Health

Major companies had faced mounting pressure to stop denying or stalling authorization of coverage for treatments and prescriptions.

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners than before. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.

The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.

Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.

Republicans are seeking to limit a tax loophole that gives states more federal matching funds. Many state budgets could be hurt.

Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said.