If you find that the blistering, unrelenting heat is making you anxious and irritable, even depressed, it’s not all in your head. Soaring temperatures can damage...
The uptick in coronavirus transmission this summer has not brought major alarm from health experts. But it is raising questions about whether the risks are high...
The prevailing theory about why the peacocks flocked to suburban Pinecrest is that, like many a Floridian, they went hunting for better real estate. Long a...
New arrivals get full physical exams. “You never know what you’re going to find,” said Dr. Raven Jackson, director of veterinary care. Males receive vasectomies to...
A new obesity drug, Wegovy, slashed the risk of serious heart problems by 20 percent in a large trial, the drug’s maker said on Tuesday, a...
During the five decades that followed Roe vs. Wade, lawsuit after lawsuit in states across the country chipped away at abortion rights. And again and again,...
Imagine being a teenager burdened with the constant fear of an unplanned pregnancy and having to secretly visit the doctor between school and homework to get...
Off the western shores of Central and South America, there is a Lovecraftian, lava-licked realm thousands of feet beneath the ocean. There, on the seafloor, volcanically...
When Michelle Reininger went to bed on Thursday, June 15, she wasn’t worried about the weather. The last time she checked, the forecast had called for...
California regulators have fined Centinela Hospital Medical Center $75,000 after faulting the Inglewood hospital for “deficient practices” that led to a patient dying while admitted there...
