Browsing: Health

Major health insurance companies are partnering with a little-known data company to boost their profits, often at the expense of…

Historically speaking, it’s not a bad time to be a teenager’s liver. Or the lungs.Regular use of alcohol, tobacco, and…

In 1817, James Parkinson expressed hope for the disease that bears his name. He thought that at some point a…

Bird flu outbreaks among dairy cows in several states, and at least one infection in a farmer in Texas, have…

The federal government is required to “expeditiously” house immigrant children who cross into the United States illegally, rather than allowing…

If you’re 50 or older and reading this article, chances are you’re wearing a pair of inexpensive reading glasses to…

The first patient to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig did so well that he was discharged…

As lawmakers in a nearby hearing room debated last month whether to support her Medicaid expansion legislation, Kansas Gov. Laura…

At some level, the human liver in the operating room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago was alive. Blood circulating…

The highly lethal form of bird flu circulating around the world since 2021 has killed tens of millions of birds,…