The Nobel-winning World Food Program is one of many agencies increasingly handing out cash rather than goods. Yet the international aid system still isn’t fully deploying this simple, powerful idea.

The boy was 6 years old and his parents refused to vaccinate him. He developed tetanus and landed in a hospital, the start of a weeks-long, gut-wrenching medical marathon.

Insurers could once again deny people coverage based on their medical history, undoing the law’s most popular provisions.

Policymakers in many parts of Europe and the United States are struggling to bring the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic under control. In doing so, they are repeating many of the mistakes made in...

An international consortium of researchers has reported that an Ebola vaccine appears to provide volunteers protection against the virus two years after they were injected.

The new coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Brazil, overwhelming a health care system ill prepared to handle a pandemic of this magnitude and proving especially deadly for the medical workers...

One of the world’s most boisterous and diverse democracies has embraced a proven pandemic strategy with little debate.

What Singapore’s and Hong Kong’s success is teaching us about the pandemic.

A serious global vaccination campaign would mark the beginning of a very different era of American leadership.

The health and educational risks are higher for Black and Latino families.

The vaccine is the eighth coronavirus vaccine to receive the global health body’s green light.

There’s some good news related to an Ebola outbreak that has offered very little up till now.

Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?

Be a neat freak. Wash your hands. Give to people in need. If you’re going to spread anything, spread help, compassion and humor. And do not panic.

After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.

Facing new virus mutations, European countries are tightening mask regulations.

This randomized clinical trial examines whether a layperson-delivered, empathy-focused program of telephone calls could rapidly improve loneliness, depression, and anxiety in at-risk adults.

"Masks with one-way valves or vents allow air to be exhaled through a hole in the material, which can result in expelled respiratory droplets that can reach others," the CDC says.

After the surprise discovery of an extra dose in every vial, Pfizer executives successfully lobbied the F.D.A. to change the vaccine’s formal authorization language. The company charges by the dose.

An infectious-disease expert’s long crusade against some of humanity’s most virulent threats.

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

Elephants use 20 copies of a key cancer-fighting gene—and humans just have one

Systems aren’t sexy, but they save lives, says Harvard Medical School Professor and author Atul Gawande during HUBweek events in Boston.

Regarding people as having lives of equal worth means recognizing each as having a common core of humanity. To see this humanity requires a willingness to ask people what it’s like to be in their...

In “The Panola Project,” Dorothy Oliver fights vaccine hesitancy with kindness.

The move could potentially serve all hospitals within Massachusetts as health care professionals statewide work to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

As Republicans in Congress move to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Washington state’s experience in 1990s with health-care reform may offer a lesson. Repealing unpopular parts of the state’s health...

Many hospitals lack enough thermometers to monitor the temperatures of its own staff.

What I learned when a famous 96-year-old physician became my patient.

If you can successfully block access to your nose, throat, and eyes, you may avoid infection by the coronavirus, flu, and any of several hundred other respiratory viruses.

Moderna is the second company to report preliminary results from a large trial testing a vaccine. But there are still months to go before it will be widely available to the public.

With the pandemic raging in the U.S., a new ad campaign features frontline medical personnel pleading for everyone to mask up.