Consumer Safety Agency Studies Adult Bedrail Deaths

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday released a review of bedrail deaths and injuries of adults as it considered how to address potential hazards associated with the products. Using data from death certificates and hospital...

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In Study, Fears That Life Insurers Are Courting Reserve Risk

WASHINGTON — After more than a year studying a surge of intricate financial deals in the life insurance industry, regulators said Thursday that they had found transactions that could "give the industry a black eye," but could not agree on what to do...

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Ranbaxy, a Generic Drug Maker, Stops Making Cholesterol Pill

Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, the largest producer of the generic version of Lipitor, has halted production of the drug until it can figure out why glass particles may have ended up in pills that were distributed to the public, the Food and Drug Administration...

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Hockey Coaches Defy Doctors on Concussions, Study Finds

Despite several years of intensive research, coverage and discussion about the dangers of concussions, the idea of playing through head injuries is so deeply rooted in hockey culture that two university teams kept concussed players on the ice even...

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Phys Ed: Keeping Your Eye on the Ball

Recently, researchers in England set out to determine whether weekend golfers could improve their game through one of two approaches. Some were coached on individual swing technique, while others were instructed to gaze fixedly at the ball before putting....

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Hypothermia and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Cases Soar in New York After Hurricane Sandy

The number of cold-exposure cases in New York City tripled in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck compared with the same period in previous years, the health department reported in an alert to thousands of doctors and other health care providers...

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Medicare Is Faulted in Electronic Medical Records Conversion

The conversion to electronic medical records — a critical piece of the Obama administration's plan for health care reform — is "vulnerable" to fraud and abuse because of the failure of Medicare officials to develop appropriate safeguards, according...

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Cost of Brand-Name Prescription Medicines Soaring

The price of brand-name prescription medicines is rising far faster than the inflation rate, while the price of generic drugs has plummeted, creating the largest gap so far between the two, according to a report published Wednesday by the pharmacy...

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Tobacco Companies Are Told to Correct Lies About Smoking

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they had lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a...

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Nurses Sue Douglas Kennedy for $200,000

Yana Paskova for The New York Times Two nurses have accused Douglas Kennedy, a son of Robert F. Kennedy, of assault and battery, negligence and causing them emotional and physical distress after an episode involving his newborn son. Connect...

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F.D.A. May Tap Experts on Energy Drinks

The Food and Drug Administration said in a letter released on Tuesday that it was likely to seek advice from outside experts to help determine whether energy drinks posed particular risks to teenagers or people with underlying health problems. The...

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Amid Hurricane Sandy, a Race to Get a Liver Transplant

Charles Manley/The New York Times Vin and Dolores Dreeland with their daughter Natalia and Dr. Tomoaki Kato, second left, and Dr. Nadia Ovchinsky, center, at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. It was the best possible news,...

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Letters: Cycle of Birth and Death (1 Letter)

To the Editor: Re "Amid Cosmic Fatigue, Scarcely a Star Is Born" (Out There, Nov. 20): Though one may bemoan the rapidly declining birthrate of stars, the inescapable fact is that everything ends. People live for about 80 years, but any one of us...

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Global Update: Investing in Eyeglasses for Poor Would Boost International Economy

BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images Eliminating the worldwide shortage of eyeglasses could cost up to $28 billion, but would add more than $200 billion to the global economy, according to a study published last month in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization....

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Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders

For years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as...

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Books: Woe Is Syphilis, and Other Afflictions of Famous Writers

The old Irishman was a swollen, wheezing mess, blood pressure wildly out of control, kidneys failing, heart fibrillating. "What we have here," said his new Spanish doctor, "is an antique cardiorenal sclerotic of advanced years." In fact, what the...

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M.I.T. Lab Hatches Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens

HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spun out companies...

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Well: Mindful Medicine for the Terminally Ill

The woman was terminally ill with advanced cancer, and the oncologist who had been treating her for three years thought the next step might be to deliver chemotherapy directly to her brain. It was a risky treatment that he knew would not, could not,...

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Agency Investigates Deaths and Injuries Associated With Bed Rails

Thomas Patterson for The New York Times Gloria Black's mother died in her bed at a care facility. In November 2006, when Clara Marshall began suffering from the effects of dementia, her family moved her into the Waterford at Fairway Village, an...

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Dr. Eben Alexander’s Tells of Near Death in ‘Proof of Heaven’

For years Dr. Eben Alexander III had dismissed near-death revelations of God and heaven as explainable by the hard wiring of the human brain. He was, after all, a neurosurgeon with sophisticated medical training. But then in 2008 Dr. Alexander contracted...

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