Health

Jump to:Cambodian officials placed posters in Prey Veng village to warn against the dangers of bird flu.Credit...Cambodia Ministry of Health, via Associated PressCambodia has reported two cases of bird flu infection in...

As she worked to untangle her knots, she did a lot of searching. She was an editor for a literary humor magazine called Opium. She tried to write a novel. (She’s still...

Among wealthy industrialized nations, the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate. According to the W.H.O., the rate almost doubled between 2000 and 2020, rising to 21 deaths per 100,000 live...

Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died on Wednesday at his home on the...

Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting.One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush...

Some men have told her, flat-out, that they would never date someone with herpes, but what bothers her, too, are the ones who say, “I’m so sorry this happened to you.”“I don’t...

Lynn Rivers, a Democrat from Michigan, opened up about her diagnosis with bipolar disorder during a radio call-in show when she first ran for Congress. Her opponents had been hinting she had...

“There are times when my wards look more like a battlefield than a pediatric unit,” Dr. Heagarty once wrote.But if caring for Harlem’s children was a battle, she was an unrelenting fighter.She...

The Spanish government on Thursday approved a law allowing people 16 and older to change their legally registered gender without undergoing psychological and medical evaluations to show gender dysphoria, becoming one of...

About one-fourth of respondents in Gallup’s poll said they put off care last year for what they considered a “serious” condition. When Margaret Bell, 71, found that her cancer had returned four...