Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
On the road with a 68,000-pound tractor-trailer that crisscrosses West Virginia, saving lives.
How the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is dismantling the agency.
The regulatory agency confronts a future determined by a health secretary hostile to its mission.
New restrictions on Covid shots run counter to scientific evidence, the groups said.
The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets.
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.
President Trump’s domestic policy law jeopardizes plans to reopen one rural county’s hospital — and health coverage for hundreds of thousands of state residents.
Looking back at an awkward moment in the history of adolescent psychology.
He turned a tiny family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with “just add milk.”
Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better.
Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.
More medicines will be spared from Medicare price negotiations, a change that is projected to wipe out billions in savings for the federal government.
Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?
As Europe buckles under a punishing heat wave, residents and summer travelers are struggling to find relief. Here’s how and where to look for respite.
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global standard. Thousands of lives have been saved.
Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. But a new paper suggests it might be more a product of our environment.
Hints of a more skeptical approach to immunizations have already surfaced.
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding.
Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an effective treatment that is being more widely prescribed.
The reconstituted C.D.C. panel will revisit the standard vaccination schedule. The former head of an anti-vaccine group is now a special federal employee.
He walked away from his family’s hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.
A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.
Critics saw in the move the beginnings of a more restrictive approach to providing vaccines to Americans.
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the agency, Gavi, had “ignored the science” in immunizing children around the world.
The administration has gutted agencies like U.S.A.I.D., and President Trump has denigrated their work as wasteful and rife with fraud. His views on humanitarian assistance have seesawed since he...
The Senate health committee chairman said new members of a key advisory panel who were appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “lack experience.”
Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.
In recent extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired and replaced a team that makes vaccine recommendations for the country. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global...
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm...
From a lone clinic in Texas to an entire school district in North Dakota, the virus is upending daily life and revealing a deeper crisis of belief.
Temperatures in Central Park are forecast to soar into the high 90s on Monday and Tuesday, but it will feel like it’s 105 degrees outside.
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.
Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes.
Major companies had faced mounting pressure to stop denying or stalling authorization of coverage for treatments and prescriptions.
Proponents say that manually stimulating acupressure points can ease a variety of maladies.
Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.
Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said.
Experts weigh in on what to bring for a healthy, stress-free trip.
The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.
The judge accused the Trump administration of discriminating against minorities and L.G.B.T.Q. people and ordered the government to restore much of the funding.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, dismissed 17 scientific advisers to the C.D.C. Critics fear newly appointed members will roll back vaccine recommendations.
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best...
Newer formulations are even more effective at preventing illnesses that commonly afflict seniors — perhaps even dementia.
The state’s governor signed legislation to allow clinical trials of a psychedelic drug that shows promise for veterans in treating addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.
When U.C.L.A. psychologists first proposed teaching adults with autism how to date, funders wouldn’t go near it. Now we are in a new world.
Every breath you take, they really may be watching you.
From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.
The health secretary promised not to pick “anti-vaxxers.” But some public health leaders accused him of breaking his word.
With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.
Senators criticized the head of the National Institutes of Health for not taking responsibility for Trump administration cuts to research funding.
Republicans targeting safety net programs once invoked women they claimed were living lavishly on government funds. Now as they seek to pare back Medicaid, the imagery has changed —...
Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones.
The proposed limits on federal loans fall well below the costs of medical school. Critics say this could deter students from pursuing medicine.
The U.S. health secretary said people should have access to experimental therapies including unregulated uses of stem cells. But some methods have resulted in blindness, tumors and other injuries.
The outbreak has been tied to multiple brown organic and brown cage-free egg brands distributed to grocery stores in seven states, officials said.
A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients.
Elon Musk has said that he used ketamine as a treatment in the past, but he denied reports that he was taking it frequently and recreationally.
Though the Sackler name was tarnished over Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, Arthur Sackler’s should not be, she insisted; a company leader, he died well before the...
U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients and will delay analysis of long-term trends.
The states consider it a move to force the F.D.A. to review and acknowledge extensive research showing the pill’s safety.
A new study shows how the technology deployed in Covid vaccines helped scientists coax the virus out of hiding.
As the United States cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability.
The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.”
At issue is how to interpret a federal law barring hospitals from turning away poor or uninsured patients.
Multiple myeloma is considered incurable, but a third of patients in a Johnson & Johnson clinical trial have lived without detectable cancer for years after facing certain death.
Coming June 5: A six-part podcast exploring the origins of medical treatment for transgender young people, and how the care got pulled into a political fight that could end...
More older people are using cannabis products regularly, but research suggests their cannabis-related health problems are also on the rise.
Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty?
A clinical trial found that women could switch drugs without waiting for scans showing cancer progression, which improved their quality of life.
He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most vulnerable hostage — in this case, women.”
The outbreak, which was traced to a grower in Florida, has spread to 18 states, according to the C.D.C. Several distributors and stores, including Target, have recalled products containing...
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company’s shot.
He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant.
Cultivating self-compassion can actually help you cope better with life’s struggles.
The judge ordered ICE to release Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, who also faces criminal charges.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children.
New research involving nearly 200,000 mothers found that one in 12 rated her mental health as fair or poor.
The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.
At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.
The test may make it easier to identify whether people with memory and thinking problems have Alzheimer’s or not.
More than half of the National Science Foundation grants terminated since April fund programs that would help students train in science, engineering and math.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say.
Though much remains uncertain, experts predicted many people will face new barriers to vaccination.
Contrast-enhanced mammography identified three times as many tumors as ultrasound scans. But it is not widely used for screening in the United States.
Joel said he had normal pressure hydrocephalus, which has led to “problems with hearing, vision and balance.”
The report echoes many of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s talking points on ultraprocessed foods and vaccines, but with some notable omissions.
The consultant had deleted records involving McKinsey’s role in pushing OxyContin sales and driving the opioid crisis.
The report is already receiving pushback from some Republicans and the agriculture industry over fears about the health secretary’s longtime crusade against agricultural chemicals.
They contain increasing amounts of sugar, fat and sodium and decreasing amounts of protein and fiber.
An inquiry found that Nestlé and French officials had concealed the company’s practice of filtering Perrier water it labels “natural.” The head of Nestlé has suggested that human activity...
Agency leaders said there was evidence to justify approval only for older people and those with medical conditions. Many others may not be able to get the shots.
Here’s how to protect your skin and the environment this summer.
Researchers studied data from a million people and found evidence that a height gene shared by both sexes is amplified in men.
The cancer has metastasized to the bone, according to a statement from Mr. Biden’s personal office.
The voluntary recall was prompted after routine testing. It is the second such recall recently of baby food over possible lead contamination.
The procedure could be life-changing for some people with debilitating conditions.
The agency narrowed who can get the shot and added new study requirements that could cost the company tens of millions.
Trump aides have discussed requiring insurers to cover the procedure, though one leading medical group says it has been shut out of the process.
The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created.
Disturbing thoughts and social fixations are among the many manifestations of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
With new testing requirements, it’s not even clear how new Covid or flu shots can be made available this fall.
A government lawyer told a federal judge on Wednesday that the intention is to deport Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, to Russia.
The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.
Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
Some doctors say they are surprised the condition was found at all in the former president, given his age.
A new clinic, opened by a pulmonologist who lost his home in the Palisades blaze, is addressing the health issues developing among people exposed to the fires.
The president has long complained that the United States pays more for medicines than other wealthy countries. But he offered no clear legal authority to mandate lower prices.
The president announced an executive order aimed at lowering U.S. drug costs, revisiting an idea that was blocked in court during his first term.
CVS Caremark decided to stop offering Zepbound in favor of Wegovy for weight loss. It’s the latest example of limits imposed by insurance that disrupt treatments for patients.
They are finding that people who have been assaulted, or who have serious conditions like diabetes or a high-risk pregnancy, are skipping or delaying care.
The C.D.C. delivered $750 million annually to state and local health departments for emergency work. The program was eliminated in the Trump administration’s budget blueprint.
Dr. David Slotwiner de-stresses from a busy week at his Queens hospital by escaping to a New Jersey farm to herd sheep with his Border collies.
A highly contagious liver infection is surging among groups who are not typically at risk. At least seven people have died.
The research team studying how to improve I.V.F. was a casualty of cutbacks at federal health agencies.
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one,...
We asked experts about how the technology works, its safety and its potential in medicine.
The director of the National Institutes of Health previously floated — then walked back — the idea of an autism registry, alarming researchers and parents.
Generally, researchers will no longer be allowed to direct federal funds to international collaborators.
A founder of neonatology, he helped revolutionize the care of preterm and critically ill newborns. “We were able to keep babies alive that would not have survived,” he said.
The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.
The request echoes the position the Biden administration took in the case in January, surprising some observers.
Nearly half of the N.I.H. grants canceled through early May — together worth more than $800 million — addressed the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times...
After taking part in a landmark case against the manufacturers of the synthetic hormone DES, she represented many other victims of harmful drugs and devices.
Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where it is difficult to guarantee patient...
One expert said the consequences would be “catastrophic” if Congress enacts the White House agenda of sweeping budget cuts.
A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.
Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.
She successfully challenged her involuntary commitment to Bellevue Hospital in 1987, setting a precedent for homeless people that remains relevant today.
The Justice Department accused large insurers of colluding with national brokers to steer older people and those with disabilities toward coverage that might not offer the best medical care.
In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.
What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.
New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be.
After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts and review firings to fill gaps in critical roles.
Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
For a limited group of cancer patients who have solid tumors in the stomach, rectum, esophagus and other organs, an immunotherapy trial offered stunning results.
Medicines and chemicals are huge exports for European Union countries. That makes the sector a weak spot as trade tensions drag on.
A $56 million grant to train emergency responders and supply them with the overdose reversal spray, plus other programs that address addiction, could be eliminated.
Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.
An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room.
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced thousands of research papers, altering medical care for patients around the world.
Acadia Healthcare’s chief executive was awarded a $1.8 million bonus to respond to “unprecedented governmental inquiries” into allegations of holding psychiatric patients against their will.
The few domestic companies that still make protective gear for health care workers have clamored for federal intervention. But they worry President Trump’s trade war with China won’t help.
Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics.
Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.
Social media became a place of both solace and torment. How much was mine to share?
The justices heard arguments in a constitutional challenge to a task force that decides what treatments are covered at no cost.
The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, a priority for many social conservatives.
People with dementia often forget even close family members as the disease advances. “It can throw people into an existential crisis,” one expert said.
People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma.
The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.
An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.
An internal memo proposes carving out $40 billion from federal health agencies while eliminating dozens of programs. Congress has ultimate appropriation authority.
Eli Lilly reported promising results from a study of its experimental oral drug that could rival popular injections to treat obesity and diabetes.
Eli Lilly said clinical results of its GLP-1 in pill form showed safety and efficacy data similar to blockbuster injectable drugs.
The health secretary said he would prioritize studies into environmental causes while harshly discounting other factors scientists say are likely contributing to rising rates of the condition.
The health secretary said he would prioritize studies into environmental causes while harshly discounting other factors scientists say are likely contributing to rising rates of the condition.
President Trump directed his administration to help states import drugs from Canada. But a proposal to alter a Medicare program to reduce costs could wind up raising prices.
In the first clinical trial of its kind, an A.I. chatbot eased mental health symptoms among participants. The technology may someday help solve the provider shortage.
Citing a national security statute, the administration has begun a process to investigate the impact of imported semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.
Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause.
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.
The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid thinking.
The nation’s health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address the mass layoffs that have gutted oversight of tobacco and...
The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, pushed back on a growing campaign against the mineral, which has been used for decades to prevent cavities.
Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” made of dried placenta has soared as doctors pocket lucrative discounts from sellers.
From the “chairs” to the hallway medicine, the show’s depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings true for medical experts.
The health secretary seemed stoic — maybe nervous, even — at the start of his first major trip. But on a hike with Navajo Nation leaders, he was finally...
Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.
The health secretary’s appearance at a tribal self-governance conference brought collegial discussions and a bit of friction.
Mother-to-child H.I.V. transmission takes an enormous toll in low-income countries. The Trump administration has laid off the officials who worked to solve the problem.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kicked off a tour through southwestern states on Monday by calling on states to ban fluoride in drinking water supplies, a move that...
Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration.
Cargill Kitchen Solutions recalled more than 210,000 pounds of products under its Egg Beaters and Bob Evans labels.
It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its elimination status.
The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.
Recent Trump administration actions are setting the stage for a measles resurgence, experts fear.
Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.
Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the retired Yankees player Brett Gardner, died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation in Costa Rica. Here’s why the gas is so...
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.
She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.
In addition to reductions at agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations, The Times has learned.
A growing body of research suggests that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive decline.
A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.
The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked...
The Eli Lilly drug caused a major drop in the blood levels of Lp(a), but further research is needed to show that it will prevent heart attacks and strokes.
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
