Means has undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University, but her Oregon medical license is currently inactive. Ben Curtis/AP Ben Curtis/AP President Trump’s new pick for U.S. surgeon general could have a bumpy road to confirmation as she faces pushback on multiple fronts — not least from figures within theContinue Reading
Spencer Hospital CEO Brenda Tiefenthaler (second from left) vows to maintain the facility’s mental health services, with help from behavioral health services director Kerri Dandy (left), nursing director Jen Dau (third from left) and outreach navigator Jill Barr. Tony Leys/KFF Health News Tony Leys/KFF Health News SPENCER, Iowa — ThisContinue Reading
Michael Beach, former deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at CDC, attends a weekly protest outside the agency’s main campus in Atlanta. Pien Huang/NPR Pien Huang/NPR Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are reeling, after losing thousands of their colleaguesContinue Reading
A study recruited Black and Latina women and asked them to log all the beauty products they use in a week. More than half of the women used products with known carcinogens. puhhha/iStockphoto/Getty Images puhhha/iStockphoto/Getty Images More than half of Black and Latina women in Los Angeles who participated inContinue Reading
President Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Casey Means, a Stanford-educated doctor turned critic of corporate influence on medicine and health, as surgeon general. Dr. Means, an ally of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described becoming disillusioned by establishment medicine. She rose to prominence lastContinue Reading
A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side. Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing to dial 911. But the man begged her not toContinue Reading
The Well Festival: 4 Takeaways for a Happier Life The Times hosted a day of conversations dedicated to a singular theme: maximizing your happiness. Published May 7, 2025Updated May 8, 2025, 11:31 a.m. ET Pinned Here are 4 takeaways from the Well Festival. Tracee Ellis Ross, the former “black-ish” actor,Continue Reading
I have been friends with two women who have been a couple for nine years. They recently broke up. I remained friends with both of them, trying to support them equally through their breakup. One of them, whom I’ll call “Alice,” wanted me to not be friends with “Jane.” SheContinue Reading
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their grants of any reference to mRNA. Around the country, state legislatures are considering bills to ban or limit such vaccines,Continue Reading
Over the last decade, researchers have found associations between ultraprocessed foods and health conditions like heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, dementia and some types of cancer. Now, they are adding Parkinson’s disease to that list. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology, researchers from the United States andContinue Reading
