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The effort comes as Republicans are struggling to win over female voters two weeks before the midterm elections.

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as the health secretary has recommended, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent, a team of researchers reported.

These doctors and community health workers are a safety net for patients losing coverage as premiums soar and Medicaid cuts mount, even as their clinic struggles to stay afloat.

Seven Ebola infections have now been confirmed in Kenya, which before this month had never recorded cases of the deadly virus.

Helen Branswell recognized the threat of the pandemic ahead of the vast majority of journalists and even medical experts. She was 69.

Public health experts are finding ways to encourage firearm safety practices for older adults who own guns, especially when there are indications of cognitive decline.

The board that oversees the N.I.H. Clinical Center voted unanimously to support a statement accusing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of undermining trust in the hospital’s work.

While some people slow down as they get older, or just try to maintain, these athletes went looking for a challenge in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

President Trump has been promoting his efforts to reduce drug prices, but many Americans have not seen relief from rising costs for prescriptions and insurance premiums.

As major health systems open their own programs, longevity medicine is gaining credibility and becoming more accessible.

As more Americans live longer and as the population ages, measuring the effect of retirement on physical, cognitive and mental abilities is a complex undertaking.

Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.

A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited these labs, which dot the former Soviet states, and are shrouded in secrecy.

We asked people who aspire to live long lives about how they hoped to do it and who might have inspired them along the way.