Category: Health & Wellbeing

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

Sub-Saharan Africa has made steady progress in delivering lifesaving medication to adults, but young patients are harder to reach and 100,000 are dying of AIDS…

View More Global Push to Treat H.I.V. Leaves Children Behind

The 96-year-old scientist who came up with an idea for an “unpregnancy pill” decades ago has led an eventful life, from his teenage days in…

View More The Father of the Abortion Pill

A Tennessee homemaker entered the online world of romance writers and it became, in her words, “an addiction.” Things went downhill from there.Read More

View More A Fake Death in Romancelandia

An uptick hinted at in surveillance data was a mirage, the officials said.Read More

View More No Increased Stroke Risk Linked to Pfizer’s Covid Boosters, Federal Officials Say

The city’s health commissioner said fatalities appeared to still be surging despite measures meant to keep addicted people alive.Read More

View More Fentanyl Helps Push Overdose Deaths to Record Level in New York City