Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig.
Read more ...
The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.
Read more ...
The nation’s health secretary announced that he planned to invite scientists to provide answers by September, but specialists consider that target date unrealistic.
Read more ...
The nation’s health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address the mass layoffs that have gutted oversight of tobacco and vapes, food safety and drug reviews.
Read more ...
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.
Read more ...
Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” reached $10 billion last year. A leading seller made a large donation to President Trump’s election campaign.
Read more ...
Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” made of dried placenta has soared as doctors pocket lucrative discounts from sellers.
Read more ...
From the “chairs” to the hallway medicine, the show’s depiction of an emergency medicine system that is beyond capacity rings true for medical experts.
Read more ...
The health secretary seemed stoic — maybe nervous, even — at the start of his first major trip. But on a hike with Navajo Nation leaders, he was finally in his element.
Read more ...
The veto by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a Democrat, pushed back on a growing campaign against the mineral, which has been used for decades to prevent cavities.
Read more ...
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
Read more ...
New York Times reporters are looking into cases of unnecessary and wasteful spending in government health programs.
Read more ...
She said I could tell her anything.
Read more ...
In an interview with CBS, the health secretary also suggested he wasn’t familiar with massive cuts to state funding for public health.
Read more ...
Pregnancy-related mortality has risen sharply, and doctors have overlooked a particularly dangerous period: from six weeks to one year after the birth.
Read more ...
Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.
Read more ...
The health secretary’s appearance at a tribal self-governance conference brought collegial discussions and a bit of friction.
Read more ...
In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid thinking.
Read more ...
Mother-to-child H.I.V. transmission takes an enormous toll in low-income countries. The Trump administration has laid off the officials who worked to solve the problem.
Read more ...
The health secretary’s announcement came on the first day of a tour through the Southwest to showcase nutrition legislation and other priorities.
Read more ...