The New York Times

Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Researchers have just added a few more to the list.

The court order, in a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana, pauses a Food and Drug Administration regulation that greatly expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

Jenna Norton had filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming that the agency leadership had retaliated against her.

Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved treatment that may prolong their lives.

With Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aiming to rein in the use of psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists are preemptively addressing how and when patients should quit taking them.

Americans can’t afford the higher health insurance premiums that resulted from Congress’s refusal to extend federal tax credits.

Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Sara Brenner is a physician, an F.D.A. official and a “MAHA mom” who has said people should not reflexively believe in the benefits of vaccines.

A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm.

Prosecutors accused Dr. David Morens, a former adviser to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, of hiding records related to the onset of the pandemic.

In a letter to states and other grant recipients, the Trump administration says the strips encourage drug use.

The case could help determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against the maker of a popular herbicide over claims that it causes cancer.

The desire to live longer and healthier lives has spawned a growth in services and supplements. So what works best?

Before the rise of GLP-1s, obesity experts didn’t study the internal buzz that compels people to eat. Now that food noise is being switched off, they want to understand it.