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Acadia Healthcare is one of America's largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Since the pandemic exacerbated a national mental health crisis, the company's revenue has soared. Its stock price has more [...]

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists' growing interest in our animal companions. Amy Conroy sat alone in a veterinary exam room, hands clutching a water [...]

People have grown more attached to their pets -- and more willing to spend money on them -- turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions. This article is [...]

We want to hear from pet owners about their experiences taking their animals to the vet, and how they paid for their animals’ care. Dogs and cats are members of [...]

The clinics' owner, Dr. Jihad Mustapha, who called himself the ''leg saver'' but whose procedures sometimes preceded amputations, was a focus of a Times investigation last year. A doctor who [...]

The clinics’ owner, Dr. Jihad Mustapha, who called himself the “leg saver” but whose procedures sometimes preceded amputations, was a focus of a Times investigation last year. A doctor who [...]

Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music A Times investigation has found that dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new [...]

Mothers have complained that Melanie Henstrom, a lactation consultant in Boise, Idaho, pressured them to get their babies' tongues lasered by a dentist. The national body that certifies lactation consultants [...]

Mothers have complained that Melanie Henstrom, a lactation consultant in Boise, Idaho, pressured them to get their babies’ tongues lasered by a dentist. The national body that certifies lactation consultants [...]

Linda Hennis was checking her Medicare statement in January when she noticed something strange: It said a company she had never heard of had been paid about $12,000 for sending [...]

Linda Hennis was checking her Medicare statement in January when she noticed something strange: It said a company she had never heard of had been paid about $12,000 for sending [...]

Cada vez más se recomienda liberar los tejidos que unen la lengua, labios y mejillas de los niños para facilitar la lactancia. Sin embargo, los doctores advierten sobre la seriedad [...]

Tess Merrell had breastfed three babies and never expected trouble with her fourth. But after a month of struggling with her newborn, she hired Melanie Henstrom for help. Ms. Henstrom, [...]

Tongue, lip and cheek-tie releases are often recommended to help with breastfeeding or to prevent health problems. Few studies have shown benefits. It’s an increasingly common scenario faced by new [...]

Tess Merrell had breastfed three babies and never expected trouble with her fourth. But after a month of struggling with her newborn, she hired Melanie Henstrom for help. Ms. Henstrom, [...]

More surgeons are opting for a complicated hernia repair that they learned from videos on social media showing shoddy techniques. The bulge on the side of Peggy Hudson's belly was [...]

Kelly Hanna's leg was amputated on a summer day in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the ''leg saver'' had damaged her arteries by snaking metal wires through [...]

The federal agency that oversees nursing homes has tightened rules around the use of powerful antipsychotic drugs. Federal regulators said Wednesday that they will begin penalizing nursing homes that give [...]

At a hospital in a Chicago suburb last winter, there were so few nurses that psychiatric patients with Covid were left waiting a full day for beds, and a single [...]

At a hospital in a Chicago suburb last winter, there were so few nurses that psychiatric patients with Covid were left waiting a full day for beds, and a single [...]

Providence began reaching out to more than 700 patients after The Times contacted the hospital system about its billing and debt-collection practices. One of the country's largest nonprofit hospital chains, [...]

RICHMOND, Va. -- In late July, Norman Otey was rushed by ambulance to Richmond Community Hospital. The 63-year-old was doubled over in pain and babbling incoherently. Blood tests suggested septic [...]

In 2018, senior executives at one of the country's largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars providing free health care to patients. [...]

In 2018, senior executives at one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars providing free health care to patients. [...]

In Arizona, a nursing home resident was sexually assaulted in the dining room. In Minnesota, a woman caught Covid-19 after workers moved a coughing resident into her room. And in [...]

In Arizona, a nursing home resident was sexually assaulted in the dining room. In Minnesota, a woman caught Covid-19 after workers moved a coughing resident into her room. And in [...]

At least 21 percent of nursing home residents are on antipsychotic drugs, a Times investigation found. The handwritten doctor's order was just eight words long, but it solved a problem [...]

''I don't see a lot going well for them at this point,'' said one analyst. Novavax, one of the first players in the race to vaccinate the world against Covid, [...]

Scott Cohen was on a ventilator struggling for his life with Covid-19 last April when his brothers pleaded with Plainview Hospital on Long Island to infuse him with the blood [...]

He was a top executive at Memorial Sloan Kettering before resigning over payments from health care companies. He went on to lead cancer research at AstraZeneca. Dr. José Baselga, a [...]