Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of this magazine. It was 1996, and I had just turned 35 when my doctor sent me for an initial screening — a relatively common practice at the time — that would serve as...

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Video Scrutinizes Late-Term Abortion Practices at Bronx Clinic

Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said the group would release more videos as part of its campaign against late-term abortions. Sunday's video was shot at the Dr. Emily Women's Health Center on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. The release comes as...

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Arizona Haven for Deaf Faces Discrimination Charges

Joshua Lott for The New York Times Mary Susan Case in her apartment at Apache ASL Trails, a subsidized complex in Tempe, Ariz. TEMPE, Ariz. — When the subsidized housing complex for senior citizens opened its doors here last year, it already had...

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Well: An Exam With Poor Results

In America, when a woman goes to her gynecologist, she is typically given a pelvic exam whether or not she has symptoms or concerns that might warrant one. That's one reason an estimated 63.4 million pelvic exams are performed annually in this country....

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Well: Spring Pasta Recipes for Health

To make a quick meal with spring vegetables, try one of these new pasta dishes from Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman. She writes: The beautiful, sweet vegetables of spring ― artichokes and peas, favas and tender young asparagus, spring...

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Living With Cancer: Living Without Hair

While packing up scarves and hats to mail to a member of my cancer support group, I remember her lament. "After the major loss of body parts, why do I weep over my lost hair?" she wondered. "I know it will grow back, but somehow it feels like the last...

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Well: God and Doctor

When he came to the hospital, he did not look well. You might think that everyone with a recent leukemia diagnosis appears ill, but that isn't true. Some go to their primary care doctor with vague complaints of feeling tired or of having a cold, and...

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U.S. Files 2nd Suit Accusing Novartis of Kickbacks to Doctors

The United States government on Friday announced its second civil fraud lawsuit against the Swiss drug maker Novartis in four days, accusing a unit of the company of paying multimillion-dollar kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescribing its drugs....

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New Bird Flu Strain Spreads Outside of China

BEIJING — The new strain of avian influenza that has infected more than 100 people in China in the last two months has, for the first time, been reported outside mainland China. Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images On Tuesday, people...

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Legal Aid Ordered for Mentally Disabled Immigrants

A federal judge in California has ordered immigration courts in three states to provide legal representation for immigrants with mental disabilities who are in detention and facing deportation, if they cannot represent themselves. The decision is the...

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Boston Bomb Victims’ Hidden Injury: Hearing Loss

Initially preoccupied by the severe injuries sustained by victims of the Boston bombings, hospitals are now grappling with a more subtle medical consequence: widespread hearing loss among those closest to the blasts. Acoustic trauma of this sort...

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Study Ties Autism Risk to Creases in Placenta

After most pregnancies, the placenta is thrown out, having done its job of nourishing and supporting the developing baby. But a new study raises the possibility that analyzing the placenta after birth may provide clues to a child's risk for developing...

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Smoking? Combat? Wait Until 21 to Decide, Young Recruits Say

Nicole Michell Phipps, a soft-spoken 21-year-old woman in a furry hood who showed up at the Navy recruitment center in Harlem on Tuesday, said she was drawn to the military in search of more "structure" in her life. She was hesitating about signing...

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U.S. Accuses Novartis of Providing Kickbacks

Federal prosecutors in New York filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Novartis of providing illegal kickbacks to pharmacies, in the form of discounts and rebates, to promote use of one of the company's drugs. "Using the lure of kickbacks disguised...

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‘Accountable Care’ Helping Hospitals Keep Medical Costs Down

Nathan Weber for The New York Times Noraine Scarpelli, at an Advocate Health Care hospital. CHICAGO — On a stormy evening this spring, nurses at Dr. Gary Stuck's family practice were on the phone with patients with heart ailments, asking them not...

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Well: Do We Have to Cool Down After Exercise?

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Do you often, if guiltily, skip cooling down after exercise? A small but soothing body of new research suggests that you aren't missing out on much. Most of us were taught in elementary...

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New York Proposes Raising Minimum Age for Cigarette Purchases

Victor J. Blue for The New York Times A store in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that sells cigarettes. The legal age for buying them should be raised to 21, some city leaders say. The age to legally buy cigarettes in New York City would rise to 21 from 18...

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Day Centers Lure Fit Elders and Bill Medicaid

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Clients of R & G Social Adult Day Care Center in Brooklyn can get takeout lunch. Some travel to the center by bicycle. Scores of elderly Russian immigrants played bingo under the chandeliers of a former funeral...

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Price of Recovery May Place Another Burden on Boston Victims

Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Victims of the Boston Marathon bombings waited to be treated on April 15 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. More Photos » WASHINGTON — For victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, the terrible...

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Motherlode Blog: Study Links Autism With Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy

A cautiously worded study based on data collected in Sweden has found that "in utero exposure to both selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (S.S.R.I.'s) and nonselective monoamine reuptake inhibitors (tricyclic antidepressants) was associated with...

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