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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