Category: Health & Wellbeing

The death rate among these patients is about 15 percent, researchers reported. The virus should be added to the list of opportunistic infections seen in…

View More Mpox Often Leads to Severe Illness, Even Death, in People With Advanced H.I.V.

In 1971, he transferred material from one organism to another, creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. He later helped lead a historic effort to…

View More Paul Berg, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Genetic Engineering, Is Dead at 96

PepsiCo and Coca-Cola enter hard soda markets, causing concerns among regulators and researchers.Read More

View More Big Soda’s Alcohol Drinks Worry Health Experts

The pandemic has pushed already stressed nurses away from a demanding field. Does the job need to be rethought?Read More

View More Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence…

View More A Fraught New Frontier in Telehealth: Ketamine

Billions of people live with the infection, but there has been scant progress for treatments and tests.Read More

View More Herpes Can Be Devastating but Treatment and Testing Remain Scant

The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania is the latest public figure to disclose his mental health struggles, an indication of growing acceptance, though some stigma remains.Read…

View More Fetterman’s Disclosure of Depression Signals New Openness on Mental Health