The Biden administration announced expansive new protections on Friday for gay and transgender medical patients, prohibiting federally funded health providers and insurers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The new rule reverses a policy instituted by the Trump administration and helps to fulfill part of President Biden’s vow to restore…
President Biden on Monday signed an executive order to expand the federal government’s research into women’s health, including midlife conditions like menopause, arthritis and heart disease, as well as issues specifically affecting women in the military. In what the White House described as the “most comprehensive” action by a president on women’s health research, Mr.…
California has about 12 percent of the nation’s population but more than a quarter of America’s homeless people — 181,000-plus at last count. There are many reasons for this outsize problem, including generations-old state laws that deinstitutionalized mentally ill people as well as high housing costs that have since priced tens of thousands out of…
Former President Donald J. Trump posted a fawning but vague health report from his doctor on Monday that declares that Mr. Trump’s health is “excellent” and that he has recently lost weight through an “improved diet” and “daily physical activity.” Mr. Trump’s physician, Dr. Bruce Aronwald, wrote the single-page report over two months after Mr.…
Ady Barkan, a well-known activist who campaigned for Medicare for all while struggling with the terminal neurodegenerative disease A.L.S., has died. He was 39. His death was announced on Wednesday by Be a Hero, a political organization he co-founded in 2018. Mr. Barkan died of complications of A.L.S. at about 6 p.m. local time at…
Nearly three months before Robert R. Card II fatally shot 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, a gun shop declined to give him a firearm silencer he had purchased after he disclosed on a form that he had mental health issues, the shop’s owner said in an interview Sunday. Mr. Card, 40, went to pick up…
It has been decades since there was any real uncertainty at the top of the Republican Party in the Senate. But Senator Mitch McConnell’s alarming freeze-up at a news conference on Wednesday at the Capitol, as well as new disclosures about other recent falls, have shaken his colleagues and intensified quiet discussion about how long…
WASHINGTON — President Biden will announce on Monday that he will nominate Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon who became the director of the National Cancer Institute in October, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, filling a position that has been vacant for more than a year. Dr. Bertagnolli…
Two months ago, seven United Nations human rights investigators sent the U.S. government a protest over health care for detainees at Guantánamo Bay that described troubling treatment of an Iraqi prisoner who is now disabled. The United States never replied, and over the weekend the U.N. Human Rights Council released the 18-page report by the…
“When you’re a physician, you have to call out that you just don’t know,” said Dr. James Kravec, an internist and the chief clinical officer of Mercy Health-Youngstown, which has a primary care practice in East Palestine. “With high blood pressure or diabetes, it’s pretty straightforward. Right now, doctors want to run a test —…