New Your Times - Health - Clash of Giants: UnitedHealth Takes On Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase

By REED ABELSON
NYT Health
A lawsuit exposes how unnerved major insurers are by the Big Three’s new venture into health care benefits.
Published date: February 1, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - When Is the Surgeon Too Old to Operate?

By PAULA SPAN
NYT Health
A handful of hospitals have instituted mandatory screening procedures for medical professionals over 70. Many have been unenthusiastic about the idea.
Published date: February 1, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Sackler Scion’s Email Reveals Push for High-Dose OxyContin, New Lawsuit Disclosures Claim

By BARRY MEIER
NYT Health
Purdue Pharma tried to maximize profits by marketing the drug to keep patients on higher doses for longer periods, a lawsuit charges.
Published date: January 31, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - He Swallowed a Toothpick. It Could Have Killed Him.

By DENISE GRADY
NYT Health
For several weeks, a young athlete’s symptoms stumped doctors, despite tests and scans. Unnoticed in a sandwich or wrap, toothpicks can do a surprising amount of damage in the digestive tract, and beyond.
Published date: January 30, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says

By JAN HOFFMAN
NYT Health
A yearlong, randomized trial in England showed that e-cigarettes were almost twice as successful as products like patches or gum for smoking cessation.
Published date: January 30, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Opioid Lawsuits Are Headed to Trial. Here's Why the Stakes Are Getting Uglier.

By JAN HOFFMAN
NYT Health
The judge presiding over all the federal cases had hoped to settle them by now. But the behemoth litigation is only becoming more bloated, contentious and difficult to resolve.
Published date: January 30, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - This Is Your Brain Off Facebook

By BENEDICT CAREY
NYT Health
Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so bad.)
Published date: January 30, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Searching for the Genetic Underpinnings of Morning Persons and Night Owls

By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
NYT Health
Researchers identified hundreds of gene variations that may be connected to when people go to bed.
Published date: January 30, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Frostbite and Hypothermia: Tips to Stay Safe in Extreme Cold Weather

By KAREN ZRAICK
NYT Health
During extreme cold, the blood rushes to the center of the body to protect vital organs, and the body temperature can fall to dangerous lows. The best advice is to stay inside, experts say.
Published date: January 29, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Why It Hurts to Lose Sleep

By BENEDICT CAREY
NYT Health
Sleep deprivation can make your physical aches more painful. A new study begins to explain how that happens.
Published date: January 28, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.

By CARL ZIMMER
NYT Health
The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior, perhaps even playing a role in dementia, autism and other disorders.
Published date: January 28, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Which Allergens Are in Your Food? You Can’t Always Tell From the Labels

By ERIC ATHAS
NYT Health
Despite federal legislation passed 15 years ago, food labels don’t always alert consumers to allergens that may be present in packaged goods.
Published date: January 28, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Caroline Elton Helps Doctors Heal Themselves

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
NYT Health
The psychologist counsels doctors who are suffering even as they tend to the needs of others.
Published date: January 28, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Study Offers Hint of Hope for Staving Off Dementia in Some People

By PAM BELLUCK
NYT Health
People who received intensive treatment for hypertension were less likely to develop minor cognitive problems than those receiving standard treatment.
Published date: January 28, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - These Patients Had Sickle-Cell Disease. Experimental Therapies May Have Cured Them.

By GINA KOLATA
NYT Health
Success against sickle-cell would mark “the first genetic cure of a common genetic disease” and could free tens of thousands of Americans from agonizing pain.
Published date: January 27, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - When the Cat Needs a Painkiller

By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
NYT Health
Owners have few good options for cats that need long-term relief.
Published date: January 26, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Deadly Ebola Virus Is Found in Liberian Bat, Researchers Say

By DENISE GRADY
NYT Health
Long a suspected source of the virus, bats had not been confirmed as carriers of the lethal disease before. The discovery could help scientists learn more about how the virus infects humans.
Published date: January 24, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Spinal Fractures Can Be Terribly Painful. A Common Treatment Isn’t Helping.

By GINA KOLATA
NYT Health
Injections of bone cement into fractured vertebrae fail to relieve pain any more than a placebo does, researchers found.
Published date: January 24, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos?

By PAM BELLUCK
NYT Health
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist’s intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
Published date: January 23, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Scientists Are Teaching the Body to Accept New Organs

By GINA KOLATA
NYT Health
Patients receiving new kidneys and livers must take damaging anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. Now researchers hope to train the immune system instead of just tamping it down.
Published date: January 22, 2019 at 02:00AM