In financial filings, Casey Means stated that she would liquidate holdings in companies that sell personal devices, supplements, tobacco and tech.

Immigrant detainees are not receiving proper mental health care, lawyers and advocacy groups say, and reports of suicide attempts are persistent.

The committee, whose members were appointed by the health secretary and include vaccine skeptics, will meet on Thursday to review recommendations for several shots.

The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles.

Regulators sent about 100 warning letters this week to drug advertisers, including to Hims & Hers, a major online provider of weight-loss drugs.

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.”

“Fit for Life,” which she wrote with her husband, was a best seller in the 1980s promoting good health ahead of weight loss. But doctors were critical.

After climbing in the business world, she received a dire diagnosis, spurring her to found leading nonprofit groups to promote early detection and research.

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or A.N.E., can result from influenza or other infections, including Covid-19.

The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S....

The health secretary has begun a full-on assault against vaccines but has taken a more restrained approach to pesticides and unhealthy foods, also MAHA priorities.

The administration is proposing a return to a 1990s-era policy that kept most drug ads off TV. That could dent the revenues of drugmakers and major networks.

Behind the scenes, major pharmaceutical companies and Trump-tied billionaires are furiously lobbying in opposite directions over proposed anti-China measures.

The report, which follows a draft leaked last month, demonstrates both the ambitions and limits of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.

If the results are promising, veterinarians hope to give the shots to wild Hawaiian monk seals, which are endangered.

Scientists cannot say for certain, but new research suggests that different people’s brains respond similarly when looking at a particular hue.

By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.

Neurologists are exploring medications that would help the brain recover after a stroke or traumatic injury.

Studies over the last decade of acetaminophen use in pregnancy — including a recent scientific review — have yielded mixed results but have not found a causal connection.

The upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines will instead be influenced by a competing study, favored by industry, which found that moderate alcohol consumption was healthy.

Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.

During often tense exchanges, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his positions on Covid vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and autism.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York plans to authorize pharmacists to provide the vaccine to almost anyone who wants it without a prescription.

Two former agency leaders said the administration’s “hostility” toward vaccines had spread to the agency’s top ranks.

The health secretary fired the original committee members in June, replacing them with some who have been critical of vaccines.

Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of...

The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.

After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low, some employees said.

Patients are flooding medical practices with reports of the telltale signs of Covid and questions about whether they will be able to get vaccinated.

After she lost her son to an overdose, Serena Fallon went on a quest to hold someone accountable for his death.

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the agency, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health.

State laws and regulatory chaos are driving the country’s largest pharmacy chains to require prescriptions or hold back altogether unless a C.D.C. panel acts.

The selection of Jim O’Neill, a former Silicon Valley executive, drew objections from Democrats, who noted his lack of medical or scientific training.

A network dedicated to early phase trials of treatments for children with brain cancer will be phased out.

The director, Susan Monarez, declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge...

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is said to have demanded that the director, Susan Monarez, either quit or be fired. Her lawyers say she won’t resign.

Family estrangement can bring up big, difficult emotions, and it’s not always about parents and children.

The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock.

For some cultures, the practice of cranial deformation may have offered individuals a path to privilege later in their lives.

Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results.

San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug use.

Health issues prevented the women, who were in their 80s, from climbing out, officials said. They became unresponsive after overheating and developing hyperthermia.

It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to protect yourself.

President Trump’s planned pharmaceutical tariffs threaten to hit many of the most common and well-known drugs that Americans take.

More Americans are choosing burials in which everything is biodegradable.

Panel members have been given a broad mandate, despite pleas from C.D.C. employees asking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop spreading misinformation.

The conflict that has put rebels in control of much of the east of the country has left victims with no legal recourse and dismantled many of the clinics...

Manufacturing in Ireland has long helped many American drug companies pay lower taxes. But that strategy was designed for a world without President Trump’s tariffs.

These coaches help professional athletes achieve their goals through mental preparation — and they could help you, too.

To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia.

A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why.

Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China and other places that have not seen it before.

The administration has pledged to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the V.A.’s greatest housing success story.

Simply giving money to poor families at certain times reduced deaths among young children by nearly half, a new study found.

Medicaid pays for most of the in-home care that lets disabled Americans live independently. Will coming cuts put that care in jeopardy?

The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them into smoke without masks or warnings about the risks.

The U.S. Forest Service has been sending out crews to fight fires without the recommended masks for decades. Hannah Dreier, a New York Times investigative reporter, reveals the dangerous...

While thousands of people are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year, deaths are uncommon, according to the authorities.

The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

A draft of an upcoming White House report on children’s health was not as harsh toward the agriculture industry as some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies had hoped.

Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning institution in the United States.

Anti-vaccine groups had sought the revival of the task force.

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication.

In its campaign against “woke” science, the N.I.H. has closed down studies and programs focused on the gaps between racial and socioeconomic groups.

The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.

The former Texas governor and Trump energy secretary has now dedicated his life to promoting the powerful psychedelic ibogaine.

Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal officials may withdraw an endorsement for the vaccine in younger children.

While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of the secretary’s agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.

The president posted talking points provided by one firm that donated millions, and his administration delayed a change on coverage of pricey bandages that could have hurt the company...

An ancient hybrid of tomatoes and potato-like plants may have given rise to the modern spud, a new study suggests.

The source of the illness has not been conclusively identified more than a week after people began getting sick.

That kind of shot was first used during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the health secretary has been sharply critical of the technology.

Researchers at King’s College London will track the experiences of up to 3,000 children and teenagers who are being treated by Britain’s health service.

In unpublished research, researchers found live virus on equipment, in wastewater and in the air in so-called milking parlors.

Trisomy 18 is normally fatal within weeks of birth. But some parents are getting more time — with surgeries, luck and an incredible amount of effort.

The new report paints a sobering picture of immunizations as infectious diseases like measles surge across the United States.

Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying.

The administration has not put forward a clear legal authority to compel drugmakers to reduce their prices.

Four radioactive wasp nests may indicate previously undetected environmental contamination at the decades-old Savannah River Site. Here’s what to know.

Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment.

Like many Americans, Republicans believe that insurance should be tied to employment — and increasingly they don’t think it’s essential to have at all.

The device stimulates the vagus nerve, signaling the body to tamp down the inflammation that contributes to the disease.

The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier. Experts raised concerns about privacy and security.

The agency’s new leader must contend with reduced budgets, mass layoffs, political tumult and a boss determined to reshape public health.

As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.

After turning down several new drugs and restricting use of another, Dr. Vinay Prasad drew the ire of the right-wing influencer Laura Loomer and others.

Federal officials said a psychoactive ingredient in kratom had been refined and added to supplements that could quickly become addictive.

Many pharmaceutical products made in Europe will face a 15 percent tariff, pinching manufacturers and potentially leading to higher drug prices.

As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional needs.

Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small percentage of vaccines, that has been falsely linked to autism.

His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B, diabetes and more.

A 12-year-old boy died last week in South Carolina from a rare brain-eating amoeba he contracted after swimming in a local reservoir, a lawyer for the boy’s family said...

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, offering a more precise estimate of a patient’s risk. Yet the test remains underused.

On Thursday, the giant health care conglomerate announced that it had “proactively reached out” to the Justice Department, after reports of a government investigation had surfaced.

Eight therapists share lessons they find themselves repeating again and again.

Therapists are cautious about sharing personal information. When they fall ill or die unexpectedly, the shock can be shattering.

If you’ve noticed that certain baked goods are more tolerable abroad, it may not be all in your head.

She was the last of four sisters who became a Depression-era sensation, performing onstage. Offstage, they endured abuse and were studied for their schizophrenia.

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

From land, a rip current can appear relatively calm, as a strip of water that extends out between breaking waves. Its appearance can be deceiving.

Some women’s symptoms improved quickly after taking the pill, but depression persisted in others. Doctors are trying to learn which patients benefit, and why some don’t.

An agency-sponsored forum included critics of psychiatry who believe the drugs can harm a developing fetus. Other experts said antidepressants were safe and necessary.

The White House says roughly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts won’t limit home- and community-based care. Health care experts disagree.

Under pressure from the federal government to increase organ transplants, hospitals and organ procurement organizations across the country are rushing people toward donation, and some patients have been harmed....

People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

People who can delay gratification and master their impulses thrive in life. And experts say that you can learn skills to rein in bad habits.

A little-noticed plan for an “infertility training center” signals that the administration intends to take a new approach with Title X, which has long helped low-income women access contraception.

The regulator had asked Sarepta Therapeutics to halt all shipments of its therapy, Ele­vidys, after three patients died from liver failure after taking it or a similar treatment.

The start-up, called Truemed, helps people buy meat and mattresses with money that isn’t subject to federal income tax. But does the tax break apply?

The man, 61, was in critical condition after entering an exam room in Westbury, N.Y., on Long Island, without authorization while a scan was in progress, the authorities said.

Dr. Marty Makary, the agency’s commissioner, has said too many women avoid menopause treatments because the risks have been overstated.

For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.

Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress cravings for meth and other stimulants. As use soars, hundreds of clinics are trying a radically different approach.

PEPFAR, the AIDS relief program, hasn’t operated in Russia since 2012.

Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get.

Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast “The Retrievals,” talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain during their C-sections.

Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive...

The concept, centered around healing your ‘inner child,’ is catchy. Here’s what experts have to say.

Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast “The Retrievals,” talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain during their C-sections.

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

The letters, many of which were already available online, detail why the regulators initially declined to approve some drugs. All eventually passed muster.

Doctors and hospitals were subpoenaed for private information on gender-related care for minors, the latest move by the Trump administration to stop the treatments.

An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.

The task force recommends which screenings and other preventive health measures must be covered by insurance.

The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump.

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.