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Jessica Winter on a new book about navigating the stratified landscape of contemporary reproductive technology.

These fixers, officially known as caseworkers, unraveled complex and arcane health insurance rules to solve people's coverage issues. They worked in a little-known federal department with which most consumers never interact — until they need help.

Patients who suffered strokes, mini-strokes or temporary blindness had levels of "nanoplastic" particles in their necks 51 times higher than healthy subjects, an abstract of a small-scale study released Tuesday shows.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a key preventive-care provision of the Affordable Care Act in a case heard Monday. Conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, along with the court's three liberals, appeared skeptical of arguments that Obamacare's process for deciding which services must be

Lifestyle changes and medications found to reduce risk of cognitive disease by about 15%

A provision of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as "Obamacare," which mandates preventive care health benefits will go before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Tensions between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his employees at the Department of Health and Human Services are mounting, as he made a series of claims about autism this week — contradicting his agency's findings. Plus, President Donald Trump unveiled an executive order to lower drug prices as his administration explores tariffs that could raise them. Shefali Luthra of The 19th, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and…

Determining the cause of death from vaping is somewhat rare and usually involves severe respiratory illness in the victim. But not in the case of Danny Clark.

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A newly approved antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections, gepotidacin, also may help fight drug-resistant gonorrhea, a new study shows.

Welcome to the world of opioid prescribing, where government mandates based upon Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MMEs) are the rule rather than clinical judgment. In the zeal to fight the risk of opioid addiction, policymakers chose a metric—then forgot what it was meant to measure.

Sean "Diddy" Combs' attorneys have asked a judge to allow prospective jurors at his upcoming federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial to be questioned about their views on drug and alcohol abuse, sex and violence.

When Caroline Darian learned what her father Dominique Pelicot had done, to her and her mother, one part of her life ended. In her first memoir, she describes her trauma and her determination to fight.

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday killings downtown examined by the Sun-Times shows big gaps in care for severely mentally ill, violent people who cycle through jail, prison and hospitals.

A U.S. senator said a GLP-1 drug changed his life — and now he's calling for widespread access to anti-obesity medications.

The Trump administration's mass federal firings include the scientific investigators who make dangerous workplaces safe for millions of people