The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public…
Trump Administration Delays Plan to Limit Pricey Bandages
Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” reached $10 billion last year. A leading seller made a large donation to President Trump’s…
Pig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified…
How to Stop Stressing About Your Schedule
Hint: It doesn’t involve “inbox zero.”For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing a simple experiment: I leave for appointments…
Can a ‘Sleep Divorce’ Improve Your Sex Life?
Therapists and couples say that sometimes a “sleep divorce” can revive a relationship.When Natalie and Shane Plummer moved into separate…
Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut
Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages.Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds…
‘The Pitt’ Captures the Real Overcrowding Crisis in E.R.’s
From the “chairs” to the hallway medicine, the show’s depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings…
My Therapist Fired Me After I Confessed to a Sexual Dream About Her
She said I could tell her anything.I am a veteran with PTSD, depression, anxiety and marital discord. The Veterans Affairs…
5 Science-Backed Longevity Hacks That Don’t Cost a Fortune
You don’t need a $40,000 gym membership to live a longer, healthier life.Private $20,000 health clinics offering genome sequencing and…
One-Third of Maternal Deaths Occur Long After Delivery, Study Finds
Pregnancy-related mortality has risen sharply, and doctors have overlooked a particularly dangerous period: from six weeks to one year after…