A genetic analysis sheds light on when the outbreak began, how the virus spread and where it may be going.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/bird-flu-cows-mutations.html
Professor Young’s experiments with prairie voles revealed what poets never could: how the brain processes that fluttering feeling in the heart.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/science/larry-young-dead.html
All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html
Thousands of Americans believe they experienced rare but serious side effects. But confirming a link is a difficult task.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccine-side-effects-takeaways.html
Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One of them told of childhood abuse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/health/robert-b-oxnam-dead.html
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/science/orangutan-wound-plant-treatment.html
The outbreak linked to shelled organic walnuts distributed by Gibson Farms has sickened 12 people and hospitalized seven in California and Washington State, federal officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/business/walnuts-recall-ecoli-whole-foods.html
But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/health/bird-flu-milk-cows.html
A data analytics firm has helped big health insurers cut payments to doctors, raising concerns about possible price fixing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/multiplan-health-insurance-price-fixing.html
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/health/united-health-cyberattack-senate.html
Women at risk for extreme high blood pressure should take a daily baby aspirin. But their doctors don’t always tell them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/health/pregnancy-preeclampsia-aspirin.html
“Indian Idol,” the Hindi version of “American Idol,” is a pleasant distraction from life’s more trying predicaments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/magazine/indian-idol-cancer.html
When Barbra Streisand posted a comment on social media about the actress Melissa McCarthy, it prompted a public conversation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/style/ozempic-barbra-streisand-melissa-mccarthy.html
The move kicks off a lengthy rule-making process and could amount to a major change in federal policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/politics/justice-department-reclassify-marijuana.html
The 51 locations, next to Supercenters, proved too costly to be profitable, the retailer said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/business/walmart-health-centers.html
Some researchers said the advice did not go far enough. The panel also declined to recommend extra scans for women with dense breast tissue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/health/breast-cancer-mammography-ultrasound.html
A new study bolsters existing research suggesting that exercise can protect against anxiety, depression and attention challenges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/health/adolescents-exercise-mental-health.html
Amanda Montei, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, spoke to more than 30 married people for whom sex is not essential.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/insider/sexless-marriage.html
GNC and the Vitamin Shoppe are redesigning displays and taking other steps to appeal to people who are taking or are interested in drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/business/ozempic-wegovy-gnc-vitamin-shoppe.html
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.
Thousands of people with sleep apnea and other illnesses had sued the company, claiming flawed devices were harming them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/health/cpap-breathing-devices-philips-settlement.html