Health

Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that...

Hospital and emergency room patients diagnosed with cannabis use disorder — defined as an inability to stop using cannabis even when the drug is causing harm — died at almost three times...

A colleague approached Ernesto Di Maio, a materials scientist in Naples, Italy, and an expert in plastic foams, with a blunt suggestion: “You should do something cooler.” The colleague had a project...

Ernest Drucker, a pioneering public-health researcher who approached drug addiction with compassion, invigorated needle-exchange programs to stem the AIDS epidemic and diagnosed the destructive impact of what he called a “plague” of...

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. Subsequent waivers...

As the five-year anniversary approaches of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times is interested in exploring the extent to which life has changed. (We also...

The coronavirus pandemic has shifted grieving for many Americans, as more than a million people died from Covid, a figure that is very likely undercounted. The New York Times is interested in...

Q: Sometimes I feel really anxious the day after I drink. Can alcohol cause a panic attack?The short answer is yes.Panic attacks — sudden waves of overwhelming fear and apprehension, along with...

This winter’s Covid wave in the United States has been the gentlest to date, in a welcome reprieve.According to wastewater data aggregated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not only...

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention purged from its website thousands of pages that included terms such as “transgender,” “L.G.B.T.” and “pregnant person,” to comply with an executive order...