The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to add new warnings to antidepressants about unproven ...

A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive. Women say the affordable prostheses are a relief and ...

More and more countries are legalizing medically assisted death. But even as the concept gains acceptance, there are difficult, unresolved questions about who should be eligible.

The FDA's top drug regulator, Tracy Beth Hoeg, MD, PhD, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to ...

Depression relief was the primary driver of disease improvement among patients with fibromyalgia and prominent anxiety and depression symptoms.

Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical change in their environment. However, our study shows that taking small steps to learn practical ...

Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling partners with Washington State Health Care Authority's State Problem Gambling ...

Officials and policymakers say direct-to-consumer drug advertising encourages patients to seek treatments they don’t need and ...

After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long been part of her life, but something deeper, more ...

Aging means “becoming a target” of the industry, one expert said. After decades of debate, politicians of all stripes are proposing bans. By Paula Span Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 ...