Health

A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big bills.

While the announcement is good news for the Princess of Wales, cancer experts describe the challenges of a life shadowed by an earlier diagnosis.

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

The agency issued designs for front-of-package lists that food companies would be required to include.

Even occasional heavy drinking offset a decline in stroke, according to an analysis intended to shape the upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines.

Analysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war.

Azara Ballet in Florida is a place where performers can just be themselves.

Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.

Outbreaks among the unvaccinated are a predictable consequence of falling immunization rates. But even vaccinated adults may be vulnerable to some illnesses.

By 2060, new dementia cases per year could double to one million because of the growing population of older Americans, a study predicts.