U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Treatment
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.
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Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.
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The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.
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The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.
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A historian and sociologist of science re-examines the “posture panic” of the last century. You’ll want to sit down for this.
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At Least Three Women Were Infected With H.I.V. After ‘Vampire Facials’
The women underwent the cosmetic procedure at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
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One in Five Milk Samples Nationwide Shows Genetic Traces of Bird Flu
There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread.
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Grandmother Becomes Second Patient to Receive Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
NYU Langone Health surgeons performed the transplant after implanting a mechanical heart pump in the severely ill patient.
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F.D.A. Approves Antibiotic for Increasingly Hard-to-Treat Urinary Tract Infections
Pivmecillinam, which has been used in Europe for decades, will become available next year to women 18 and older.
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5 Takeaways From the Supreme Court Arguments on Idaho’s Abortion Ban
The court’s ruling could extend to at least half a dozen other states that have similarly restrictive bans, and the implications of the case could stretch beyond abortion.
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‘Aging in Place, or Stuck in Place?’
Homeownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was.
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Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?
The pandemic played a role in increased consumption, but alcohol use among people 65 and older was climbing even before 2020.
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When Medicaid Comes After the Family Home
Federal law requires states to seek reimbursement from the assets, usually homes, of people who died after receiving benefits for long-term care.
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Apparently Healthy, but Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s?
New criteria could lead to a diagnosis on the basis of a simple blood test, even in the absence of obvious symptoms.
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A society in which members of different generations do not interact “is a dangerous experiment,” said one researcher.
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Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care
The United States has no coherent system for providing long-term care, leading many who are aging to struggle to stay independent or to rely on a patchwork of solutions.
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Desperate Families Search for Affordable Home Care
Facing a severe shortage of aides and high costs, people trying to keep aging loved ones at home often cobble together a patchwork of family and friends to help.
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Extra Fees Drive Assisted-Living Profits
The add-ons pile up: $93 for medications, $50 for cable TV. Prices soar as the industry leaves no service unbilled. The housing option is out of reach for many families.
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Why Long-Term Care Insurance Falls Short for So Many
The private insurance market has proved wildly inadequate in providing financial security for millions of older Americans, in part by underestimating how many policyholders would use their coverage.
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‘I Wish I Had Known That No One Was Going to Help Me’
Adult children discuss the trials of caring for their aging parents: unreliable agencies, a lack of help and dwindling financial resources.
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5 Exercises for a Better Sex Life
Any physical activity can improve your sexual health. But a few exercises are especially beneficial.
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How to Show Up for a Friend Getting Divorced
The end of a marriage can be incredibly isolating. But small gestures from loved ones can provide some relief.
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The U.S. Is Flooded With Fake Botox. Here’s What to Watch Out For.
Counterfeit doses and unlicensed providers are harming patients, experts said.
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What You Really Need to Know About Antidepressants
Facts and common misconceptions about some of America’s most widely used drugs.
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Senate Committee Investigates Ozempic and Wegovy Costs
Senator Bernie Sanders is pressing the drugmaker Novo Nordisk for details on its pricing of the popular diabetes and weight loss medications.
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As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well.
By Penelope Green
Since a new form of bird flu arrived in 2022, federal officials have sought to reassure Americans that the threat to the public remained low.
By Noah Weiland, Benjamin Mueller and Emily Anthes
The Agriculture Department finalized a new rule to bring the meals more in line with federal dietary standards.
By Linda Qiu
A single spillover, from a bird to a cow, led to the infections, a review of genetic data has found.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Lisa Friedman, who covers climate change, discussed the fight to regulate toxic chemicals found in nearly half of America’s tap water.
By Josh Ocampo
The milk poses virtually no risk to consumers, experts said. But the finding suggests that the outbreak in dairy cows is wider than has been known.
By Emily Anthes, Apoorva Mandavilli and Noah Weiland
Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures want more data, while some controlled by Democrats want less, fearing it could be used to target patients or providers.
By Pam Belluck and Emma G. Fitzsimmons
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, malaria and Guinea worm.
By Adam Nossiter
They were distinct people who pursued different lives. “Get past this already, everybody,” Lori said, “get past it and learn to know the individual person.”
By Richard Sandomir
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are working quickly to assess how it is evolving and how much of a risk it poses to humans.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes
In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is inspiring and infuriating her followers.
By Lisa Miller
After he made a fortune selling prescription drugs and providing medical information online, he and his wife became leading breeders of thoroughbred horses.
By Sam Roberts
Novo Nordisk’s factories work nonstop turning out Ozempic and Wegovy, its blockbuster weight-loss drugs, but the Danish company has far bigger ambitions.
By Eshe Nelson and Charlotte de la Fuente
Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment.
By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes
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Among those with substance use disorders who have been referred to child welfare, less than half received medication or counseling.
By Emily Baumgaertner
Mammography can miss tumors in women with dense breasts, so their doctors often include ultrasound or M.R.I. scans. Patients often wind up paying the bill.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
As record heat enveloped the nation, the rate of emergency room visits increased compared with the previous five years, a sign of the major health risks of high temperatures.
By Noah Weiland
The change followed a sweeping review by England’s National Health Service that found “remarkably weak” evidence for youth gender treatments.
By Azeen Ghorayshi
The company has told countries that it can supply only 18.8 million of the 29.6 million doses it was contracted to deliver this year.
By Stephanie Nolen
After a drawn-out global controversy over the coronavirus, the W.H.O. has updated its classification of how pathogens spread through the air.
By Carl Zimmer
Have your out-of-network insurance bills skyrocketed? Chris Hamby, an investigative reporter for The Times, may have an explanation.
By Josh Ocampo
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
By Jonathan Moens
New regimens in development, including once-weekly pills and semiannual shots, could help control the virus in hard-to-reach populations.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.
By Emily Schmall and Dani Blum
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The company reported results of clinical trials involving Zepbound, an obesity drug in the same class as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy.
By Gina Kolata
At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.
By Emily Schmall
Prescriptions for social activities, exercise and the arts — first popularized in Britain — are coming to America. But some experts say the U.S. health care system may get in the way.
By Christina Caron
Federal regulation capping toxic airborne silica has been decades in the making. The delay has cost miners dearly.
By Chris Hamby
In the year after a pandemic-era policy preserving Medicaid coverage lapsed, more than 20 million people were dropped from the program at some point.
By Noah Weiland
His testimony as an expert witness in some 600 trials helped plaintiffs win billions of dollars in cases involving malfeasance by pharmaceutical makers.
By Clay Risen
“Eldest daughter syndrome” assumes that birth order shapes who we are and how we interact. Does it?
By Catherine Pearson
To get the best care, experts recommend speaking up. Here are tips for what to ask and how to evaluate the treatments you are offered.
By Knvul Sheikh
Lawmakers raising national security concerns and seeking to disconnect a major Chinese firm from U.S. pharmaceutical interests have rattled the biotech industry. The firm is deeply involved in development and manufacturing of crucial therapies for cancer, cystic fibrosis, H.I.V. and other illnesses.
By Christina Jewett
He diagnosed dozens of patients with what he said were suppressed memories of being tortured by cults. He later lost his license.
By Clay Risen
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Millions in Sackler donations sat dormant, rising in value as the opioid epidemic raged and as other institutions distanced themselves from the makers of a notorious painkiller.
By Christina Jewett
We want to hear from patients as well as doctors, nurses, technicians, medical residents and any others with experience in the system.
By Brian M. Rosenthal and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs.
By Brian M. Rosenthal and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
We want to hear from pet owners about their experiences taking their animals to the vet, and how they paid for their animals’ care.
By Katie Thomas
He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.
By Richard Sandomir
A public research institute in Brazil has proved a new shot protects against the disease, but can’t make it fast enough to stop the huge outbreak sweeping Latin America.
By Stephanie Nolen
One company is going to great lengths to build it up, but it will be years before it returns to the minimum level.
By Stephanie Nolen
Perfectionism among young people has skyrocketed, but experts say there are ways to quiet your inner critic.
By Christina Caron
The campsite, run by a 22-year-old volunteer, became a first stop for people seeking food, water and warmth as they waited to be apprehended by border authorities.
By Emily Baumgaertner
The state’s Supreme Court ruled that the 1864 law is enforceable today. Here is what led to its enactment.
By Pam Belluck
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Five European countries have recently restricted hormone treatments for adolescents with gender distress. They have not banned the care, unlike many U.S. states.
By Azeen Ghorayshi
A citizen-science collaboration in New York has turned up a half-dozen birds infected with the avian flu virus.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Ireland will require them starting in 2026, and there are nascent efforts elsewhere to add more explicit labeling about the health risks of drinking.
By Ted Alcorn
A global survey found harmful levels even in water samples taken far from any obvious source of contamination.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
Premature babies especially benefited from skin-to-skin contact, and women tended to respond more strongly than men did.
By Joanne Silberner
A nonprofit group called R.I.P. Medical Debt has relieved Americans of $11 billion in hospital bills. But that did not improve their mental health or their credit scores, a study found.
By Sarah Kliff
A private-equity-backed firm has helped drive down payments to medical providers, drive up patients’ bills and earn billions for insurers.
By Chris Hamby
A little-known data firm helps health insurers make more when less of an out-of-network claim gets paid. Patients can be on the hook for the difference.
By Chris Hamby
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by such investors helps insurers boost their profits.
By Chris Hamby
The New England Journal of Medicine published an article condemning its own record during World War II.
By Alexander Nazaryan
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In St. Louis and around the country, people harmed by the drive for an atomic bomb have been shut out of a federal law enacted to help such victims.
By Catie Edmondson
Dr. Nora Volkow, who leads the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, would like the public to know things are getting better. Mostly.
By Matt Richtel
Unlike the coronavirus, the H5N1 virus has been studied for years. Vaccines and treatments are available should they ever become necessary.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
A study found that when older workers in Bangladesh were given free reading glasses, they earned 33 percent more than those who had not.
By Andrew Jacobs
The decision established that minors at open-air sites were in legal custody of the Department of Homeland Security and thus must receive safe shelter, even if they had not yet been formally processed.
By Emily Baumgaertner
Results of a large clinical trial found the treatment did not work any better than a placebo.
By Pam Belluck
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