Category: Health & Wellbeing

The annual sobriety challenge is more popular than ever, but like many New Year’s resolutions, it can end early in failure. But there are still…

View More Struggling With Dry January? You’re Not Alone.

From her kitchen table in rural Illinois, Ms. Richter started a global foundation for families who shared her son’s rare genetic disorder.Read More

View More Mary Kaye Richter, Florist Turned Medical Crusader, Dies at 77

The federal agency that oversees nursing homes has tightened rules around the use of powerful antipsychotic drugs.Read More

View More Regulators Announce Changes to Nursing Home Rating System

Last fall, the university’s law school joined other top programs in dropping out of the magazine’s annual list. The medical school’s dean said the rankings…

View More Harvard Medical School Joins Boycott of U.S. News Rankings

A St. Louis doula program, part of a nonprofit that received funding in the $1.7 trillion federal budget bill, looks for solutions in a benefit…

View More Fighting Maternal Mortality Among Black Women: ‘I Don’t Want to Die’

A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise in scientific and technological advancement.Read…

View More What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?

Some people who have long lived with the disease say they worry about living as a healthy person, while others worry about the obstacles to…

View More Sickle Cell Cure Brings Mix of Anxiety and Hope