HEALTH

Cancer and cancer treatments can have significant effects on sexuality and patients' ability to enjoy sex, but these issues are often not mentioned by doctors.

For years, doctors and patients thought there was little to do when dementia was diagnosed, even at an early stage. Now, potentially sweeping changes loom.

And 17 million Americans also experienced high-impact chronic pain severe enough to substantially restrict their daily activities.

Research involving Danish babies has yielded a great deal about previously unknown viruses — and the best view yet of the makeup of the infant gut microbiome.

Research shows good friendships are essential to health and well-being for seniors.

Many health care workers cite staffing problems and burnout, despite being buoyed by their mission.

The battle over whether to permanently restrict mifepristone, and whether the FDA properly approved use of the drug more than 20 years ago, continues.

States with abortion bans have seen a 10.5 percent drop in applicants for OB/GYN residencies from the previous year, according to new data.

Drugmaker’s price is ‘still too expensive for pretty much everyone I’ve ever provided it to,’ epidemiologist says.

The National Institutes of Health has not had a permanent director since December 2021, when its longtime leader stepped down.

Here's what you need to know about whether and when to get a second covid booster.

Vaccine makers are expected to charge as much as $130 per dose after the government winds down its pandemic response.

Justices will decide by midnight Wednesday whether to maintain full access to the abortion drug mifepristone while Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's ruling is appealed.

The shots would be available for people who are at least 65 years old or immune-compromised.

Eggs are very expensive right now. You'll want to make sure you're getting what you think you're paying for at the grocery store.

Men are much more likely to get skin cancer — and to die from it — than women. Here's what makes men so vulnerable to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Of the fatal overdoses, 83 percent were accidental.

But many Americans dispute the data and the risks of covid — much as they have throughout the pandemic.