World Health News

At first glance, the Skittles package appears to be just like the one sold in the candy aisle of a supermarket: It has block...

In New York and New Jersey, the race is on to grow legal weed.In Orange County, N.Y., there are plans to build a large...

Several Covid-19 mitigation measures — including improving ventilation, requiring adults to wear face masks and conducting frequent surveillance testing — can help schools stay...

Prof. Jerome Kagan, a Harvard psychologist whose research into temperament found that shy infants often grow up to be anxious and fearful adults because...

“This is one of the better technologies if you’re worried about something staying in your child’s body,” said Dr. Ibukun C. Kalu, a professor...

Other caregivers ran into trouble accessing health care, either for themselves or their loved ones. Ora Larson, 82, was scheduled for back surgery in...

But as a group, the experts surveyed were unconflicted about vaccinating children. Many cited the risk of long-term physical and neurological effects of Covid-19,...

Shubham Chandra left a well-paying job at a New York City start-up partly to manage the hundreds of medical bills resulting from his father’s...

If you want advice about staying healthy in your 80s, who better to ask than two 80-year-olds who have dedicated their careers to public...

It also had an unusual genetic mutation, a deletion in what is commonly known as the N gene, which codes for an important structural...