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Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ As increasing numbers of parents keep their children from playing tackle football for safety reasons, the National Football League and other groups have sought to reassure them [...]

As increasing numbers of parents keep their children from playing tackle football for safety reasons, the National Football League and other groups have sought to reassure them that the game [...]

They are among war's invisible wounds: the emotional and cognitive problems that many troops experience years after combat explosions sent huge shock waves through their brains. Whereas the link between [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ, WALT BOGDANICH and JACQUELINE WILLIAMS The National Football League was on the clock. With several of its marquee players retiring early after a cascade of frightening concussions, [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ, WALT BOGDANICH and JACQUELINE WILLIAMS The National Football League was on the clock. With several of its marquee players retiring early after a cascade of frightening concussions, [...]

Byline: KEN BELSON and ALAN SCHWARZ Perhaps no one will remember the setting, a hearing room for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, or the person who asked the question, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPerhaps no one will remember the setting, a hearing room for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, or the person who asked the question, a member of the House [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Three shaky months into recovery from heroin addiction, Dariya Pankova found something to ease her withdrawal. A local nonalcoholic bar sold a brewed [...]

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Three shaky months into recovery from heroin addiction, Dariya Pankova found something to ease her withdrawal. A local nonalcoholic bar sold a brewed beverage that soothed [...]

Five years ago, Adrianna Vorderbruggen was forced to keep her relationship with another woman secret. Only after the repeal of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy in 2011 could [...]

A new federal report suggests that misuse of prescription painkillers among teenagers is decreasing, news that heartened officials who remained concerned at the steady numbers regarding marijuana and e-cigarette use. [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ Andrew Rios's seizures began when he was 5 months old and only got worse. At 18 months, when an epilepsy medication resulted in violent behavior, he was [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOKLAHOMA CITY -- Jannie Ligons stood at a news conference microphone on Friday and described her horror and defenselessness as an Oklahoma City police officer sexually assaulted her in [...]

Andrew Rios's seizures began when he was 5 months old and only got worse. At 18 months, when an epilepsy medication resulted in violent behavior, he was prescribed the antipsychotic [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen the Drug Enforcement Administration announced last year that pharmacies nationwide could accept and destroy customers' unwanted prescription drugs, experts in substance abuse called it a significant step toward [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Rudolph Norris walked out of Morgantown federal prison two weeks ago carrying a duffel bag like no other. First, he had spent six months hand-stitching it himself [...]

Anthony DiTullio would pop a painkiller in his mouth but not just swallow it, as intended. He would chew it for 30 minutes, grinding through its protective coating and waxy [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ MILWAUKEE -- Scores of travelers streamed through Los Angeles International Airport in March, just off a flight from China. But one passenger, a 33-year-old Chinese chemist, never [...]

MILWAUKEE -- Scores of travelers streamed through Los Angeles International Airport in March, just off a flight from China. But one passenger, a 33-year-old Chinese chemist, never reached baggage claim. [...]

Seven doctors and 41 others in four Southern states were arrested Wednesday in raids by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, officials said, part of what the agency called its largest operation [...]

BALTIMORE -- Six recovering substance abusers sat in an inner-city treatment center, sharing their stories. When Michael's turn came around, he spoke of his former drug of choice, alcohol, and [...]

A sharp rise in visits to emergency rooms and calls to poison control centers nationwide has some health officials fearing that more potent and dangerous variations of a popular drug [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ Fading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a [...]

Fading fast at 11 p.m., Elizabeth texted her dealer and waited just 30 minutes for him to reach her third-floor New York apartment. She handed him a wad of twenties [...]

A federal judge declined on Wednesday to order the removal of marijuana from the Drug Enforcement Administration's list of the most harmful and addictive drugs, disappointing those who had hoped [...]

An outbreak of H.I.V. in southeastern Indiana prompted the governor on Thursday to declare a public health emergency as officials worked to stop the spread of the virus that causes [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults. Support for so-called [...]

Byline: ALAN SCHWARZ As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults. Support for so-called [...]

As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults. Support for so-called campus carry laws [...]

High numbers of students are beginning college having felt depressed and overwhelmed during the previous year, according to an annual survey released on Thursday, reinforcing some experts' concern about the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Walking past some fraternity parties on the George Washington University campus Saturday night, Sivan Sherriffe wondered about a longstanding tradition at her school and colleges nationwide. ''I've always [...]

The article reports on the imposition of a short-term needle exchange program by Republican Governor Mike Pence to respond to the outbreak of HIV infections in Indiana.

The article states that the U.S. agency the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) was treating the December 2, 2015, shootings in San Bernardino, California, as an act of terrorism. According to the article, one of the alleged shooters, radical Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) on the social media outlet Facebook on the day of the shootings. According to the article, the motivation of Malik and her husband, alleged shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, was as yet unknown.

The article discusses coverage of the home of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, suspects in San Bernardino shootings in California, by journalists on television and the Internet; and concerns of people such as lawyer David S. Chelsey over journalists' invading of the family's private space.