Category: Health & Wellbeing

In a Rhode Island city, AR-15-style weapons at a police firing range comprise the soundtrack to the school day, inuring children to the threat of…

View More Gunfire Echoing Through School Grounds? Parents Are Terrified. Kids Stopped Noticing.

Thousands of people shared their experiences and related to the financial drain on families portrayed in the Dying Broke series.Read More

View More ‘Financial Ruin Is Baked Into the System’: Readers Debate Long-Term Care Costs

The city’s $26 million contract with Talkspace makes mental health care very accessible. But some worry it is ‘a Band-Aid’ at a time of crisis.Read…

View More New York City Is Offering Free Online Therapy to Teens: Will It Work?

Lawmakers, U.S. officials and industry experts have offered measures to try to shore up the generic drug market.Read More

View More Possible Ways to Ease Drug Shortages

Researchers in developing countries are trying to find treatments for conditions that affect the poorest people. But the system is stacked against their therapies.Read More

View More New Hope — and an Old Hurdle — for a Terrible Disease With Terrible Treatments

Key drugs have been in scarce supply, revealing a deep crisis in the generic drug industry.Read More

View More Behind the Shortage Keeping Cancer Patients From Chemo

She shared the experience of her transition in a documentary to encourage her patients, many of whom were also transgender, to live openly and confidently.Read…

View More Jeanne Hoff, Pioneering Transgender Psychiatrist, Dies at 85

Dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed.Read More

View More Tongue Tie Surgery: Inside the Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues