Health

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...

Over the last decade, researchers have strengthened the link between sleep and heart health, specifically. Last summer, the American Heart Association added sleep duration to its checklist for measuring cardiovascular health. One...

Ticks that transmit Lyme disease, for example, are dramatically expanding their range in the northern United States. Bats are also on the move, and with them diseases that they transmit, such as rabies.In...

Some doctors say that however reasonable guidelines may seem, their cumulative burden causes “constant frustration” to medical practice.

By the end of the 12-week study, those given naltrexone reported bingeing less frequently and consuming less alcohol than those who had been given a placebo, a change that lasted for up...