By ALICE CALLAHAN
Antidepressants and other medications can affect bonding, but letting an illness go untreated is far riskier for both mother and baby.
Published: December 29, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
As friends lose touch or die, older people can forge new bonds. Those relationships appear critical to physical and psychological health.
Published: December 29, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By CHRISTOPHER MELE
Despite the claims of some commercial products, experts say no elixir exists to cure a hangover. But there are steps you can take to minimize its effects.
Published: December 29, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY
Science shows that stress, like that brought on by the sudden death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, could have contributed to her collapse.
Published: December 28, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY
The actress and author brought the subject of bipolar illness into the popular culture with humor and hard-boiled detail.
Published: December 27, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Babies of women who took fish oil in the last three months of pregnancy had a 31 percent lower risk of developing asthma by age 3, a study in Denmark found.
Published: December 27, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
As the president-elect and Congress prepare to repeal the law, Temple University Hospital and others serving the poor expect harsh consequences.
Published: December 27, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
The surgery almost always works to help very heavy people lose a lot of weight and also can mysteriously make some chronic conditions vanish.
Published: December 26, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
Even as the pounds fell away and their health improved, two patients contended with the feeling that life hadn’t changed as much as they’d hoped.
Published: December 26, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Most major cancer centers post the trials in which they participate on their websites. But other sites show more options.
Published: December 22, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By SOPHIE EGAN
Vegetables grown in hydroponic warehouses can be just as nutritious as those grown conventionally.
Published: December 22, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
As immunotherapy research takes off, the patients getting the treatment have been overwhelmingly white. Researchers know this and say they are trying to correct it.
Published: December 22, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
After decades of trying, scientists have finally devised a powerful vaccine against a terrifying contagion.
Published: December 21, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By STEPH YIN
Think of your liver as the unindulgent relative at your holiday party who doesn’t like the change in schedule and would rather be in bed.
Published: December 21, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
In the study of 520 babies ages 6 to 23 months, a five-day treatment for babies was found to be lacking, unlike the standard 10-day course.
Published: December 20, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
What if your doctor’s gender could influence your chance of surviving a visit to the hospital?
Published: December 18, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Dr. Wilkins, who studied dentistry at a time when few women did, wrote an influential textbook in 1959 that is still used worldwide.
Published: December 18, 2016 at 07:00PM
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