Health

In an announcement on Friday, the head of the beleaguered agency said she would step down in June. “We made this world a safer place,” she said.

With the official end of the public health emergency next week, the agency will no longer report community levels of infection and will stop trying to tally every case.

Most of the deaths occurred during the early months of the year and mostly among older adults, according to new federal data.

Many police departments prohibit their officers from employing the kind of neck restraints a man used in fatally subduing Jordan Neely in the New York City subway.

The longer a person’s telomeres, researchers found, the greater the risk of cancer and other disorders, challenging a popular hypothesis about the chromosomal roots of vitality.

Peter K. Ben Embarek led a contentious international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

From 2011 to 2020, the proportion of mental health-related visits to emergency rooms by young people roughly doubled, health experts report.

Protection may last even longer, scientists reported. The finding may be a boon to low-income countries, where cervical cancer takes an enormous toll.

Donanemab is not a cure and comes with significant side effects, but patients had longer periods of independent living while on the drug.