Health

A 26-group coalition of pharmacists, physicians and patients says consolidation, not coverage gaps, is driving the crisis.

Electroconvulsive therapy is supposed to be used only in extreme circumstances, such as when a patient is suicidal or when other treatments have failed.

Eight hours isn’t necessarily the magic number for sleep. Your age, body clock and individual needs all matter.

For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.

Pooling 74 studies of more than 4.2 million people in 30 countries, researchers found leisure exercise cut dementia risk while active commuting was linked to a 10 percent higher risk.

ProPublica found that auditors and outside experts identified major flaws in Dr. Craig Towers's naltrexone study, after addiction specialists began questioning results that looked too good to be true.

DETROIT — Joyce Collins has buried nearly her entire immediate family. Her father died in 1992 after cancer spread to his bones. Her oldest sister was diagnosed with lung cancer, later developed breast and brain cancer, and died in 2013. Another sister died from pancreatic cancer in 2007.

Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat

Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the administration’s approach to foreign health data. They said it could set an “alarming precedent.”

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to freeze her eggs — and to document the process on social media — has put a spotlight on the process, which is typically marketed to people hoping to extend their fertility. Egg freezing has exploded in popularity in the past decade.