Health & Science

Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the first report that brought AIDS to the attention of the public.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world — and that spending is going up every year. In some re ...

Trikafta costs $360,000 a year per cystic fibrosis patient, a big price the government has hesitated to approve.

Births are a high-risk, low-return part of the health business. The city’s hospitals rallied together a decade ago. Is a new challenge ahead?

A lack of diversity has persisted for years in the U.S, limiting patients' access to potentially effective new drugs and therapies.

Artificial intelligence has seen huge advances in the last decade, very notably in the technology of natural language processing. NLP has ...

Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday that smaller sites can handle the dwindling demand for vaccines.

Intelligent machines will play a much larger role in the future than they do now, and we’re trying to imagine that future as we’re ra ...

Of the 50,000 COVID-19 cases diagnosed since the start of the year, 99.3% of the patients were unvaccinated people.

Leaving the French Open, Osaka says she's suffered long bouts of depression since 2018. Top athletes praised her bravery and decried systems that don't give athletes support.

Biden's budget follows through on a campaign promise to overturn the Hyde Amendment, a longstanding ban on federal funding for most abortions.

The gritty strip of Northeast Boulevard is targeted for comprehensive redevelopment. The Produce Spot emerged ‘organically’ when two sisters went into business.

Pennsylvania has started spraying insecticide on spotted lanternflies, a new strategy that state officials are using in an attempt to slow the spread of the invasive pest.

Starting Monday, restaurants and businesses no longer have capacity limits or physical distancing requirements.

If you have certain conditions, or are taking certain medications, parts of your immune system may function less effectively. Here’s what we know.