Health Care

Damage from Hurricane Helene forced the only abortion clinic in western North Carolina to shutter, disrupting health care for pregnant people across a large region

An epidemiologist explores a troubling rise in early-onset breast cancer diagnoses and discusses the potential link to chronic exposure to endocrine disruptors.

Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally

New formulas, devices and tools are removing historical bias from medical diagnoses

Some of the most inventive changes to health care have started in rural communities around the world

Health experts share what gives them hope for improving health for all

Both Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differ

The presidential candidates have vastly divergent records on and plans for protecting access to reproductive health care, including abortion and IVF

A study reports higher prevalence of eating disorders among people with polycystic ovary syndrome, regardless of their body mass index.

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey wanted more information to prove its safety

Sickle cell disease causes severe pain that’s hard to treat, but researchers are finding new ways to offer relief

The FDA recently approved three sickle cell drugs, and dozens more are in development