By ANAHAD O’CONNOR and LINDSAY CROUSE
Clara Horowitz Peterson, an elite runner, mother of three and expecting, talks about training during and after pregnancy.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
This is the first time scientists have been able to breed mice that developed Ebola infections resembling those in humans complete with some puzzling features seen in people.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
Improved perceptions of aging can lead to increases in physical strength, an unusual study finds.
Published: October 29, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By SUSAN GUBAR
Doctors make mistakes, but they don’t like to talk about them, writes Susan Gubar, who suffered from medical mistakes made during surgery to remove ovarian cancer.
Published: October 29, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By DEBORAH BLUM
Even trace amounts of arsenic in drinking water may increase the risk of heart disease, researchers have found.
Published: October 29, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By DANIELA J. LAMAS, M.D.
It was only when I walked into the room and saw my patient still and utterly silent, his tired family sitting around the bed, that I realized no one had ever told me precisely how to declare death.
Published: October 29, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By JEN A. MILLER
Popular research tells me that if I put in 10,000 hours or 10 years of training, I can become a master at anything.
Published: October 29, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Telling people of their potential increased risk of colon cancer did not spur them to get the recommended screening.
Published: October 28, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
Groups like Doctors Without Borders are reporting that they suddenly have far more beds than patients in West Africa, but it is unclear whether the Ebola epidemic is truly waning.
Published: October 28, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease.
Published: October 27, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
An enhanced interactive feature allows readers to join a global community of women and men whose lives have been touched by breast cancer. Share your story, find someone like you or join the conversation at the Faces of Breast Cancer project.
Published: October 27, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Many runners in Sunday’s New York City Marathon may be overlooking a simple way to improve their finishing time.
Published: October 28, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
More than 50 children have had mysterious episodes of paralysis in 23 states and some doctors suspect a link to the enterovirus 68, a respiratory virus that has sickened thousands of youngsters.
Published: October 28, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By STEVEN PETROW
The reaction to the actress’s recent appearance is helping me accept my face as-is.
Published: October 27, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
In general, fear of toilet seats is overdone, but the transmission of the Ebola virus in a bathroom used by an infectious patient is a real risk.
Published: October 27, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
A major study in India has stunned advocates of latrine building by showing that it may do little good.
Published: October 27, 2014 at 08:00PM
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
The phenomenon of “decision fatigue” has been found in judges, who are more likely to deny bail at the end of the day than at the beginning. Now researchers have found a parallel effect in physicians.
Published: October 26, 2014 at 08:00PM
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