Health

Health By Isabella Cueto

Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans should be screened at lower BMI for diabetes, study says

Health By Helen Branswell

CDC investigating 109 unusual hepatitis cases in kids in outbreak

Health By Miriam Shuchman

Surgeons navigating their pregnancies see a bleak picture getting a bit brighter

Health By Helen Branswell

FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, citing clotting risk

Exclusive By Nicholas Florko

Prisons didn’t prescribe much Paxlovid or other Covid-19 treatments, even when they got the drugs

Health By Carla K. Johnson — Associated Press

Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates

Health By Helen Branswell

WHO: Nearly 15 million died as a result of Covid-19 in first two years of pandemic

Health By Lev Facher

‘Lives could be at stake’: CDC’s Walensky warns of dire stakes surrounding abortion access

Health By Helen Branswell

With usual suspects ruled out, disease detectives try to crack mystery of viral hepatitis cases in kids

Exclusive By Rick Berke

Gates Foundation CEO has ‘zero expectation’ that Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair after divorce

Health By Megan Molteni

More uniformly infectious, more treatable, more genetically predictable: How coronavirus is getting closer to flu

Biotech By Jonathan Wosen

Early cancer-detection market heats up as Guardant Health launches colon cancer test

Biotech By Matthew Herper

Paxlovid’s failure as a preventative measure raises questions, but doctors still back it as a therapeutic

Health By Helen Branswell

Colorado man’s positive test for bird flu puts 10 people under health surveillance

Health By Helen Branswell

CDC reports first human H5 bird flu infection in U.S.

Health By Allison DeAngelis

Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’

Health By Lauran Neergaard — Associated Press

Moderna seeks to be first with Covid shots for children younger than 6

Health By Andrew Joseph

How climate change could drive animal movements — and threaten more viral spillovers

Health By Megan Molteni

Covid’s circling the White House. What are the risks to someone like Biden? 

Health By Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney

With Omicron, nearly 60% in U.S. have been infected during pandemic

Health By Isabella Cueto

Daily aspirin offers little to no benefit for most adults trying to prevent heart disease, new report says

Health By Helen Branswell

Global coalition seeks $4.8 billion for polio eradication initiative

Health By Matthew Herper

Biden administration starts Covid treatment push, focusing on Pfizer’s Paxlovid

Health By Helen Branswell

Experts fear U.S. may default to annual Covid boosters without sufficient data

Health By Azma Hasina Mulundika

Majority of family members of Covid patients treated in the ICU report PTSD symptoms

Health By Troy Farah

There’s a new crop of treatments for ADHD in kids. Are they any better?

Health By Eric Boodman

‘Without a word for what we know’: The unfathomable loss of a million U.S. Covid deaths

Health By Helen Branswell

WHO says 12 countries have reported unusual cases of hepatitis in kids

Health By Helen Branswell

N.C. becomes second U.S. state to report unusual cases of hepatitis in kids