This delicious salad resulted from an effort to create a hearty vegetarian dish while at the same time offering a delicious gluten-free option that the whole family would enjoy.
Should patients be held responsible for not showing up for follow-up tests and procedures? Does the medical profession have an ethical and legal duty to try to track down the individuals?
People who took part in a sterilization drive in the state of Chhattisgarh that led to 13 deaths described an assembly-line atmosphere with little regard for hygiene.
The computer model identifies a range of factors related to suicide that could allow doctors to follow high-risk soldiers closely and take preventive measures.
Many people who take up an exercise regimen wind up heavier, but a simple strategy may improve people’s odds of actually dropping pounds with exercise.
A reader, Jessica Benoit, offers this fall version of panzanella, inspired by her first Thanksgiving abroad and thoughts of the traditional stuffing her family ate during holidays in New England.
Tom Lancaster, 37 (left), and Thillai Sathiyaseelan, 52. They were part of a team that developed smart insulin, a drug that is sensitive to blood-sugar levels, and are now working on a drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Our high-tech process of pharmaceutical research is broken — and the solution might be old-fashioned trial and error.
A police officer on guard outside the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali, where a patient with the country's second confirmed case of Ebola died.
The West African nation of Mali, which just beat its first outbreak of Ebola, has confirmed a second one that is larger and more threatening, global health authorities said on Wednesday.
As the rate of new infections has slowed, American and Liberian officials are debating whether to shift money that was planned for the centers into other programs to combat future outbreaks.
Until now, experimental treatments have mainly been available to the small number of patients treated in the United States and Europe, not Africans at the epidemic’s epicenter.
Questions and answers on the scale of the outbreak and the science of the Ebola virus.
Children enjoying a sprinkler at a playground in Brooklyn in July. Children below age 6 may be more vulnerable to playground injuries because of parents who are focused on their smartphones, according to a study.
A new paper argues that the wide adoption of smartphones, along with the distractions caused by them, has led to more playground injuries.
Many states will have more workers in call centers this year and more enrollment events to help people through the insurance sign-up process.
The Department of Health and Human Services said fewer than 10 million people would have coverage purchased through insurance exchanges by the end of 2015.
The body of knowledge about how the brain works is growing, but so is the list of gaps in our understanding. Larry Abbott, a former theoretical physicist, is looking for models to fill them in.
The agency intends to initiate a bureau to focus on customer service training, and have facilities forge tighter bonds with local groups and lawmakers.
A draft decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would extend coverage for CT scans to Medicare beneficiaries who smoked at least a pack a day for 30 years or the equivalent.
The decisions American women make are often more strongly influenced by fear or a friend’s experience than by a thorough understanding of the benefits and risks of mammography.
By analyzing samples from each of the five New York City boroughs, Jane M. Carlton hopes to detect viruses before an outbreak.
About 6,000 trips to the emergency room by children under age 6 were connected to the laundry packets in 2012 and 2013, the report found.
Dendreon filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after sales of Provenge fell way short of expectations and the company could not pay off a huge debt coming due.
Government inspection reports about limited access to Medicaid tell a different story than surveys of actual patients.
The conference, Unicef’s first to focus on the connection, explores ways of encouraging better sanitation so children can avoid the consequences of stunting.
Baked stuffed acorn squash.
A substantial vegetarian Thanksgiving main dish.
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In part of Borneo, a parasite called Plasmodium knowlesi causes severe malaria three times as often as Plasmodium falciparum, which has long been considered the deadliest form of the disease, new research suggests.
Titles, fundamentally based on the sciences, as selected by the science editors from all adult nonfiction books reported to The New York Times for the month.
The New York Times is offering a free mobile app for the popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout and the new Advanced 7-minute Workout.
If you live with breast cancer, love someone with breast cancer or worry about your risk for breast cancer, you are part of a global community of women and men whose lives have been touched by the disease.
After a fall, life is upended in an instant — a sudden loss of independence, an awkward reliance on family and friends, and a new level of fear for those who fall, and their contemporaries.
Experts who have studied falls wish that people would take measures to protect themselves much as they do against heart disease or viral infections.
As Americans live longer, fall-related injuries and deaths are rising, and homes for the elderly are tackling the problem in ways large and small — even by changing the color of their carpeting and toilet seats.
What is it like to live with a chronic disease, mental illness or confusing condition? In Patient Voices, we feature first person accounts of the challenges patients face as they cope with various health issues.
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