Dr. Sandra Lee has seen it all, dermatologically speaking. A cyst as big as a grapefruit. A blackhead so large it looked like a worn penny. A benign fatty mass sticking out of a neck like a second head. By comparison, the growth she was removing on a sunny CaliforniaContinue Reading
Q: I love my partner, but their rumbling snores keep me awake. Are there solutions for people like us? Sharing a bed with someone who snores can be a constant challenge. It’s also a common one — up to half of adults in the United States snore regularly, some dataContinue Reading
At Dr. Monica Christmas’s clinic these days, she sees two kinds of menopausal patients. The first, she said, is suffering from the symptoms associated with this life phase, but is also wary of hormone therapy because she’s heard there are health risks associated with it. The second kind of patientContinue Reading
It’s 6:15 a.m. and you are five minutes into your first run in weeks. The temperature is perfect and the sun is just emerging, turning the sky into a stained glass masterpiece. Then you feel a twinge in your knee stepping onto a curb. Was there a click? It achesContinue Reading
Measles cases are surging in West Texas, where an outbreak has led to the first U.S. death from the virus in a decade. But in a meeting with President Trump and other cabinet officials this week, the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said the situation was “not unusual.” “WeContinue Reading
Zalmai Afzali, an internal medicine doctor in northeastern Virginia, had to complete a residency program in the U.S. after having already finished one in Afghanistan. He supports new state laws dropping such requirements for foreign-trained doctors. Roya Qaemi Roya Qaemi A growing number of states have made it easier forContinue Reading
The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them: Those stark projections were laid out in a series of memos by Nicholas Enrich, acting assistant administrator forContinue Reading
In a first test of the Trump administration’s ability to respond to an infectious disease emergency, its top health official has shied away from one of the government’s most important tools, experts said on Sunday: loudly and directly encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., theContinue Reading
Dr. Francis Collins, who led the National Institutes of Health for more than a decade and continued his career at the agency after he stepped aside as director in 2021, has resigned. Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images Dr. Francis Collins, the legendary former director of the National Institutes ofContinue Reading
Bri McNulty pictured when she was in Atlanta for training in the CDC’s Public Health Associate Program. She and all other members of the competitive program in her cohort, deployed around the country, were fired by the Trump administration earlier this month. Bri McNulty Bri McNulty Kathie Evenhouse has livedContinue Reading
