At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.

Dr. Luch berated herself for not having thought to test the boy a day earlier, when she might have saved him if she had treated him for influenza.But the ...

After 30 years as one of England’s top pediatricians, Dr. Hilary Cass was hoping to begin her retirement by learning to play the saxophone.Instead, she took ...

Overdose deaths in the United States declined slightly last year, the first decrease in five years, according to preliminary federal data released ...

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 ...