Health

The contestants on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” were stumped in the fall when asked about the new “3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention” in the United States, which debuted last July.“What is...

As the coronavirus pandemic dragged through its second year, an increasing number of American families were so desperate to get help for depressed or suicidal children that they brought them to emergency...

Medical school curriculums, for example, include erroneous claims that Black women’s nerve endings are “less sensitive” and require less anesthesia, and that Black women’s blood coagulates faster than that of white women,...

The release of Prime, a drink brand founded by the YouTube personality and boxer Logan Paul, had British teenagers lining up for hours outside grocery stores on its release date in December....

Why It Matters: Deer could be a source of new variants.There is no evidence that deer play a major role in spreading the virus to humans, but the transmission of the virus...

For generations, our society has vacillated about how best to heal people who experienced terrible things in childhood.Should these memories be unearthed, allowing their destructive power to dissipate? Should they be gently...

In recent years, private equity firms have been gobbling up physician practices to form powerful medical groups across the country, according to a new report released Monday.In more than a quarter of...

When Dr. Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist, meets new patients at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, he talks with them about the usual...

Yadira Salcedo was born in Mexico to parents who did not know how to swim. As a child, she nearly drowned when she waded too deep in a backyard pool.Now a mother...

Sue Johanson, the blunt, bawdy and beloved Canadian sex educator and host of the long-running television call-in program “Sunday Night Sex Show” and its American counterpart, “Talk Sex With Sue Johanson,” died...