Health

The White House on Wednesday designated a common animal tranquilizer that is increasingly mixed into street fentanyl as an “emerging drug threat,” a formal move that requires the administration to create strategies...

PAGE 11Women who have aborted a child — especially through chemical abortion drugs that necessitate the woman seeing her aborted child once it passes — often experience shame, regret, anxiety, depression, drug...

An order by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone did not apply to the second drug used in the typical two-medication abortion regimen, misoprostol.For now, mifepristone...

On the evening of Jan. 15, 2021, in a remote Arizona desert town, Christine Benton saved a life.She and her husband, Brian Benton, were traveling the country in a recreational vehicle and...

Senior executives of more than 250 pharmaceutical and biotech companies on Monday issued a scorching condemnation of a ruling by a federal judge that invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval...

RALEIGH, N.C. — People who watch politics in North Carolina say that Phil Berger, a Republican who calls himself a fiscal conservative and a “social traditionalist,” is the most powerful man in...

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...