Category: Health & Wellbeing

Legal scholars say the ruling by a Texas judge, if upheld, could spur disputes over many medications and upend the drug industry’s reliance on the…

View More Abortion Ruling Could Undermine the F.D.A.’s Drug-Approval Authority

Intense patient advocacy, shifting politics, a determined Democratic governor and a handful of maverick Republicans led the state to join 39 others that have expanded…

View More Will North Carolina Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Medicaid Expansion Fight?

One federal judge said the F.D.A.’s approval of the drug mifepristone was invalid, while another federal judge ordered the agency to keep the pill available.…

View More Abortion Pill Cases Appear Headed to the Supreme Court

One invalidated the F.D.A.’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The other ordered the F.D.A. to do nothing to restrict the pill’s availability.Read More

View More What’s Going On With the Abortion Pill Rulings by Federal Judges?

After she died — and just a year after her discovery — another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half…

View More Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy

From accidents to disease outbreaks, cruise ship incidents are rare but do happen.Read More

View More How To Stay Safe On A Cruise

Despite solid financial track records, many older Americans have a hard time refinancing because of their mortality risks and lower retirement incomes.Read More

View More Why Older People Can’t Get New Mortgages

Among his accomplishments in New York City was successfully lobbying to ban smoking indoors, a move that was replicated around the world.Read More

View More Dr. Colin McCord, Who Helped Impose a Smoking Ban, Dies at 94

New Yorkers’ life span dropped by 4.6 years in 2020 from the previous year. Health officials say it may take the city years to recover.Read…

View More How Bad Was Covid in NYC? Here’s a 200-Year Timeline of Death Rates