Viatris Settles EpiPen Antitrust Litigation for $264 Million

The proposed settlement, which requires a judge’s approval, would resolve a legal battle that began after the company, in 2016, raised the price for two EpiPens to $608 from $100.

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What is Microdosing, and Does it Work?

Scientists are split over whether the benefits some microdosers experience are a placebo effect or something more.

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For Older Americans, Some Positive Health News

Three recent developments — incremental and undramatic but encouraging — are likely to improve the lives and health of seniors.

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Pfizer Shot Is Far Less Effective in 5- to 11-Year-Olds Than in Older Kids, New Data Show

While protection against hospitalization is still strong, the vaccine offered almost no protection against infection, even just a month after full vaccination.

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When an Ancestry Search Reveals Fertility Fraud

Starting in the 1960s, three physicians in Rochester, N.Y., began secretly using their own sperm to help women become pregnant.

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Dr. Bronner’s, the Soap Company, Dips Into Psychedelics

Under the leadership of the founder’s grandsons, the company has become a big financial backer of efforts to loosen government restrictions on illegal drugs.

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Were These Doctors Treating Pain or Dealing Drugs?

The Supreme Court will hear from two convicted pill mill doctors in cases that could have significant implications for physicians’ latitude to prescribe addictive painkillers.

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New C.D.C. Guidelines Suggest 70 Percent of Americans Can Stop Wearing Masks

The agency issued a new set of recommendations intended to help communities live with the virus and get back to normal life.

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C.D.C. Study Raises Questions About Agency’s Isolation Guidelines

Many people with Omicron infections may still be contagious beyond five days of isolation, a new report suggests.

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Masking and Isolating Reduced Omicron Spread in Homes, C.D.C. Finds

Still, the agency found that the variant circulated aggressively in households, especially when the infected person was under 5.

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The C.D.C. will soon loosen indoor mask guidelines, officials say.

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The White House Is Mulling a New Pandemic Strategy

President Biden’s coronavirus response team is evaluating a 136-page blueprint by a team of outside experts who have spent much of this week meeting behind closed doors with White House officials.

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Study Finds High Rates of Covid-Related Discrimination Against U.S. Minorities

Those of Asian ethnicity, who have been victims of several high-profile bias crimes during the pandemic, reported the highest rates of racist comments and threats related to the pandemic.

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Companies Finalize $26 Billion Deal With States and Cities to End Opioid Lawsuits

The first checks could be cut in April. The money — from the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson & Johnson — will be used for addiction treatment and prevention.

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Maternal deaths in the U.S. rose during the first year of the pandemic.

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Avian Flu Spread in the US Worries Poultry Industry

Though the risk to humans is low, scientists warn that outbreaks among farmed birds increase the potential for the virus to mutate and pose a threat to humans.

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Abortion Pills Now Account for More Than Half of U.S. Abortions

The data, released in a report Thursday, is a sign that medication abortion has become the most accessible and preferred method for terminating pregnancy.

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Justice Dept. Plans to Block $13 Billion Deal by UnitedHealth Group

The agency’s expected lawsuit against the deal for a health technology company would be the latest move by the Biden administration to quash corporate consolidation.

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The C.D.C. advises some people wait longer between the first and second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.

Young men between the age of 12 and 39 are especially encouraged to wait eight weeks before the second dose to decrease the risk of myocarditis, the agency said.

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Gov. Abbott Pushes to Investigate Treatments for Trans Youth as 'Child Abuse'

While it’s unclear whether the order could be enforced, medical providers and child welfare advocates condemned the move as dangerous.

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F.D.A. Grants the First Condom Approval for Anal Sex

Though public health experts have long advised the use of condoms for anal sex to protect against H.I.V. and other infections, regulators did not have enough data to allow marketing for that use.

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Maternal Deaths Rose During the First Year of the Pandemic

Deaths during pregnancy and the first six weeks after childbirth increased, especially for Black and Hispanic women, according to a new report.

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Exercise Can Build Up Your Brain. Air Pollution May Negate Those Benefits.

People who worked out in even moderately polluted air did not show the kinds of brain improvements tied to a lower risk of dementia.

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The Strange Connection Between Mono and M.S.

New research proves a virus — one that almost all of us have — “causes” multiple sclerosis.

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Thomas Insel, the ‘Nation’s Psychiatrist,’ Takes Stock, With Frustration

In a new book, Thomas Insel, who led research into psychiatric disease for 13 years, says that advances in neuroscience have yet to benefit patients.

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To Fill Empty Retail Space, Landlords Tap Doctors and Dentists

Health care providers are increasingly opening offices and clinics in street-level storefronts, malls and shopping centers, taking advantage of rents depressed by the pandemic.

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The Coronavirus Menagerie

With the virus widespread in white-tailed deer, scientists wonder which animals might be next.

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To Fill Empty Retail Space, Landlords Tap Doctors and Dentists

Health care providers are increasingly opening offices and clinics in street-level storefronts, malls and shopping centers, taking advantage of rents depressed by the pandemic.

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The Coronavirus Menagerie

With the virus widespread in white-tailed deer, scientists wonder which animals might be next.

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Got a Covid Booster? You Probably Won’t Need Another for a Long Time

A flurry of new studies suggest that several parts of the immune system can mount a sustained, potent response to any coronavirus variant.

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In an Arctic Outpost, Friday Nights Are for Curling

In a town with one stoplight, 120 miles above the Arctic Circle, curling provides women with a reason to leave their houses. And that is no small thing.

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A Key to Returning to Normal Is Paid Sick Leave, Democrats Say

There were a record number of people home sick with Covid in January. Democrats are trying to revive paid pandemic sick leave.

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Jane Brody: Here's How Health Advice Changed Since I Joined The Times

Before I go, I want to highlight the breathtaking evolution in health advice that has occurred since I joined The Times in 1965.

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The Problem With the Pandemic Plot

Literary novelists are struggling with whether, and how, to incorporate Covid into their fiction.

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Newsom's New Covid Plan Aims to Move California Out of 'Crisis Mode'

He and other U.S. governors are shifting to policies that acknowledge the need to live with the continuing uncertainty over possible new variants.

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The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects

The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.

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How to Decide if You Should Still Wear a Mask

Experts weigh in on where, and when, you can safely take one off.

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More Teenage Girls With Eating Disorders Wound Up in the E.R. During the Pandemic

A new C.D.C. study underscored the mental health issues facing teenagers in the past few years.

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Sacklers Raise Their Offer to Settle Opioid Lawsuits by More Than $1 Billion

But they continue to insist on protection from civil liability claims over opioids, an unusual and controversial measure that derailed a previous deal.

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More Teenage Girls With Eating Disorders Wound Up in the E.R. During the Pandemic

A new C.D.C. study underscored the mental health issues facing teenagers in the past few years.

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Sacklers Raise Their Offer to Settle Opioid Lawsuits by More Than $1 Billion

But they continue to insist on protection from civil liability claims over opioids, an unusual and controversial measure that derailed a previous deal.

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Unraveling Booster and Vaccine-Timing Rules for International Travelers

The requirements for entering foreign countries during the pandemic can be confusing and ever-changing, especially when it comes to boosters. Here’s what to expect.

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How A.D.H.D. Can Affect Your Relationships

The symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can push couples to their breaking point, but there is hope for those willing to seek help.

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Will Adults Need a Fourth Dose of Covid Vaccine? It’s Too Soon to Know.

A Food and Drug Administration official said the best time for an additional shot may be fall, when the spread of the coronavirus is expected to pick up again

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Dr. Herbert Benson, Who Saw the Mind as Medicinal, Dies at 86

A cardiologist and best-selling author, he was initially a skeptic before finding that a person can influence bodily health through Eastern-style meditation.

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N.Y.C. Anime Convention Was Not a Superspreader Event, C.D.C. Finds

The rate of positive results among attendees who took coronavirus tests was about the same as that of New York City at large, researchers found.

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Covid patients may have increased risk of developing mental health problems.

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Vulnerable to Covid, High-Risk Americans Feel Left Behind

Transplant recipients, cancer patients and millions of other Americans with risk factors feel ignored and abandoned as their neighbors, and their government, seek a return to normal.

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Lia Thomas, Trans Swimmer, Revives Debate About Sex Testing in Sports

For nearly a century, certain elite athletes have been subject to anatomical, chromosomal or hormonal testing to compete in women’s events.

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Covid Patients May Have Increased Risk of Developing Mental Health Problems

A new, large study found that in the year after getting Covid, people were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with psychiatric disorders they hadn’t had than people who didn’t get infected.

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Johann Hari on How to Reclaim Your Focus

In his new book, Johann Hari investigates how our brains have been broken by technology — and what we can do to fight back.

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Vaccinated Mothers Pass Protection on to Newborns, a New Study Suggests

It is the first real-world, epidemiological evidence that maternal vaccination can protect infants, likely because they are born carrying their mother’s antibodies.

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Doctors Are More Likely to Describe Black Patients as Uncooperative, Studies Find

Patients with diabetes are also more likely to be described as “noncompliant,” according to large studies of medical records.

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He Could Barely Walk, and He Was Seeing Double. What Was Wrong?

Could he be having a stroke — or was it something more unusual?

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A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment

She’s the third person ever to be cured. Researchers announced that the new approach holds the potential for curing more people of racially diverse backgrounds.

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Senate Confirms Califf as F.D.A. Chief in Tight Vote

The narrow 50-46 decision underscored the divisions on both sides of the aisle over agency policies on opioids and abortion medications and his ties to the drug industry.

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Vaccination during pregnancy protects infants from being hospitalized for Covid, a new study suggests.

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‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’

As the coronavirus spread, demand for nurses came from every corner. Some jobs for travelers paid more than $10,000 a week. Will the boom last?

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An Undiscovered Coronavirus? The Mystery of the ‘Russian Flu’

Scientists are grasping for any example that could help anticipate the future of Covid, even a mysterious respiratory pandemic that spread in the late 19th century.

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New C.D.C. data adds to evidence that boosters’ protection against severe Covid plunges after four months.

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Abortion Opponents Hear a ‘Heartbeat.’ Most Experts Hear Something Else.

Embedded in abortion laws in Texas are disputed assertions about embryonic development and the procedure’s risks. Chief among them: whether the early embryo has a heart.

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Some U.S. governors defend their mask policy changes to ‘get back to normal.’

The move by several states to lift restrictions comes as a new CBS poll found that a majority of Americans still support mask mandates, including in schools.

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Recent studies underscore the dangers of pregnancy complications for unvaccinated women with Covid.

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F.D.A Delays Review of Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine for Children Under 5

The agency will wait for data on whether three doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid vaccine are effective in young children after new, disappointing data.

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Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report Describes Severe Skull Fractures

Such an extensive head injury would likely have left the actor confused, if not unconscious, experts said.

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F.D.A. Clears Monoclonal Antibody Drug From Eli Lilly

The federal government has ordered 600,000 doses of the monoclonal antibody treatment, which is meant for high-risk Covid patients early in their illness.

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Fact-Checking Joe Rogan’s Interview With Robert Malone That Caused an Uproar

Mr. Rogan, a wildly popular podcast host, and his guest, Dr. Malone, a controversial infectious-disease researcher, offered a litany of falsehoods over three hours.

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Patricia Moreno, Spiritual Fitness Leader, Dies at 57

Ms. Moreno’s intenSati program helped bring positive psychology into the exercise world.

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Marie-Claire Chevalier, Catalyst for French Abortion Law, Dies at 66

While in high school in 1972, she was raped and became pregnant. Her illegal abortion paved the way for France to decriminalize the procedure in 1975.

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Luc Montagnier, Nobel-Winning Discoverer of H.I.V., Is Dead at 89

He found the virus that causes AIDS, fell into a feud over it and later turned controversial, taking an anti-vaccine stance during the Covid-19 crisis.

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Did the ‘Black Death’ Really Kill Half of Europe? New Research Says No.

Looking at ancient deposits of pollen as markers of agricultural activity, researchers found that the Black Death caused a patchwork of destruction in Europe.

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C.D.C. Proposes New Guidelines for Treating Pain, Including Opioid Use

The agency threw out previous recommended limits on doses but encouraged “nonopioid therapies” wherever possible.

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She Wasn’t on PCP, but Her Own Body Made Her Hallucinate

In “A Molecule Away From Madness,” Sara Manning Peskin explains how neurological aberrations can kill.

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C.D.C. Resists Pressure to Change Guidance on Masks

The Biden administration said federal masking guidance would not change for now, but was seeking advice from public health experts on the way forward.

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The Next Vaccine Debate: Immunize Young Children Now, or Wait?

It’s not clear whether three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will adequately protect young children. But the F.D.A. may authorize the first two doses anyway.

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Tracking Mask Mandates Across the U.S.

Several governors have moved to ease mask requirements since Jan. 1. Here’s how policies are changing.

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The Next Vaccine Debate: Immunize Young Children Now, or Wait?

It’s not clear whether three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will adequately protect young children. But the F.D.A. may authorize the first two doses anyway.

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Exercise May Enhance the Effects of a Covid or Flu Shot

A 90-minute walk, jog or bike ride after getting vaccinated may boost your body’s immune response.

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New York Drops Indoor Mask Mandate, Easing Covid Rules

After a scare in November, New Jersey’s governor and other Democratic leaders held back-channel talks over lifting mandates and helping voters impatient with restrictions reclaim a sense of normalcy.

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With Mask Restrictions Set to Lift, a Haze of Uncertainty Lingers

Public health experts agree that school mask mandates should not last forever, but differ on whether the time has come to remove them.

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Can MDMA Save a Marriage?

For some couples on the brink of divorce, taking the illegal psychedelic drug was a last resort — but it ended up being the only thing that worked.

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The New Normal, a Virtual Event on Life and Love After Omicron

David Leonhardt of The Morning newsletter hosts a live conversation to explain this moment in the pandemic and to hear your Tiny Love Stories.

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New York Deer Infected With Omicron, Study Finds

White-tailed deer on Staten Island have become the first wild animals with documented Omicron infections. The coronavirus has now been found in deer in 15 states.

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Biden’s Top Science Adviser Resigns After Acknowledging Demeaning Behavior

The adviser, Eric S. Lander, had apologized for his workplace conduct. The president had pledged to immediately fire any official who acted that way toward colleagues.

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Biden’s Top Science Adviser Resigns After Acknowledging ‘Demeaning’ Behavior

The adviser, Eric S. Lander, had apologized for his workplace conduct. The president had pledged to immediately fire any official who acted that way toward colleagues.

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Chimps Catch Insects to Put on Wounds. Is It Folk Medicine?

They don’t eat the bugs, and they’re definitely applying them to wounds, so some scientists think the primates may be treating one another’s injuries.

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Is the Coronavirus in Your Backyard?

White-tailed deer could become a reservoir for the virus, putting people and animals at risk, health experts say.

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Looking for Early Warning Signs of Pancreatic Cancer

Scientists are exploring whether the onset of diabetes may in some cases herald the existence of one of the most deadly of all cancers.

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Omicron Helped Clarify Pfizer Vaccine Efficacy in Young Kids, Gottlieb Says

At the urging of the federal government, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech applied last week for authorization for two doses of its Covid vaccine to children aged 4 and younger.

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Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress

Hospitals and clinics are struggling to hold up amid a cash shortage and a vast surge of malnutrition and disease. By one estimate, 90 percent may close in the next few months.

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Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room

Ten years ago, psychologists proposed that a wide range of people would suffer anxiety and grief over climate. Skepticism about that idea is gone.

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Consistently wearing high-quality masks offers strong protection, a study in California suggests.

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The Pandemic Has Made Many Seniors Less Active

Health experts are concerned that the pandemic, in upending daily routines, has reduced mobility and physical conditioning in older adults.

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Covid-19 Commission Modeled on 9/11 Inquiry Draws Bipartisan Backing

A broad, bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around a plan for an independent panel to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and the U.S. response.

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Younger Americans Benefited Less From Booster Shots Than Older People

Among those under age 50, vaccination even without a booster protected strongly against hospitalization and death, according to new C.D.C. data.

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Pandemic Era Tests May Speed Hepatitis-C Detection

A wave of diagnostics ushered in by Covid could help revive flagging efforts to eliminate the disease.

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Lawmakers Press Amazon on Sales of Chemical Used in Suicides

Even as grieving families tried to warn Amazon and other e-commerce sites of the danger, there were more purchases and more deaths.

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Medicare Will Soon Provide Free At-Home Coronavirus Tests

The announcement came after lawmakers and advocates argued that Medicare recipients had been passed over in the push to require insurers to cover the tests.

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Body Odor May Have Smelled Much Worse to Your Ancient Ancestors

Researchers worked out which receptors in your nose detect particular scent molecules, and found evidence of evolutionary change in some of these genes.

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F.D.A. Nominee Faces Steep Climb to Senate Confirmation

Dr. Robert Califf, a former agency commissioner, is encountering opposition over federal opioid and abortion policies and his industry ties.

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In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal

For the past year, scientists have been looking for the source of strange coronavirus sequences that have appeared in the city’s wastewater.

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Was He Really Having a Heart Attack?

The doctor insisted he was — but he felt it couldn’t be true. One of them was right.

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Biden to Present Plan to Cut Cancer Death Rate in Half

The president aims to revive the cancer “moonshot” program he headed as vice president.

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A Cancer Treatment Makes Leukemia Vanish, but Creates More Mysteries

Two early recipients of CAR T immunotherapy were free of a blood cancer nearly a decade after receiving the therapy.

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Biden Promised 500 Million Free Covid Tests. Then He Had to Find Them.

Millions of Americans are now receiving tests through the new mail program, which health experts said came too late to meet demand during the brunt of Omicron wave.

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Pfizer Asks F.D.A. to Clear 2 Vaccine Doses for Young Children as a Start

The Food and Drug Administration asked to review Pfizer’s data on two doses now, while the company continues to assess whether three doses would be more effective.

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Alan A. Stone, 92, Dies; Challenged Psychiatry’s Use in Public Policy

An iconoclastic thinker, he greatly influenced the evolution of psychiatric ethics, and guided the decision to take homosexuality off the list of mental disorders.

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Alan A. Stone, 92, Dies; Challenged Psychiatry’s Use in Public Policy

An iconoclastic thinker, he greatly influenced the evolution of psychiatric ethics, and guided the decision to take homosexuality off the list of mental disorders.

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The Morning at Night: A New York Times Event

On March 9, join David Leonhardt for a live-streamed edition of the newsletter as we explore what Omicron signals about the state of the pandemic, and watch Modern Love editors share their favorite reader-submitted Tiny Love Stories.

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What’s the Best Nondairy Milk Alternative?

Soy milk, nut milks and other products may offer unique benefits.

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Tribes Reach $590 Million Opioid Settlement With Johnson & Johnson

Money from the tentative deal would go toward addiction and treatment and would be overseen by Native American tribal leaders.

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Pfizer to Ask FDA to Authorize Covid-19 Vaccine for Children Under 5

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