Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone…
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With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.…
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A Brazilian nun who was the world's oldest living person at 116 years old died this week. A British woman,…
The number of people choosing an assisted death could top 4,000 a year within a decade of the law coming…
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A little over two years ago, the actor Jeremy Renner was run over by a seven-ton snowplow. In a new…
This weekend, my colleagues at The New York Times Magazine are publishing a special issue all about happiness: how to…
Five years after the worldwide hyperfocus on COVID-19 began, some are concerned about the next pandemic — whether it could…