Health

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.On New Year’s Day in 1922, a scientific paper in...

In late 2019, Molly Stuart’s contract ended at the community college where she worked. “Normally, I’d just get a new job, but then Covid happened,” she said. So she collected unemployment for...

Dr. Colin McCord, a surgeon credited with saving countless lives by championing a draconian ban on smoking in New York City and limits on trans fats in processed foods, galvanizing improved health...

A wave of illness hit New York City, with little warning. Soon, it was sending the death rate rocketing upward.It was 1834. New York City was just expanding its first railroad line. The penny...

Bronze Age humans have been credited with a number of civilizational advancements: the invention of irrigation, the wheel, writing systems and the ability to forge weapons and tools from the durable metal...

One of the first things she noticed was how she had to keep clearing her throat. Everyone does it every now and then, but for her, a healthy woman in her early...

Chinese government scientists on Wednesday published a long-awaited study about a market in the city of Wuhan, acknowledging that animals susceptible to the coronavirus were there around the time the virus emerged....

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration plans to allow older and immunocompromised Americans to get a second updated coronavirus booster shot in the near future, an acknowledgment of the virus’s continuing...

For decades, scientific studies suggested moderate drinking was better for most people’s health than not drinking at all, and could even help them live longer.A new analysis of more than 40 years...

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." – Aldous Huxley Two years ago, when I decided to take up swimming...