For decades, the conversation around urban noise has centered on human health — hearing loss, sleep disruption, cardiovascular strain. But a growing body of research is now t...
For decades, immunologists have focused on what happens between cells — the signaling cascades, the antibody responses, the choreography of white blood cells converging on a...
For decades, vaccine development has operated on a one-pathogen, one-vaccine model. Measles gets a shot. Polio gets a shot. COVID-19 arrived and, after a frantic global sprin...
The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to dismantle a sweeping array of pollution regulations, rolling back or weakening rules that have governed industrial emissions,...
For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency's list of drinking water contaminants has focused on the usual suspects: lead, arsenic, bacteria, industrial solvents. The ki...
For years, researchers have sounded alarms about microplastics infiltrating every corner of the planet — from the deepest ocean trenches to human blood, from Arctic ice to pl...
For years, Medicare Advantage was the good deal in American health care — the plan that gave seniors more than traditional Medicare at roughly the same cost, sometimes less....
A journalist walked into a virtual clinic, described symptoms of anxiety and depression, and walked out with a prescription for Lexapro — an antidepressant with real side eff...
The injection era may be ending sooner than anyone expected.On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly's orforglipant — brand name Orforglip...
A small but significant integration went live this week between two companies that don't typically share a stage: Garmin, the GPS and fitness wearable giant, and Natural Cycles, th...
A 32-year-old woman finds a lump. She's been meaning to get insurance since aging off her parents' plan, but freelance work doesn't come with benefits and the marketplace pre...
Mitchell Katz doesn't mince words. The CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals — the largest public hospital system in the United States, serving more than a million patients annually...
In the early days of digital medicine, a video call with a doctor felt like a futuristic novelty—a "nice to have" for people with tech-savvy lifestyles or...
For years, the vaping industry sold a simple promise: a cleaner alternative to combustible cigarettes. Millions bought in. Now, a sweeping new review of the scientific litera...
For decades, the first act of the American workday has been a cup of coffee. Before the laptop opens, before the inbox is confronted, before anything productive happens at al...