Health

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...

Where and when did the Black Death originate? The question has been asked for centuries and led to heated debate among historians.Now, a group of researchers reports that it has found the...

And just like that, after four years of painstaking work, Leibowitz, de Vries and the rest of their group were being called out as traitors by peers and the community they sought...

Cats, so often, are a mystery, even to those that know them best. Why do they sleep so much? Why do they want your full attention one minute, none the next? How...

This article is part of Upstart, a series on young companies harnessing new science and technology.Vijay Ravindran has always been fascinated with technology. At Amazon, he oversaw the team that built and...

The disease can vary in severity, but for some, it can be life-altering — a total loss of body hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, even nose hair and hair in the ears....

The antiparasite drug ivermectin does not reduce the time needed to recover from Covid, according to a large study posted online Sunday. It is the largest of several clinical trials to show...

If you’re one of the millions of Americans who have already had Covid-19, you may be wondering how long you will have immunity from the coronavirus. Earlier in the pandemic, most people...

A veterinarian in Thailand likely contracted the coronavirus from an infected pet cat last year, researchers concluded in a new study. It is the first documented case of suspected cat-to-human transmission, although...