Health Care

Nose-plus-throat swabbing for COVID could increase test accuracy—but could create problems, too

Medical alarms don’t have to be louder to be more effective

A cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a company owned by UnitedHealth Group, had a wide impact that's expected to grow

The Inflation Reduction Act allows nonprofit hospitals to take advantage of renewable tax credits that were otherwise out of reach

Outside experts found that two studies cited in a federal case on medication abortion had serious design problems and that their authors had undisclosed conflicts of interest

People struggling with addiction cite untreated withdrawal, pain, discrimination and stringent policies as reasons for leaving hospitals against medical advice. We need to take their complaints seriously

Debate about brain death has prevented needed revisions to the Uniform Determination of Death Act

Three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century have cited faulty science to justify hostility

Too many hospice providers in the U.S. are run by private equity and for-profit corporations. A lack of regulation allows them to provide abysmal end-of-life care

The wealthiest person on Earth has taken the next step toward a commercial brain interface

Throughout the world, the number of relatives that people have may dramatically shrink by 2095, which could change care for children and aging people

Researchers calculated the number of pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion was banned throughout pregnancy after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision