Health and Wellness | Opinion

The best supplements are exercise, a good diet and strong relationships.

By Brad Stulberg

The president is a classic aging case playing out for the country to watch.

By Rachael Bedard

We’re seeing what a modern disinformation operation run by the U.S. looks like. It’s not pretty.

By David Wallace-Wells

Some kids are unable to get the care they need because of a shortage of pediatricians, and the problem could get worse.

By Aaron E. Carroll

It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.

By Kat Morgan and Mark Bittman

We live in an age when people can live longer and healthier even with significant health conditions. What does this mean for future presidents?

By Daniela J. Lamas

Democrats should rally around a bill to overhaul the 1873 anti-vice law.

By Michelle Goldberg

We had a chance to treat sex categories in sports with curiosity and compassion instead of condemnation. We still can.

By Michael Waters

The U.S. bombings that ended World War II didn’t mark the close of atomic warfare. They were just the beginning.

By W.J. Hennigan

Glenn Kramon discusses the coincidences that led him to realize how critical immigration was to his recent cancer battle.

By Glenn Kramon

Here’s who needs to worry right now.

By Jennifer B. Nuzzo

Hospital outpatient departments, or HOPDs, are encouraging a surprise scourge on medical costs. It’s patients who bear the burden.

By Danielle Ofri

It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people.

By Vivek H. Murthy

The experience of living with my father’s dementia ranged from tragic to tragicomic to vaudevillian, often within the span of a few minutes.

By Cornelia Channing

A man reflects on his mother’s life with Alzheimer’s and what it has taught him as he faces his own diagnosis with the disease.

By Stephen Gettinger

How harm reduction can work in a red state.

By Maia Szalavitz

Norms on attendance have changed, but it’s about more than Covid-era school closings.

By David Wallace-Wells

The hotter it gets, the more difficult it is for our bodies to cope.

By Jeff Goodell

The virus is changing.

By Rick Bright

Rescheduling the drug is the beginning of the end of marijuana criminalization. Now we need to think about regulation.

By Maia Szalavitz

The First Amendment looms large in lower court cases that may find their way to the Supreme Court.

By Linda Greenhouse

We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one.

By John M. Barry

An interview with America’s top public health official about new challenges and the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

By Jyoti Thottam

Involuntary treatment too often requires a court order.

By Sandeep Jauhar

The seasonal allergy hill is now an all-year mountain.

By Margaret Renkl

We need to rethink the policy of preserving families, seemingly at all costs.

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

The near-impossible challenge of parenting an adult with severe mental illness.

By Jessica Grose

Now is our chance to rethink the centuries-old stories we’ve told about obesity and weight loss.

By Johann Hari

Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.

By Carl Elliott

The evidence reveals a more complicated reality than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.

By David Wallace-Wells

We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.

By Erin M. Sorrell, Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis

The effects of semaglutide drugs won’t be just cosmetic.

By David Wallace-Wells

Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?

By Daniela J. Lamas

To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.

By Kathleen Blackburn

A number of new tech companies want to solve the opioid crisis with algorithms. It’s a flawed and potentially harmful proposition.

By Maia Szalavitz

The return of Trump to the White House would be disastrous for the planet.

By Stephen Markley

A new product for preventing cavities doesn’t have F.D.A. approval or promising clinical trials, but it does have customers.

By David Wallace-Wells

A simple yet radical approach in Asia is equipping medical patients and their loved ones with the knowledge they need to heal themselves.

By Vidya Krishnan and Gayatri Ganju

Without urgent reforms to how we educate travelers, doctors, nurses and others, we are doomed to miss textbook dengue cases.

By Deborah Heaney

The term creates doubt about a biological fact when there shouldn’t be any.

By Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven

A regulated market for donations could help end the shortage of these organs for transplant.

By Dylan Walsh

How does a newly diagnosed patient balance privacy with public honesty?

By Daniela J. Lamas

Our leaders should turn their attention to Americans’ worsening life expectancy.

By Ashwin Vasan

Restrictions on pain medications are hurting patients who are suffering.

By Shravani Durbhakula

Her special is a harbinger of how the weight-loss industry is rebranding: Obesity is a disease, and — for the first time — it’s not your fault.

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

Covid is now a permanent part of our lives. Are we finally ready to accept that?

By Daniela J. Lamas

Ozempic threatens to bust the national budget. That may finally force the government to address the problem of overly expensive medical treatments.

By Brian Deese, Jonathan Gruber and Ryan Cummings

Though moral hazard is a powerful concept for thinking about risk in economics, it’s a flawed approach to designing drug policy.

By Maia Szalavitz

Its decision that embryos are people offers a warning of the future toward which America may be heading.

By Linda Greenhouse

Gene therapies could transform how we treat rare diseases. But will everyone have access?

By Elizabeth Currid-Halkett