The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.

Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.

Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”

How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.

Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.

At work and at home, pregnancy alters the COVID experience.

On the future of air travel.

It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.

Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.

On losing your Beloved in 2020.

Inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, the first Covid-19 hot spot in the U.S., where 46 people associated with the nursing home died.

The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

For many trans people, getting gender-affirming surgery can be life saving. But a complicated and quickly expanding system can sometimes leaves patients feeling left behind.

Tennessee’s sick and dying coal ash cleanup workers fight for their lives.

Giving birth as a black woman in America.

Groups protesting lockdown measures see the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for tyranny—and as an opportunity for spreading rage.

If something isn’t done now, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill as many as 10 million people a year by 2050.

Far too many county jail inmates are dying from suicide, a cause of death critics say can be prevented with reasonable health care services. The problem? Private correctional health care firms may have a goal other than providing adequate care.

How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.”