Category: Health & Wellbeing

Currently the agency’s acting director, Dr. Monarez would be the first nonphysician to head the agency in more than 50 years.Read More

View More Trump to Nominate Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C.

The F.D.A. approved an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, despite its own scientists flagging questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of…

View More FDA-Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Stirs Concerns

Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s…

View More ‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science

Doctors have thoughts on this long-standing idea.Read More

View More Is This 1 Phantom Scent A Sign Of Stroke? Here’s What Experts Say.

A gastrointestinal doctor reveals the mistakes you should avoid if you want to lower your risk of colon cancer.Read More

View More I’m A Colorectal Cancer Doctor. Here Are 5 Things I’d Never Do.

Doctors share what you shouldn’t be doing if you want to live a long and healthy life.Read More

View More 10 Everyday Habits That Are Harming Your Longevity The Most

Children’s Health Defense, founded by the health secretary, had published online a vaccine-safety page that looked like the agency’s but that suggested links to autism.Read…

View More Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page

A chaotic restructuring ordered threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.Read More

View More Inside the Turmoil at the V.A. Mental Health System Under Trump

Married to Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, she became a proponent of electroshock therapy after unsuccessful treatments for alcoholism and depression.Read More

View More Kitty Dukakis, Wife of 1988 Presidential Nominee, Dies at 88