Sex therapists say a character’s struggle to reach her “pinnacle” could help viewers better understand women’s sexuality.

The legislation will impose new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, giant companies like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts that oversee prescription drug benefits.

The organization’s latest guidance is a departure from the prevailing views of several other major medical organizations.

In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards.

Parasites and infections that cause blindness and other disabilities were nearly eliminated in some countries, but drug distribution to prevent and treat them was derailed in many places in 2025 after the U.S. cut aid.

Eating processed meats is a health risk as they contain high amounts of salt, sugar and fat.

A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To researchers’ surprise, no such link was found with mothers.

Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said addiction is a “spiritual disease” that calls out for the involvement of religious organizations.

Jenna Norton, a National Institutes of Health employee, has been an outspoken critic of the administration’s research cuts and has been on paid leave.

Researchers believe increasing use of cannabis may be contributing to a rise in new cases of schizophrenia and related disorders at younger ages.

Ostarine held the promise of profound medical treatments. Something unexpected happened on the way to F.D.A. approval.

While at the federal agency, he approved the laser device for eye surgery but later warned of its potential to cause harm.

A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.

How increased responsibilities and a push to be called “physician associates” are raising tensions with doctors.

On World Cancer Day next week, local non-profit PinkDrive will provide free cancer screenings to the residents of Dunoon in Cape Town.

Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it.

The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause autism.

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

Love watching an entire series in one go, unable to wait for the next episode? Research says what binge-watching addiction reveals about you.