Health

Sam Runyon navigated to the house by memory as she reviewed her patient’s file, a “problem list” of medications and chronic diseases that went on for several pages. Sam, a 45-year-old nurse,...

Tea leaves pull heavy metals from water, significantly lowering the amount of lead and other dangerous compounds that people may be unknowingly drinking, a new study found.Recent research has highlighted potential applications...

The Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which had seemed to be in retreat, has claimed a new victim: a 4-year-old boy who died on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by...

Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet members on Wednesday that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four...

Kim Allen doesn’t like clutter. But when it comes to some of her most sentimental items, she finds it hard to let go.Near the top of the list is a ceramic creature...

Organ transplant waiting lists are designed to fairly distribute organs to the sickest patients in order of priority. Or so we thought. A New York Times investigation shows that the list leaves...

A panel of scientific experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy — and has been the target of criticism from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — learned...

A child has died of measles in West Texas, the first known death from an outbreak of the disease that is spreading in the state and in neighboring New Mexico, officials said...

Dr. Bryant Lin stood before his class at Stanford in September, likely one of the last he would ever teach.Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had been diagnosed with Stage...

The country’s largest manufacturer of abortion pills is wading into the first major legal battle over abortion of President Trump’s second term.The company, GenBioPro, on Tuesday asked a Texas court to add...