Health

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...

A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts, who warn that a protracted scarcity of the drug could worsen the U.S....

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, and Medicare said it would cover much of its high cost, laying the foundation for widespread use...

“Come in out of the sun,” the woman shouted to her 80-year-old husband. “You’re turning red!” The man reluctantly trudged toward the house. It was late afternoon — the end of a...

People with private Medicare coverage may not be getting the mental health services they need because they cannot find a psychiatrist within their plan’s network, according to a new study. More than...

Most Americans have had one or more shots of the flu and Covid vaccines. New this year are the first shots to protect older adults from respiratory syncytial virus, a lesser-known threat...