Category: Health & Wellbeing

After enduring severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, the geneticist Marlena Fejzo made finding the cause of her condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, her life’s work.Read More

View More Her Doctor Said Her Illness Was All in Her Head. This Scientist Was Determined to Find the Truth.

The company’s decision follows a similar move by its rival, Eli Lilly, this month.Read More

View More Novo Nordisk Says It Will Slash the Price of Insulin

A retired military surgeon, he blew the whistle in 2003 on Beijing’s cover-up of the epidemic. He was later punished for denouncing the Tiananmen Square…

View More Jiang Yanyong, Who Helped Expose China’s SARS Crisis, Dies at 91

Most older cancer patients received invasive care in the last month of their lives, a new study finds. That may not be what they wanted.Read…

View More Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End

Researchers have long assumed that the brain controls our sense of time. A new study suggests the heart plays an important role.Read More

View More Heartbeat May Shape Our Perception of Time, Study Shows

An agreement between attorneys general and major drug distributors increased scrutiny on medications for A.D.H.D., addiction, anxiety and pain.Read More

View More How an Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to ADHD Medication and Other Drugs

The Canadian Medical Association is pushing for a single license to eliminate the barriers between provinces and territories.Read More

View More A National Medical License May Ease Canada’s Doctor Shortages