step in Animal Protein Replacement?

One company believes the possibilities go beyond vegan “meat,” from faux leather to luxury skin-care products. But is there enough demand outside of food alternatives?

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Breaking Nicotine’s Powerful Draw

Millions of smokers could be forced to confront the agony of nicotine withdrawal as the F.D.A. weighs calling for a drastic reduction in the addictive lure of cigarettes.

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Older Generations Are Reclaiming Rites of Passage

Rituals like graduations and weddings are few and far between for older adults. Some are finding ways to honor their momentous occasions.

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How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic

They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.

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Why Don’t Many Hotels Install Carbon Monoxide Alarms?

Three carbon monoxide deaths at a resort in the Bahamas called attention to the dangers of the odorless gas. In the U.S., where it often takes multiple poisonings for hotels to install alarms, a debate about detector policies has been intensifying.

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Parechovirus Sickened 23 Infants in Tennessee, C.D.C. Says

The common pathogen frequently produces the mild symptoms of a cold, but it can cause severe illness and death in babies under 3 months old, health officials say, warning doctors to be vigilant.

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Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It.

Experts share tips on advocating for yourself in a health care setting.

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To Stop or Not to Stop the Fight

As combat sports grow in popularity, ringside physicians grapple with the precarious ethics of their role.

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To Stop or Not to Stop the Fight

As combat sports grow in popularity, ringside physicians grapple with the precarious ethics of their role.

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Dr. Oh Eun-young, ‘the God of Parenting,’ Will See You Now, on TV

In South Korea, Dr. Oh Eun-young, a celebrated psychiatrist, has helped destigmatize seeking therapy and blown up the traditionally private relationship with patients by putting it all on TV.

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England Overhauls Medical Care for Transgender Youth

The National Health Service is closing England’s sole youth gender clinic, which had been criticized for long wait times and inadequate services.

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On Monkeypox, Health Secretary Says States ‘Need to Work With Us’

The suggestion that states need to do more seemed to startle state and local officials, who said in interviews that they are generally satisfied with the federal government’s response.

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In Rural America, Covid Hits Black and Hispanic People Hardest

At the peak of the Omicron wave, Covid killed Black Americans in rural areas at a rate roughly 34 percent higher than it did white people.

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Potentially Deadly Bacteria Detected in U.S. Soil for First Time

The bacteria, Burkholderia pseudomallei, was found along the Gulf Coast region of Southern Mississippi. Previously, it had been detected in parts of Asia and Australia.

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