More than 500 women claimed that they had received unnecessary operations. Hospital leaders said they were not aware of a doctor’s misconduct.

The United States is expected to adopt the vaccine schedule used by Denmark, a much smaller country with universal health care.

Ms. Brosseau says mental illness has made her life unbearable. She wants a medically assisted death. Even her psychiatrists are split over whether she should have one.

When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In northern Cameroon, health workers scrambled to protect children in one last rainy season.

Recent research highlights that the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.

The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.

She went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for their marriage.

Brendan Costello was a cleareyed writer who might have found this article a bit treacly. Such is the cost of being a good guy.

New research suggests a surprising link between cheese and dementia risk. Here’s what a long-term study found and what it really means.

Sudden surges of anguish can accompany intense mourning. That’s not unusual, experts say, and sometimes even helpful.

The measles outbreak in the United States is now in its 11th month, with almost 2,000 cases. The Timmons family were some of the first people to get sick.

In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects.

The term has been popularized on social media to describe numbness and low motivation. Experts offer ways to break out of these feelings.

The shift would mean fewer shots recommended for children. But a Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting “crazier and crazier in public health.”

The companies agreed to sell most of their drugs to Medicaid at the prices they charge in European countries and to sell drugs directly to consumers through a planned TrumpRx website.

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients.

The agency’s high-level turnover and conflicting policy decisions on drug oversight have fueled concerns about the leadership of Dr. Marty Makary.

Proposed new rules would pull all federal financing from hospitals that continue to provide gender treatments for adolescents.

Familial feuds have ripple effects, experts say.

The American Academy of Pediatrics had called the department’s policies “irresponsible and purposefully misleading” and joined a lawsuit against its vaccine policy.