Health

Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle.

The law prohibits telehealth appointments for abortion, but some groups are already using out-of-state physicians to prescribe the necessary medications.

The lawsuit takes aim at a new federal rule that would ban discrimination in health care on the basis of gender identity.

While no psychedelic-based therapy has been approved yet in the U.S., Lykos Therapeutics studied MDMA, more commonly called ecstacy or molly, in two late-stage studies.

Yoshiko Miwa turned 110, making her a supercentenarian, in February.

Black women die from cancer at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group. The American Cancer Society is beginning a 30-year study to investigate why.

When Mercedes Sandhu called her husband from the ultrasound appointment, he thought she was playing a practical joke.

An estimated 15% of Alzheimer’s patients carry two copies of the APOE4 gene, which has been identified for the first time to be an underlying cause of the disease.

Some honey roasted peanuts and mixed nuts may be tainted with the germ, which can cause serious, or sometimes fatal, infections in certain people.

The island has been without abortion services since the only abortion-providing doctor retired in July 2018.

Products sold in Europe, Japan and South Korea offer more protection from the sun. In the U.S., the key ingredients aren't FDA-approved.