For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the Odds

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/26 8:25A Gina Kolata

In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds.

Breast Cancer Survival Not Boosted by Double Mastectomy, Study Says

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/25 5:22A Gina Kolata

A large study showed that for most patients, having both breasts removed after cancer was detected in one made no difference.

A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/23 11:00P Gina Kolata

Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions.

Anxiety, Depression and Other Disorders Can Look Like A.D.H.D.

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/22 4:32A Christina Caron

Many other conditions have similar symptoms, experts say, so avoid the pull of self-diagnosis.

Biden and Georgia Are Waging a Fight Over Medicaid and the Future of Obamacare

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/21 8:07A Noah Weiland

A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans.

Listeria Outbreak Tied to Deli-Sliced Meat Kills at Least 2, CDC Says

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/20 7:57A Emily Schmall

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 28 people had been hospitalized with listeria infections across a dozen states.

Is Bird Flu Spreading Widely to Farm Workers? A Small Study Offers Some Reassurance

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/20 4:31A Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland

Officials found no evidence of silent infections in 35 Michigan dairy workers, but experts noted that much more data was necessary.

Some Seniors Readily Step Back. Some Never Will.

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/20 2:47A Paula Span

Researchers are only beginning to understand why some people embrace retirement while others won’t even consider it.

Ozempic and Weight Loss Drugs: Which Should You Choose?

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/18 11:03P Gina Kolata

As patients consider drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro to treat obesity, experts say the choices are not so simple.

Peter Buxtun, Who Exposed Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 86

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/18 6:18A Trip Gabriel

A Public Health Service employee, he turned whistle-blower after learning of decades-long research involving hundreds of poor, infected Black men who were left untreated.

A Daily Pill to Prevent S.T.I.s? It May Work, Scientists Say.

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/18 4:14A Apoorva Mandavilli

A common antibiotic, doxycycline, greatly reduced cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia when taken every day, a study found.

Bird Flu Is Spreading. Why Aren’t More People Getting Tested?

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/17 5:46A Apoorva Mandavilli

Even as the H5N1 virus evolves, gaps remain in the nation’s contingency plans for human testing, scientists say.

Moving In Childhood Contributes to Depression, Study Finds

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/17 5:07A Ellen Barry

A study of more than a million Danes found that frequent moves in childhood had a bigger effect than poverty on adult mental health risk.

This Is Literally Your Brain on Drugs

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/17 5:00A Andrew Jacobs

A small new study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin in a controlled setting.

What’s Greenest and Cleanest When Nature Calls?

NYTimes.com (Health) 7/14 11:02P Elizabeth Anne Brown

Conventional toilet paper has a big environmental impact. We’ve got the lowdown on alternatives, from bamboo tissue to bidets.