Health

The Nobel committee is usually looking to make a statement. Is it trying to tell us something about #MeToo—maybe even Brett Kavanaugh?

Deadly diseases like Ebola and the avian flu are only one flight away. The U.S. government must start taking preparedness seriously.

Washington nearly killed the U.N. anti-TB effort, but it didn't need to. The U.N. will do that itself.

The State Department has scaled back benefits to family members with special needs.

Families say the State Department continues to curb benefits mandated by law.

As populations age, countries will need ever more primary health workers and aides — jobs robots will never do well. So why do we treat these workers so badly?

Drug-resistant diseases are on the rise. Only a global effort to prevent overuse of antibiotics can halt the threat.

Anti-abortion activists are deploying every imaginable scare tactic to defeat a referendum that would grant Irish women the right to choose.

Everyone in the West, royalty or not, gets better maternal health care than parents in the United States.

Xi Jinping should be promoting evidence-based medicine, not quackery.

There’s a sudden outbreak of the nasty, fast-spreading norovirus — right near South Korea’s Olympic Village

The Czech Republic's populist president is running for re-election — and his ailing health is an open secret.

Are deep-pocketed medical tourists the cause of, or solution to, India's health care problems?

There’s no way we’ll be able to grapple with the coming health crises unless we fix the gaping problem of women’s empowerment in global health.

While the Trump administration praises its progress on the AIDS fight, health campaigners warn they are making the fight that much harder.

America’s drug pushers aren’t in Mexico — they’re right at home.

Americans are exhausted keeping up with Donald Trump’s every tweet. People in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen are exhausted by violence and hunger.

With the country's health services decimated by conflict, cholera is raging through the civilian population.

U.S. efforts to fight pandemics are in the country's best interest — and provide an astounding return on investment.

The ambitious plan to remake the Saudi economy is the brainchild of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But does he have what it takes to upend his country?