Health

The Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before they undergo sensitive examinations — like pelvis and prostate exams — especially...

By the Numbers: A rising fatality rate.The illness is caused by infection with a bacterium called Neisseria meningitidis. Last year, 422 cases of invasive meningococcal disease were reported in the United States,...

Ashlee Wiseman, a waitress at a Sizzler in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was 10 weeks pregnant when a nurse phoned with crushing news: a test of fetal DNA in her blood had found...

On Aug. 21, 2017, Kiki Smith’s teenage sons giddily prepared to watch the partial solar eclipse in Rochester, N.Y. As Ms. Smith listened to their chatter, she felt excluded.“I felt very alone,”...

A troubled heart pump that has now been linked to 49 deaths and dozens of injuries worldwide will be allowed to remain in use, despite the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to...

To Dr. Theresa Cheng, the scene was “apocalyptic.”She had come to Valley of the Moon, an open-air waiting site in San Diego’s rural Mountain Empire, to provide volunteer medical care to asylum...

Killer whales are some of the most cosmopolitan creatures on the planet, swimming through every one of the world’s oceans. They patrol the frigid waters near both poles and periodically pop up...

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed inclined on Tuesday to reject a bid to sharply limit access to abortion pills.During about 90 minutes of argument, most of the justices seemed doubtful...

A highly fatal form of avian influenza, or bird flu, has been confirmed in U.S. cattle in Texas and Kansas, the Department of Agriculture announced on Monday.It is the first time that...

The Food and Drug Administration has greenlit a new medicine to protect some of the people most at risk from Covid.The agency granted emergency use authorization for Pemgarda, a monoclonal antibody infusion,...