Category: Health & Wellbeing

Dr. Judith Herman, who helped launch the field of trauma studies, has returned to publishing after a long, mysterious ordeal.Read More

View More She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her.

Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.Read More

View More Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story

Even as the nation’s drug crisis mounted, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine continued to accept funds from some members of the Sackler family,…

View More Sacklers Gave Millions to Institution That Advises on Opioid Policy

The people at the dog park, the bank teller, the regular waiter — these casual relationships may be “weak ties,” but they’re also a key…

View More They May Be Just Acquaintances. They’re Important to You Anyway.

Missouri has imposed sweeping rules to limit health care for trans adults. Other states have banned Medicaid coverage or introduced bills outlawing care for young…

View More Many States Are Trying to Restrict Gender Treatments for Adults, Too

The order halts lower court rulings that would have restricted the drug as an appeal moves forward in a case with profound implications for abortion…

View More Supreme Court Ensures, for Now, Broad Access to Abortion Pill

As the prisoners age, their physical and mental health needs are increasingly challenging, the leader of a visiting delegation said.Read More

View More Red Cross Expresses Alarm Over Detainee Health at Guantánamo Bay

The Biden administration is asking states to use Medicaid funds to cover opioid addiction treatment in correctional facilities, where many people suffer intense cravings and…

View More U.S. to Fund Opioid Addiction Treatment in Jails and Prisons