Health and Wellness | Opinion

The president is a classic aging case playing out for the country to watch.

We’re seeing what a modern disinformation operation run by the U.S. looks like. It’s not pretty.

Some kids are unable to get the care they need because of a shortage of pediatricians, and the problem could get worse.

It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.

We live in an age when people can live longer and healthier even with significant health conditions. What does this mean for future presidents?

Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.

We had a chance to treat sex categories in sports with curiosity and compassion instead of condemnation. We still can.

The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.

Glenn Kramon discusses the coincidences that led him to realize how critical immigration was to his recent cancer battle.

Here’s who needs to worry right now.

Hospital outpatient departments, or HOPDs, are encouraging a surprise scourge on medical costs. It’s patients who bear the burden.

It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people.

The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.

A man reflects on his mother’s life with Alzheimer’s and what it has taught him as he faces his own diagnosis with the disease.

How harm reduction can work in a red state.

Norms on attendance have changed, but it’s about more than Covid-era school closings.

The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.

The virus is changing.

Rescheduling the drug is the beginning of the end of marijuana criminalization. Now we need to think about regulation.

The First Amendment looms large in lower court cases that may find their way to the Supreme Court.

We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.

An interview with America’s top public health official about new challenges and the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Involuntary treatment too often requires a court order.

The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.

We need to rethink the policy of preserving families, seemingly at all costs.

The near-impossible challenge of parenting an adult with severe mental illness.

Now is our chance to rethink the centuries-old stories we’ve told about obesity and weight loss.

Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.

The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.

We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.

The effects of semaglutide drugs won’t be just cosmetic.

Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?

To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.

A number of new tech companies want to solve the opioid crisis with algorithms. It’s a flawed and potentially harmful proposition.

The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.

A new product for preventing cavities doesn’t have F.D.A. approval or promising clinical trials, but it does have customers.

A simple yet radical approach in Asia is equipping medical patients and their loved ones with the knowledge they need to heal themselves.

Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.

The term creates doubt about a biological fact when there shouldn’t be any.

A regulated market for donations could help end the shortage of these organs for transplant.