By ALYSON MARTIN and NUSHIN RASHIDIAN
When Harold Richards, 81, arrived at the hospital emergency room in Ann Arbor, Mich., he expected a long wait. After all, he’d been through the emergency room drill before. The patient in the worst condition would be seen first, he knew, and t
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By WILLIAM J. BROAD and HIROKO TABUCHI
Even as workers race to prevent the radioactive cores of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan from melting down, concerns are growing that nearby pools holding spent fuel rods could pose an even greater danger.
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By HENRY FOUNTAIN
As radiation levels rise at the crippled reactors in northern Japan, a basic question arises: how long can workers keep struggling to ward off full meltdowns?
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By SIMON ROMERO
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez is known to have expressed little patience for imported leisure pursuits like golf or Scotch whisky tippling. Now he has reserved some ire for another practice that is beloved in Venezuela: breast
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By REED ABELSON
Congress continues to debate the impact of the federal health care law, with a House subcommittee holding a hearing on Thursday about the effect of the law on the nation’s employers.
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By REED ABELSON
The McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of Johnson and Johnson, which has been besieged by manufacturing problems and recalls of children’s Tylenol and other over-the-counter medicines for more than a year, reached a consent decree with the Fo
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
This week marks the beginning of Lent, when many of us choose to abstain from meat or dairy products — making this the perfect time to try new vegan dishes, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health.
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Chris Garlington for The New York Times Robots assist surgeons in performing prostate cancer surgery in a growing number of medical centers.
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By DENISE GRADY
HOUSTON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords is “making leaps and bounds” in her neurological recovery, after being shot in the head on Jan. 8 in Tucson, her doctors said Friday at a news conference.
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
A panel of independent experts has harshly reviewed the World Health Organization’s handling of the 2009 epidemic of H1N1 swine flu, though it found no evidence supporting the most outlandish accusation made against the agency: that it exaggera
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By DAVID E. SANGER and MATTHEW L. WALD
As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants c
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By ELISABETH MALKIN
Mexico put its schoolchildren on a diet at the beginning of the year. But as often happens with New Year’s resolutions, there are many ways to cheat. Here is some of what is allowed for sale in schools under new guidelines that are intended t
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By JIM DWYER
We learned this week from a federal bribery case, of all places, that the going rate in 2008 to park a dying person in a hospital bed in Brooklyn was $772.80. That fee was enough to cover hospice care and, if the charges are true, a payoff to a stat
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Surgical procedures have resumed at the Veterans Affairs hospital in St. Louis more than a month after a shutdown over sterilization concerns.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The federal government told state attorneys general that it had run out of a crucial execution drug and was exploring alternatives, dashing states’ hopes of obtaining a federal supply of the drug.
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By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
As a medical student and later during my residency, I trained for some time in a medical center known for its research and clinical trials. Every week, patients with rare diseases and cancers that had not responded to standard therapy arrived from a
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By Jennifer Warner
Study Shows Compound in Broccoli May Block Defective Gene Linked to Tumor Growth
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