Health

It’s a moment many parents have anxiously awaited for months: Children younger than age 5 are now eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus, among the last Americans to qualify.Without access to vaccines,...

Scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began meeting on Saturday to decide whether the benefits of Covid vaccines outweigh the risks for children under 5, the last Americans...

Something was wrong with the foxes. That was what callers to the Dane County Humane Society in Wisconsin kept saying in April, as they reported fox kits, or young foxes, behaving in...

Black women represented just under 10 percent of the 208,587 uterine cancer cases diagnosed in the United States between 2000 and 2017, but they made up almost 18 percent of the nearly...

For Jacqueline Almeida, next week cannot come soon enough.She has watched friends roll their eyes when she asked to meet them outdoors. She has tried unsuccessfully to convince her sister to vaccinate...

Almost exactly 18 months after the first coronavirus vaccine was authorized for adults, and after months of scientific hiccups, the youngest Americans may finally get their shots.Over discussions scheduled for Friday and...

A closely watched clinical trial of a potential Alzheimer’s drug failed to prevent or slow cognitive decline, another disappointment in the long and challenging effort to find solutions for the disease.The decade-long...

Abbott Nutrition, which worsened a baby formula shortage in the United States when it temporarily shut down a Michigan plant in February because of the presence of bacteria, said it had again...

A vaccination site in March in Los Angeles.Credit...Alisha Jucevic for The New York TimesOutside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend that the agency authorize the...

At Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, phone recordings tell callers that abortion remains legal and accessible, but some have stopped scheduling abortions.A banner at the top of the website for Planned...