Health

The latest developments affecting patients and practitioners

Four mini-pig piglets stand around

Health

A nonprofit biotech venture is betting on pig skin to help burn victims with first-ever clinical trial

By Kate Sheridan

Family & doctor communication

Hospitals

A new way to curb harmful medical errors: talk more to patients and families

By Megan Thielking

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Goma, Congo

Health

As Ebola outbreak spreads in Congo, concern grows over supplies of experimental vaccine

By Helen Branswell

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Drug price jump

Health

‘A loss for the rest of us’: An FDA approval is a boon for a drug maker, but could come at a major cost for patients

By Meghana Keshavan

Heroin

Health

U.S. life expectancy declines again in sobering ‘wake-up call’

By Associated Press

Health

Germs on a journey: How infectious diseases become unwelcome companions during air travel

Hospital computers

Health

Doctors want ‘big data’ insights to improve health care. But America’s scattershot medical records make it hard to go big

By Kate Sheridan

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Video

‘I shouldn’t have to go beg’: A protest over insulin prices is seen as a fight for life

By Hyacinth Empinado

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FDA Headquarters

Health

FDA plans overhaul of decades-old medical device system

By Associated Press

Genetic Frontiers Gene Edited Babies

In the Lab

Chinese researcher claims birth of first gene-edited babies — twin girls

By Associated Press

Health

Medical devices for pain, other conditions have caused more than 80,000 deaths since 2008

By Associated Press

Children Ebola Beni

Health

Ebola in Congo now infecting newborn babies, U.N. says

By Associated Press

Turkey Salmonella Q And A

Health

Why a salmonella outbreak shouldn’t ruin your Thanksgiving

By Associated Press

The contents of an overdose rescue kit

Health

Pharmacists have been called on to make naloxone widely available. But do they know how to use it?

Exhaust pipe

Health

Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy or early life linked to autism diagnosis

By Karen Weintraub

UPMC liver transplant commercial

Hospitals

Hospitals’ national TV ads build brands for transplants and other high-priced services

By Shefali Luthra — Kaiser Health News

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - in Congo

Health

WHO director-general: Violence in DRC is allowing Ebola to spread

By Helen Branswell

Congo Ebola Isolation

Health

Ebola response suffers another setback, as WHO evacuates some staff after attack

By Helen Branswell

Verily Tech

Business

After five years, Verily shelves project to create glucose-sensing contact lens

By Rebecca Robbins

High School Football

Health

NFL awards Boston Children’s Hospital $14.7 million to study brain injury

By Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

Nick Leschly - Bluebird Bio

Health

As new therapies arrive, pressure builds on the health care system to figure out how to pay for them

By Andrew Joseph

Congo Ebola - information leaflet

Health

Merck takes key step toward approval of experimental Ebola vaccine

By Helen Branswell

Sean Parker speaks in Philly

Business

Sean Parker: Health care’s big breakthroughs aren’t going to come out of Google or Amazon

By Rebecca Robbins

Enterovirus D-68

Health

CDC investigating burst of possible new cases of polio-like paralysis, as mystery persists

By Helen Branswell

Narcan at pharmacy

Health

Some pharmacies fail to offer easy access to naloxone, or to stock it, despite anti-opioid initiatives

By Andrew Joseph

Fecal Transplants FDA

Health

Patients on checkpoint inhibitors sometimes develop severe colitis. Could fecal transplants help?

By Megan Thielking

Beni Ebola medical treatment

Health

A pivotal day in world’s response to Ebola nears: the launch of a clinical trial

By Helen Branswell

MORE Red Blood Cells

In the Lab

Generic arthritis drug comes up short against inflammation in heart disease

By Elizabeth Cooney

Gonorrhea

Health

Experimental treatment appears effective against gonorrhea in small study

By Helen Branswell