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Last month, I saw an elderly patient with underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was admitted to the hospital with a bone stuck in his throat. He underwent...

For the past several years, I’ve mostly belonged to a common American species: the broken middle-aged runner. One day recently, though, after a pandemic’s worth of physi...

Cases involving two regulations that impose vaccination requirements on workers will go before the Supreme Court on Jan. 7. One rule calls for employers with more than 1...

I recall the days when having a fistfight didn’t mean your life had to end. In the neighborhood where I grew up, an occasional fight wasn’t uncommon. Sometimes it starte...

Recent obituaries of Dr. G. Warren Smith, former president of Slippery Rock University, reflect the extraordinary range of his interests, which included organic chemistr...

Scientists who’ve been reluctant to talk up any new COVID-19 treatment are suddenly using the expression “game changer” to describe the Pfizer antiviral pill Paxlovid. B...

Jeffrey Epstein escaped justice. His co-conspirator did not. Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction Wednesday on five counts of conspiring to recruit girls for her perverted ex-...

Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a better job of thin...

The omicron variant has illustrated that vaccines are a mitigator of COVID-19, not an eliminator. And it's teaching us there's no impenetrable shield that will keep us s...

The forces that have scrambled thousands of flights since Christmas Eve could ease in January, but that's cold comfort to the millions of flyers with New Year's plans. A...