An annotated page from ‘Heart’
Many of the experiments surgeons performed in the 1950s brought us to our current understanding of the human heart, but "would not pass muster with any institutional review board today," Sandeep Jauhar writes.
January’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘Heart’
"Heart: A History" is an exploration of our most vital organ and favored metaphor.
These surprising health stories shaped 2018
Gun violence, prolonged mental trauma for children and the ongoing opioid crisis were just a few of the major health stories that captured national attention this year.
How llamas could help us fight the flu
Researchers now think they’re on the path to universal flu protection. The source of their new defense: llamas.
President Trump has announced several proposed changes to how Medicare buys certain expensive prescription drugs, relying in part upon a benchmark price index of other developed countries, who negotiate lower prices. But critics wonder why the U.S. government doesn't do…
A federal study aiming to collect the health information of one million U.S. residents is limited by the very problems it hopes to solve.
A team of biologists and chemists hopes that this alien environment might prod these floral cosmonauts into producing new and improved molecules for drugs.
Tech giants have developed speech recognition and machine learning technologies that allow doctors to automatically transcribe audio recordings.
FDR’s health finally gave out after years of carrying the weight of the United States, and ultimately the free world, on his muscular shoulders.
