Advertising: Starring in That Drug Commercial? An Actual Patient

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/23 11:12A JOANNE KAUFMAN

Pharmaceutical ads have long featured healthy-looking actors or celebrity pitches. Now there’s an increased desire to use people who have taken the medications.

Tiny Device Is a ‘Huge Advance’ for Treatment of Severe Heart Failure

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/23 8:50A GINA KOLATA

A clip used to repair damaged heart valves sharply reduced deaths among patients with a grim prognosis.

#WhyIDidntReport: Survivors of Sexual Assault Share Their Stories After Trump Tweet

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/23 6:41A JACEY FORTIN

A new hashtag has survivors of sexual abuse answering the question: Why didn’t you say something sooner?

Beat Richner, Doctor to Cambodia’s Needy Young, Dies at 71

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/21 8:47A JULIA WALLACE

Dr. Richner turned a war-ravaged pediatric hospital in Phnom Penh into a network of five medical centers that now serve one million patients a year.

Workers Overdose on the Job, and Employers Struggle to Respond

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/21 7:29A JENNY GOLD

Many businesses are ill-equipped or unwilling to deal with opioid addiction even as it has driven up health costs and hurt productivity.

The Couple Who Helped Decode Dyslexia

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/21 4:27A KATIE HAFNER

In 1983, Sally and Bennett Shaywitz began studying the reading skills of more than 400 children. The subjects are in their 40s now, and the Shaywitzes are still tracking them.

Ask Well: How Long Do I Retain Immunity?

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/20 11:00P RICHARD KLASCO, M.D.

Antibody half-life varies tremendously, from about 11 years for tetanus to over 200 years for measles and mumps.

Biosafety Reforms Still Lagging at Military Labs

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/20 11:09A EMILY BAUMGAERTNER

Three years after finding that laboratories had mishandled deadly pathogens, the Pentagon has no way to measure the effectiveness of its reforms, according to a new report.

Sloan Kettering’s Cozy Deal With Start-Up Ignites a New Uproar

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/20 10:57A CHARLES ORNSTEIN and KATIE THOMA

A for-profit venture with exclusive rights to use the center’s vast archive of tissue slides has generated concerns at the nonprofit cancer center.

Global Health: ‘Latent’ Tuberculosis? It’s Not That Common, Experts Find

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/20 7:58A DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Active infections kill 4,000 people a day worldwide, more than AIDS does. But the notion that a quarter of the global population harbors silent tuberculosis is “a fundamental misunderstanding.”

Daytime Sleepiness Tied to Brain Changes of Alzheimer’s

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/20 5:23A NICHOLAS BAKALAR

Men and women who reported feeling sleepy during the day had higher levels of brain plaques.

Exorbitant Dental Bill? Medical Insurance May Cover Some of It

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/20 5:09A DAVID TULLER, KAISER HEALTH NEWS

Medical insurance generally pays more than dental insurance, so your dentist may be able to bill for services extending beyond tooth care.

Hospital Food You Can Get Excited About

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/19 11:02P RICHARD SCHIFFMAN

Bland, institutional food can be bad for patients in many ways.

Living With Cancer: Raising Awareness of BRCA Mutations

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/19 11:00P SUSAN GUBAR

Genetic testing may help those at high risk take steps to prevent deadly cancers.

At War: What Dating Is Like When Medication Kills Your Libido

NYTimes.com (Health) 9/19 11:00P JASON ARMENT

A Marine veteran shares the struggles of dating while on medication for his service-related PTSD and chronic pain.