THE NEW YORK TIMES – Health | Consumers & Shopping

The committee, whose members were appointed by the health secretary and include vaccine skeptics, will meet on Thursday to review recommendations for several shots. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.” ...[TheTopNews] Read More.

Behind the scenes, major pharmaceutical companies and Trump-tied billionaires are furiously lobbying in opposite directions over proposed anti-China measures. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.