Health

Twitch changes course, will now require masks at TwitchCon

By Sean Hollister August 12

Amazon is getting into mental health care with a Ginger partnership

By Nicole Wetsman August 12

Opioid addiction treatment is collateral damage in online prescription backlash

By Nicole Wetsman August 11

Monkeypox outbreak: everything you need to know

By Nicole Wetsman and Mary Beth Griggs August 10

Amazon sold unauthorized mole removers, and the FDA isn’t happy about it

By Nicole Wetsman August 9

Climate change can make most human diseases worse

By Nicole Wetsman August 8

How to set up sleep schedules in iOS

By Victoria Song August 8

Biden administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency

By Nicole Wetsman August 4

Monkeypox can’t use the same at-home testing playbook as COVID-19

By Nicole Wetsman August 4

Patients did DIY blood draws in a new vaccine study

By Nicole Wetsman August 3

Meta sued for violating patient privacy with data tracking tool

By Nicole Wetsman August 2

Natural Cycles now accepts temperature data from the Oura smart ring

By Nicole Wetsman August 2

The US organ transplant network is built on shaky technology, reports say

By Nicole Wetsman August 1

DeepMind found the structure of nearly every protein known to science

By Nicole Wetsman July 28

Playing video games all summer won’t make you feel worse

By Nicole Wetsman July 27

FDA warnings aren’t stopping illicit weight-loss supplements

By Nicole Wetsman July 26

The White House wants to make next-gen COVID-19 vaccines

By Nicole Wetsman July 25

Monkeypox is now a global emergency, World Health Organization says

By Mary Beth Griggs July 23

The ‘abortion pill’ could also be birth control — and activists are trying to prove it

By Lux Alptraum July 23

YouTube says it will remove ‘unsafe’ DIY abortion guides

By Adi Robertson July 21

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Amazon is buying ‘membership-based’ healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9 billion

By Richard Lawler July 21

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New ‘988’ mental health crisis hotline launches Saturday

By Nicole Wetsman July 15

FDA authorizes Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

By Nicole Wetsman July 13

Genetically engineered pig hearts transplanted into dead people

By Nicole Wetsman July 12

FTC says it will crack down on medical and location data sharing after abortion privacy concerns

By Corin Faife July 11

FDA to consider ‘mini’ over-the-counter birth control pill

By Nicole Wetsman July 11

President Biden signs order on abortion care and patient privacy

By Makena Kelly July 8

California will start making affordable insulin on its own, governor says

By Mary Beth Griggs July 8

Wearables were starting to demystify reproductive health — then Roe fell

By Nicole Wetsman July 8

Sunny Balwani found guilty of defrauding Theranos investors and patients

By Nicole Wetsman July 7

FDA suspends Juul ban during appeal process

By Nicole Wetsman July 6

Apple Watch Series 8 will reportedly be able to detect if you have a fever

By Emma Roth July 3

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