Medicine

It’s as if the show’s creators absorbed every important conversation in health care today—and somehow transfigured it into good television.

Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests of health care but as what we have always been: healers.

Trump’s attacks on Tylenol come after decades in which many women were excluded from medical studies, which has created uncertainty about which drugs are safe.

In February, Marwan Sultan showed me the wrecked hospital where he worked. In July, an Israeli missile killed him.

The Supreme Court was unlikely to strike down a state ban on some pediatric medical treatments, but the Biden Justice Department’s strategy made it even more improbable.

If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and treatment.

The freethinking director, admired by French critics but at odds with U.S. studios, based one of his greatest films, “Bigger Than Life,” on an article in The New Yorker.

Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

The murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. and the reaction it provoked have revived some long-standing debates about health care in the U.S.

Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.

People with post-viral illnesses often feel shut out of the scientific establishment. Two renowned Yale researchers are attempting to bring them in.

Companies like Prenuvo and Ezra will use magnetic resonance imaging to reveal what’s inside you—for a price.

We may look back on new weight-loss drugs as some of the greatest advances in the annals of chronic disease.

Balance disorders like vertigo can be devastating for patients—but they’re often invisible to the doctors who treat them.

During the hottest summer in history, The New Yorker’s Dhruv Khullar undergoes testing in a specialized chamber where researchers monitor the effects of heat on the body.

The human body is a remarkably effective cooling machine—but it has a limit.

The brutal procedure can save lives, but only in particular cases. Why has it become a default treatment?

Claire Simon’s documentary about a Paris women’s hospital highlights the boundary between the regulations that govern people’s lives and the lives people actually lead.

When we peer into our patient portals, we don’t always see ourselves more clearly.

The staff writer examines the celebrity obsession with the diabetes drug (generically known as semaglutide), and the unsettling undercurrent sweeping thinness back into vogue.