"Dangerous Miracle," by Liam Shaw, is a sweeping account of the rise and precarious future of a live-saving medicine.

Even for 60ish youngsters, researchers reaffirm that exercise is essential. But just walking won’t cut it — break out the weights and go for strength training too.

Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills. Some practitioners think dentistry should no longer be siloed.

Every state recognizes brain death. But rules vary, and the true line separating life from death is ambiguous as ever.

Americans have shorter lives than international peers. Some researchers now say conservative policies may be to blame.

Smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise? Yes, but that’s not all. A researcher tells us what really hurts US life expectancy.

In “The Age of Diagnosis,” Suzanne O’Sullivan challenges common assumptions about how we detect and treat disease

Guided conversations with the terminally ill are popular with patients, families and doctors who’ve experienced them. But are they truly beneficial? Researchers are looking beneath the anecdotal appeal.

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Irwin Nash was 73 years old when he filed a complaint with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Yale New Haven Hospital, the primary teaching hospital affiliated with Yale School of Medicine. At the time of the 2018 filing, Nash had worked as a pathologist at the hospital or served on the medical school faculty for 42 continuous years. The EEOC, earlier this year, charged the health system with violating the law by requiring employees to complete cognitive and eye ex

The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) seeks to determine the value of health care treatments. Some patients are wary.

Over two decades, the use of magnetic resonance imaging and other high-tech scans for low back pain increased by 50 percent in developed countries. Medical societies have launched campaigns to convince physicians and patients to forgo the unnecessary images, to little avail. Why is imaging so common?

Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills, yet dentistry is often siloed