Richard “Rick” Slayman, who made history at age 62 as the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died about two months after ...

Back Story: Aspirin reduces the odds of certain complications.The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an influential panel of experts that issues national ...

In the 10 years since the drugmaker Gilead debuted a revolutionary treatment for hepatitis C, a wave of new therapies have been used to cure millions of ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the sale of an antibiotic for the treatment of urinary tract infections in women, giving U.S. health ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday said that it would begin requiring dairy cows moving across state lines to be tested for bird flu, which has been ...

Some Context: Experts say bad situations can often be reversed with treatment.Both mental health and drug addiction crises have been roiling the country, ...

Scotland’s National Health Service has stopped all new prescriptions of puberty-blocking drugs and other hormone treatments for minors, citing a sweeping ...

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, a team of scientists called on the World Health Organization to acknowledge that the disease could spread through ...

A hug, a handshake, a therapeutic massage. A newborn lying on a mother’s bare chest.Physical touch can buoy well-being and lessen pain, depression and ...

Over the past decade, R.I.P. Medical Debt has grown from a tiny nonprofit group that received less than $3,000 in donations to a multimillion-dollar force ...

The 160-year-old Arizona abortion ban that was upheld on Tuesday by the state’s highest court was among a wave of anti-abortion laws propelled by some ...

The National Health Service in England started restricting gender treatments for children this month, making it the fifth European country to limit the ...