Health

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.

Getting financial assistance from hospitals often involves filling out cumbersome forms. Some states now require hospitals to identify and automatically enroll patients eligible for charity care.

Countries seeking to explicitly counteract the negative effects of the pandemic need a good compass to guide their recovery plan. And that won’t be GDP.

If pharmaceutical companies don’t voluntarily help people in poor countries, those governments can do what they’ve done in past health crises: let other companies produce generic versions of patented medicines, to protect the common good.

A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign aimed at persuading Americans to manage their healthcare and medical records on apps.

Horses have been used to make antivenom for more than a century.

As state governments grapple with how to determine who’s sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some families are already struggling with what illnesses guarantee health coverage because of a disability.

A bipartisan group led by Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will hold Congress’ first-ever hearing on how to improve treatment for menopause and fund research.

A study in JAMA Psychiatry found that teen girls in states with bans reported higher rates of suicidal ideation than girls in states without them, whether or not they had ever been pregnant.

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.