New York Times

Daniel L. Doctoroff, a former deputy mayor, has enlisted Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in a drive to research the disease that killed Lou Gehrig.

In the new medical TV drama "Monday Mornings," senior doctors publicly attack their younger colleagues. Such heated exchanges may make for good television, but new strategies have emerged for dealing with medical mistakes.

The rhythms of poetry can help make sense of what is happening for those facing a cancer diagnosis.

After decades in which smoking by people with mental illness was supported and even encouraged, a move in Louisiana reflects a broader effort to reverse course.

Pressured by looming regulations, restaurants across the United States are shrinking portion sizes, a move that is paying off financially.

The goal of a five-year study, based at New York University’s medical school, is to find reliable, objective evidence of “invisible injuries” of war.

A program brings in teenagers from around Philadelphia in the hope that seeing the effects of violence will deter them from reaching for a gun to settle a score.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a graduate of Yale Law School, is scheduled to make remarks at a conference sponsored by PepsiCo, a company some alumni see as a health threat.

The report, which examined conditions at Stafford Hospital over a 50-month period between 2005 and 2009, found that many of the problems were due to the efforts of the hospital to meet health-service targets.

Mikyoung Kim, a Boston-based landscape architect, recently completed two therapeutic gardens for hospitals.

Many addiction treatment programs are rooted in outdated methods rather than new evidence-based approaches, dooming many addicts to failure.

Gender-distinct pricing is a strategy that will raise long-term care insurance rates for single women by as much as 40 percent beginning in April.

Avoiding gluten is a must for those with celiac disease, but many people are going gluten-free in a bid for a healthy diet.

A series of recent studies involving runners, walkers, metronomes and virtual reality curtains suggests that while the tug of physiological laziness is strong, it can be controlled, or at least tweaked, with some conscious effort -- and perhaps your iPhone playlist.

Since Paul Mason had gastric bypass surgery in 2010 after weighing about 980 pounds, he has lost nearly two-thirds of his body weight, but the road to a new life is uphill.

Since Paul Mason had gastric bypass surgery in 2010 after weighing about 980 pounds, he has lost nearly two-thirds of his body weight, but the road to a new life is uphill.

Long Island College Hospital, in northern Brooklyn, was losing too much money, said Dr. John Williams, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which runs it.

Women start with millions of eggs, which disappear with increasing frequency as menopause approaches.

A series of two- to three-minute Web episodes by Luna takes a lighthearted approach to nutrition misinformation.

The group As You Sow said nanoparticles, the size of molecules, have been found in the blood stream after ingestion and inhalation.