Closing of Live Poultry Markets Is Called Effective in Flu Fight

Chance Chan/Reuters Chinese doctors and nurses at a training course in April for the treatment of the H7N9 virus. Shutting down live poultry markets is extremely effective in preventing human cases of avian flu and should be considered if the disease...

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Contrite White House Spurns Health Law’s Critics

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Obama Defends Health Care Law: In Boston, President Obama vowed he would not let Republicans try to turn the health exchange website's problems into ammunition with the aim of overturning the health care law. ...

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Well: Assessing Your ‘Fitness Age’

This article appears in the Nov. 3, 2013 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Trying to quantify your aerobic fitness is a daunting task. It usually requires access to an exercise-physiology lab. But researchers at the Norwegian University of Science...

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Well: A Fat Dad Halloween (Hide the Candy)

Every year after trick-or-treating for Halloween, I used to hide my candy in a little paisley suitcase under my bed. Just to be safe, I even locked it so my dad would not devour the contents in one night. My sister April and I loved waiting till my...

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Well: Quit Smoking? It’s Probably Monday

If you are thinking of quitting smoking, it is probably Monday. Researchers monitored Google search queries from 2008 to 2012 in English, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Almost every week, queries about smoking cessation peaked on...

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The New Old Age: Two Kinds of Hospital Patients: Admitted, and Not

Judith Stein got a call from her mother recently, reporting that a friend was in the hospital. "Be sure she's admitted," Ms. Stein said. As executive director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, she has gotten all too savvy about this stuff. "Of...

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In Practice: People Who Buy Own Health Policies Face Big Changes

As Washington and much of the rest of the nation debate whether President Obama misled Americans when he said that people who like their health plans may keep them, tens of millions of people are finding that their insurance is largely unchanged by the...

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Well: The Marathon Runner as Couch Potato

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Someone can train for a marathon and simultaneously qualify as a couch potato, recent research shows, raising provocative questions about how sedentary most of us really are. The amount...

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Generic Rivals Sharply Erode Merck’s Results

Merck reported on Monday that its third-quarter profit plunged 35 percent because of competition from generic drugs, lower sales of its top-selling medicine, and restructuring and acquisition charges. The results still beat Wall Street's profit...

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With Suit, Parents of Boy With Seizures Press Arizona Officials on Marijuana Act

David Kadlubowski for The New York Times Jennifer and Jacob Welton, with their son Zander, 5, in Mesa, Ariz., want marijuana resins made legal. PHOENIX — Arguing that medical marijuana has been the most effective treatment for their son's seizure...

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Ohio Governor Defies G.O.P. With Defense of Social Safety Net

Ty William Wright for The New York Times Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio said of fellow Republicans in Washington, "I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor." COLUMBUS, Ohio — In his grand Statehouse office beneath a bust of...

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Health Site Puts Agency and Leader in Hot Seat

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Marilyn Tavenner, at a Senate hearing in April, leads the agency that oversaw the creation of the troubled health care website. WASHINGTON — Ten days before HealthCare.gov opened for business, Marilyn Tavenner, the obscure...

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F.D.A. Shift on Painkillers Was Years in the Making

When Heather Dougherty heard the news last week that the Food and Drug Administration had recommended tightening how doctors prescribed the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, she was overjoyed. Fourteen years earlier, her father, Dr. Ronald J....

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Health Site’s Woes Could Dissuade Vital Enrollee: the Young and Healthy

Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times Organizing For Action workers in Arlington, Va., inform the public about the launch of Obamacare on Oct. 1. WASHINGTON — Sean Jackson, like tens of thousands of other Americans, has had trouble signing up for...

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Well: Children, Too, Need Flu Shots

Seasonal flu killed 830 children from 2004 to 2012, and 43 percent of them had no high-risk medical conditions. The rest of the children had neurological, pulmonary, cardiac and other serious disorders. A new report, published in Pediatrics, used data...

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Well: Commuting’s Hidden Cost

My twin grandsons, now 13, walk nearly a mile to and from school and play basketball in the schoolyard for an hour or more most afternoons, when weather and music lessons permit. The boys, like their father, are lean, strong and healthy. Their parents...

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Vocations: For a Traveling Nurse, Freedom to Roam

Anne McQuary for The New York Times Monica Parks has had contracts that run from six or eight to 13 weeks, and they've often been renewed. Monica Parks, 43, of Easley, S.C., has been working as a traveling nurse since 2007. Q. Why did you decide...

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Applied Science: Maybe Heaven Can Wait, but a Customer Can’t

"Patience is a virtue," we are taught. And when you think about it, much of our life is spent waiting for something rather than experiencing it, so that waiting becomes an experience in itself, filled with anticipation, annoyance, boredom or fear....

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The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times An NJOY e-cigarette. A pioneer in its industry, NJOY now has 200 rivals, including major tobacco companies. Geoff Vuleta was in the crowd at a Rolling Stones concert last year when Keith Richards lit up a cigarette...

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Few Problems With Cannabis for California

LOS ANGELES — In the heart of Northern California's marijuana growing region, the sheriff's office is inundated each fall with complaints about the stench of marijuana plots or the latest expropriation of public land by growers. Its tranquil communities...

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