Health

The number of American babies who died before their first birthdays rose last year, significantly increasing the nation’s infant mortality rate for the first time in two decades, according to provisional figures...

A 58-year-old man with heart failure who received a new heart from a genetically modified pig died on Monday, nearly six weeks after receiving the pig organ, University of Maryland Medical Center...

If childhood obesity is an ‘epidemic,’ how far should doctors go to treat it?

Why It Matters: A disease with a toll that is difficult to imagine.An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, most of whom have African ancestry. Sickle cell...

In medicine, the cautionary tales about the unintended effects of artificial intelligence are already legendary.There was the program meant to predict when patients would develop sepsis, a deadly bloodstream infection, that triggered...

Federal health officials are advising consumers to stop using more than two dozen over-the-counter eyedrops products because of a potential risk of eye infection that may lead to partial vision loss or...

The City University of New York is pausing its investigation into a faculty member, an Alzheimer’s researcher accused of misconduct, the university said in a statement on Friday.Studies by the neuroscientist, Hoau-Yan...

Dr. Apoena Ribeiro is a pediatric dentist and microbiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She’s also a parent.When her daughter was little and growing up in Brazil, Dr....

Donlin M. Long, a pioneering neurosurgeon whose brain research helped millions of patients manage pain and who collaborated on the invention of an implantable pump to deliver insulin to people with diabetes,...

Why the Case MattersIt’s unusual for so many states to come together to sue a tech giant for consumer harms. The coordination shows states are prioritizing the issue of children and online...