Health Care

This ban applies to various tobacco products and also seeks to beef up existing laws that restrict the sale and marketing of vapes to children

Immune system overreactions may be the true culprit of cardiac illness—and lifesaving drugs can calm them down

Your kidneys silently filter 150 quarts of blood every single day — but what happens when they stop working?

New gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet syndrome, a rare and often fatal seizure condition

What a worrying forecast says about women’s heart health, what’s happening with NASA’s Artemis II moon mission and why female reindeer have antlers

Researchers sequenced the genomes of tumors from almost 500 domestic cats and found remarkable parallels with human and dog cancers

People who help sick, aging loved ones are at risk for physical illness themselves. There may be ways to improve their resilience

When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk

A recent analysis showed the rate of uninsured children in the U.S. grew from 2022 to 2024. Experts say this could lead to more pediatric cancer deaths

Journalist Marla Broadfoot discusses zuranolone, a drug that may help people whose postpartum depression hasn’t responded to traditional antidepressants.

“It is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says one expert

The CDC this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say has no basis in evidence