Health

As communities recover from the devastation of two major hurricanes, many face an emotional toll that extends beyond the physical damage. Hurricane Milton struck Florida just a week and a half after Hurricane Helene, leaving a path of destruction—and heightened stress and grief. The emotional impact is affecting people as far away as Boston, where ...

For many patients, these medications have been life changing, or even lifesaving. Getting their hands on them, however, can be another experience entirely.

A company is recalling nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry made at an Oklahoma plant because the products may be contaminated with listeria bacteria.

A top U.S. commercial bakery is pushing back on an FDA warning to stop using labels that say its products contain sesame — even when they don’t.

Amazon has been working to speed up deliveries of medication as it looks to accelerate its push into health care.

From life-saving cancer treatments to common antibiotics, over 300 medications are currently in short supply.

Forty years after the Hatch-Waxman Act created a market for affordable generic versions of prescription medications, it is struggling with persistent shortages.

A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for U.S. cities to replace lead pipes.

Four Boston-area Northeastern University graduate students living off-campus have been diagnosed with chickenpox, the school told members of the community Friday. The four, who weren’t identified, were being treated for the viral disease as they isolated, according to the message from Northeastern University Health and Counseling Services, sh...

The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

Dentists say unlicensed practitioners offering cheap dental veneers are putting patients at risk.

After a routine mammogram in late 2022, Kristina Guerrero received a call for follow-up tests because doctors thought they spotted a cyst in her breast. She did not have a family history of breast cancer, so she suspected the mass was scar tissue from a previous surgery.

Antibody blood test results expected later this month may help answer a crucial question: Is there human-to-human transmission of the bird flu?