Hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period, an analysis of millions of hospital admissions in the United States found.

The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to allow the overdose-reversal medication to be sold without a prescription, a step toward making it a common emergency tool.

Following even basic screenings and operations, patients often must arrange for someone to deliver them home. For older people, it can be a tall order.

The state awarded a $50 million contract to produce less costly treatments, but moves by major suppliers might undercut the initiative before any new product emerges.

Mississippi is one of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that continue to reject federal funding to expand health insurance for the poor, intensifying financial pressure on hospitals.

The state?s Democratic governor signed a bill expanding the health insurance program for low-income people days after the measure cleared the Republican-controlled legislature.

Britain and Canada have authorized another round of booster shots for older and immunocompromised citizens. So far, U.S. officials haven?t followed suit.

Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.

Duodenoscopes ? tubular cameras threaded into the intestine ? with disposable parts were supposed to be safer. But the parts can fall off in the body, the F.D.A. warned.

Some researchers claim that chatbots have developed theory of mind. But is that just our own theory of mind gone wild?

More than 8,000 gallons of an acrylic polymer solution leaked on Friday into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of the city?s drinking water.

Forty-one bent or twisted iron nails, unearthed from a second-century imperial burial site, were meant to keep the deceased in their place.

A new study quantified the benefits of pollution reduction in terms of race and class.

The state plans to use state funds, which a spokeswoman for Gov. Bill Lee said would be more efficient than receiving federal dollars. Some organizations are concerned they will be cut off if they don?t align with his conservative politics.

A new analysis summarizes the emerging picture of factors that make long-term post-Covid symptoms more likely.

The pandemic may have disrupted the detection of autism spectrum disorder in young children, researchers also reported.

Wyoming?s Constitution guarantees a right to make individual health care decisions. The new ban attempts to circumvent that right by declaring that abortion is not health care.

A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals.

The Biden administration has proposed changes to how it would pay private Medicare Advantage plans.

As local data sources become less reliable, The Times will instead report information collected by the C.D.C. on its virus tracking pages.

By analyzing seven samples of hair said to have come from Ludwig van Beethoven, researchers debunked myths about the revered composer while raising new questions about his life and death.

The Biden administration announced a plan to modernize how patients are matched to organs, seeking to shorten wait times, address racial inequities and reduce deaths.

Cities in the U.S. and elsewhere have made strides, but challenges remain.

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