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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