
HHS Wants to Be Done With Drama, for Now
As Trump nominates a new, uncontroversial CDC director, a more restrained version of RFK Jr. is appearing.
Our health writers explore wellness culture, human behavior, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.

As Trump nominates a new, uncontroversial CDC director, a more restrained version of RFK Jr. is appearing.

Everyone’s DNA keeps mutating. Could correcting those errors lead to longevity?

First a shot to lose weight, then a pill to keep it off.

CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.

Many whole-grain foods behave in the body much the same as the refined products they were meant to replace.

Be careful asking chatbots about your health.

Can RFK Jr.’s book publisher keep the movement alive?

The Indian Health Service needs more clinical workers. The federal health officials being transferred to the agency don’t fit that bill.

Māori families with a mutation for aggressive gastric cancer have had their stomachs preemptively removed. How do you live without one?

“To me, the concept of the master diagnostician is that you’re never good enough,” one doctor said.