Health

A British nonprofit helps patients escape the stress and boredom of ward life by watching the latest blockbusters.

A lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense, an organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claims that vaccines caused the twins’ deaths. But a grand jury in Idaho has indicted her on charges of suffocating them.

Hospitals are seeing cases of children suffering serious burns amid a social media trend involving popping NeeDoh cubes into microwaves.

As the administration works to expand gun rights, hospitals and community groups have lost funding, and reports on preventing firearm injuries have vanished from government websites.

The supplement is said to help with weight loss, blood sugar, cholesterol and more. Is that too good to be true?

The number of U.S. adults taking an obesity medication has nearly quadrupled from just two years ago.

The C.D.C.’s tobacco control office has been shut for more than a year. After its most prominent antismoking campaign went off the air, calls to 1-800-QUIT-NOW lines have plummeted.

One expert calls it “the most common disease you’ve never heard of.”