Lauren Dunn

The test, which the FDA said could produce false negatives, got emergency use authorization in March.

Diagnostic tests are no longer in short supply, but questions about their accuracy are growing.

Public health experts worry that a ‘hot vax summer’ could lead to new spikes in infections spread through sex.

Many insurance companies won’t cover the expensive drugs, and even among patients who can afford them, a massive shortage has limited availability.

Hospitals are supposed to be safe havens during times of war, but attacks against hospitals and health care facilities in conflict zones are becoming more common worldwide, human rights experts say. During the first week of the war between Israel and Hamas, there were 94 attacks on health care facilities in Israel and Gaza, which killed 29 health care workers and injured 24, according to the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, or SHCC, a human rights advocacy group. “The number of atta…

Adnan Sawada was at work in Maryland on Oct. 17 when he got a frantic phone call from thousands of miles away in Gaza. It was his 36-year-old nephew calling with devastating news. His father, Adnan’s oldest brother, had just died at a Gaza hospital. “His son was screaming,” Adnan said in a phone interview. “They got to him too late.” Shaaban Sawada, Adnan’s brother, is one of the countless Gaza residents who were injured in airstrikes but were then unable to receive the care they needed at the e…

After Alabama’s state Supreme Court ruling on IVF, doctors are warning that women using in vitro fertilization and their babies could face major health risks — and young cancer patients could lose the chance to build a future family — if fertility clinics stop using frozen embryos. “That is a possible reality,” said Dr. Irene Dimitriadis, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at the Mass General Fertility Center in Boston. “It hurts me to think of it because that means we’re…

The increase comes as the average number of abortions per month in the U.S. is also rising, according to new research.

The hallucinogen has grown in popularity in recent years as an off-label treatment for depression, but experts say it can be addictive and must be used in a controlled setting.

Dozens of hospital workers are unaccounted for, unreachable by phone and possibly stuck in inaccessible areas.