Reproduction

How Medication Abortion with RU-486/Mifepristone Works

A step-by-step look at how these drugs end pregnancy

Megha Satyanarayana and Mesa Schumacher | Opinion

Health Care

New Home Test Can Tell If You Have the Flu or COVID

Flu and COVID symptoms are easily confused. A new home test—the first for flu—tells them apart in minutes

Allison Parshall

Reproduction

Mice with Two Fathers? Researchers Develop Egg Cells from Male Mice

The research offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which two men can have biological children together, but any human applications remain in the distant future

Meghan Bartels

Vaccines

RSV Vaccines Are Coming At Last: Your Health, Quickly, Episode 2

A vaccine pioneer tells us that shots to protect against RSV—a dangerous virus for babies and older people—are finally nearing approval.

Josh Fischman, Tanya Lewis and Tulika Bose

Public Health

How to Avoid the Dreaded Norovirus

The so-called winter vomiting disease has been closing schools and hitting long-term care facilities this year. Here’s what you should know

Lauren J. Young