Well: Vegan Recipes for Health

If one of your goals for 2013 is more healthful eating, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman can get you started. She has pr...

Question Mark: Why Am I Getting Shorter With Age?

Sal DiMarco Jr. for The New York Times The upward trajectory of youth starts falling for most people after 40. In a file photo, a Macungie, ...

Employers Must Offer Family Health Care, Affordable or Not, Administration Says

WASHINGTON — In a long-awaited interpretation of the new health care law, the Obama administration said Monday that employers must offer hea...

Study Suggests Lower Death Risk for the Overweight

A century ago, Elsie Scheel was the perfect woman. So said a 1912 article in The New York Times about how Miss Scheel, 24, was chosen by the...

Essay: In Pursuit of Answers One May Not Want to Know

I jogged into the Stanford Cancer Clinic with my boyfriend, the youngest people there by two decades. We stood there sweating and holding ha...

Well: Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain

Anyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests t...

Surgery Returns to NYU Langone Medical Center

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Senator Charles E. Schumer spoke at a news conference Thursday about the reopening of NYU Langone Medical Ce...

Measles: Measles Epidemic Is Spreading in Central Africa

Jehad Nga for The New York Times An internally displaced persons camp in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to recent vi...

Well: Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain

Anyone whose resolve to exercise in 2013 is a bit shaky might want to consider an emerging scientific view of human evolution. It suggests t...

Books: From Bang to Whimper: A Heart Drug’s Story

On June 23, 2005, American medicine managed to take a small step forward and a giant step backward at precisely the same time, with governme...

News Analysis: The Perils of Yoga for Men

MEN are famous for ignoring aches and pains. It’s macho. Men get physical exams less often than women. They tend to remain silent if worried...

Genetic Gamble : New Drugs Aim to Make Cells Destroy Cancer

C.J. Gunther for The New York Times Dr. Donald Bergstrom is a cancer specialist at Sanofi, one of three companies working on a drug to resto...

For Tracy Anderson, Fitness Expert, Always a New Move

Erin Baiano for The New York Times Tracy Anderson, center, teaching a fitness class at her studio in TriBeCa. Her classes and DVDs have attr...

Lawyer Says Ritual Circumcision Is Protected Activity

A lawyer for Orthodox Jewish groups asked a federal judge on Tuesday to throw out a New York City regulation requiring parents to sign a con...

Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion

Lorna Tilley DISABLED Almost all the other skeletons at the Man Bac site, south of Hanoi, are straight. But the man now called Burial 9 was ...

Well: A Running Bias Against Really Dedicated Runners

From the moment it appeared online last month, an editorial in the journal Heart became a Rorschach test for opinions about runners. Do you ...

Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Cochlear Implant, Dies

Dr. William F. House, a medical researcher who braved skepticism to invent the cochlear implant, an electronic device considered to be the f...