Health

On the afternoon of Friday, February 7, as staff members were getting ready to leave the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health, just outside Washington, D.C., officials in the...

Personalized mRNA vaccines show promise as pancreatic cancer treatment, a phase 1 clinical trial published Wednesday in Nature found.  Fewer than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Florence Makumene held a plastic container of and wondered if it would be her last as fears swelled of a return to a time decades ago when...

LONDON — Vatican officials said late Tuesday that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery. The 88-year-old pope was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong...

ROME — Pope Francis slept well, got out of bed and ate breakfast Wednesday, the Vatican said, after tests confirmed the 88-year-old pontiff had developed pneumonia in both lungs in...

MANILA, Philippines — A village in the densely populated Philippine capital region launched a battle against Wednesday by offering a token bounty to residents for captured mosquitos — dead or...

ROME — Pope Francis slept well and ate breakfast Wednesday, the Vatican said, after he developed pneumonia in both lungs in a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old...

When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training years. Henderson,...

Pope Francis has contracted double pneumonia, further complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff, the Vatican has said. The Vatican on Tuesday said Francis’s respiratory infection also involves asthmatic bronchitis, which...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President on Tuesday signed an executive order to study how to expand access to in vitro fertilization and make it more affordable. The order calls...