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Shares of the company, one of the largest chains of for-profit psychiatric hospitals, were down 25 percent at one point. Acadia Healthcare, one of the country's largest chains of for-profit [...]

Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff Kelly Hanna's leg was amputated onÃáa summer day in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the 'leg saver' had damaged [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Rebecca Robbins, Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg At a hospital in a Chicago suburb last winter, there were so few nurses that psychiatric patients with Covid were left waiting [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

More than half a million people have signed up for Dr. B, a service that promises to match them with clinics struggling to equitably dole out extra doses before they [...]

The pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. agreed to help manufacture Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, in a deal partly brokered by the White House. WASHINGTON -- President Biden said on [...]

The agency's new guidance will speed the development of vaccines that protect against more contagious variants of the coronavirus. The Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that vaccine developers [...]

On a visit to a vaccine manufacturing plant in Michigan, President Biden said the nation could be ''approaching normalcy'' by the end of the year, but said new virus variants [...]

After ending its own Covid-19 vaccine trials, the company said that it was actively discussing with governments how to help its competitors make their shots. From Ebola to H.I.V. to [...]

Byline: Katie Thomas and Rebecca Robbins New data from several vaccine trials offer positive signs, but many public health experts say emerging variants mean the next few months will be [...]

New data from several vaccine trials offer positive signs, but many public health experts say emerging variants mean the next few months will be a race against the virus. As [...]

Even with two other vaccines authorized, Novavax is having no trouble recruiting volunteers for its U.S. trial. If all goes well, the U.S. could see 110 million doses in June. [...]

An early analysis in Britain found that the vaccine had an efficacy rate of nearly 90 percent. But in a small South Africa trial, the efficacy rate dropped to just [...]

Vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech effectively protect recipients. But in a worrying sign, they are slightly less effective against a variant found in South Africa. As the coronavirus assumes contagious [...]

Byline: Noah Weiland, Katie Thomas and Sharon LaFraniere After the surprise discovery of an extra dose in every vial, Pfizer executives successfully lobbied the F.D.A. to change the vaccine's formal [...]

After the surprise discovery of an extra dose in every vial, Pfizer executives successfully lobbied the F.D.A. to change the vaccine's formal authorization language. The company charges by the dose. [...]

Can President Biden really boost production? Why are governors trying to buy directly from Pfizer? And when will supply exceed demand? Demand for vaccines is skyrocketing as the United States [...]

Facing looming shortages and rising infections, the president-elect promised mobile vaccination sites, National Guard troops and a federal push to increase vaccine production. WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., [...]

While such treatments are promising, their use has been slowed by testing lags, overwhelmed hospitals and a perception the therapies are only for well-connected people. When federal regulators approved two [...]

The company could provide at least tens of millions of additional doses of a coronavirus vaccine under an agreement that would give it better access to the supplies it needs [...]

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center gave Dr. José Baselga a payout after he resigned under fire in 2018 over his ties to health care companies. In 2018, Memorial Sloan Kettering [...]

Byline: Megan Twohey, Keith Collins and Katie Thomas The U.S., Britain, Canada and others are hedging their bets, reserving doses that far outnumber their populations, as many poorer nations struggle [...]

One of the workers, who did not have a history of allergies, remained in the hospital on Wednesday night. Some reactions to the vaccine were also reported last week in [...]

The U.S., Britain, Canada and others are hedging their bets, reserving doses that far outnumber their populations, as many poorer nations struggle to secure enough. As a growing number of [...]

The Trump administration is discussing helping the drug maker get the raw materials it would need to produce tens of millions of extra doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in the [...]

An initial shipment of about 2.9 million doses of the vaccine will be sent around the United States over the next week. The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's Covid-19 [...]

The blessing of these experts means that the agency will likely OK the vaccine's use, paving the way for health care workers to begin getting shots next week. Pfizer's Covid-19 [...]

The pharmaceutical company offered the government a chance to lock in additional supplies before its vaccine was proved effective in clinical trials. WASHINGTON -- Before Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine was proved [...]

Byline: Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas, Noah Weiland, David Gelles, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Denise Grady WASHINGTON - The call was tense, the message discouraging. Moncef Slaoui, the head of the [...]

The treatment, made by the biotech company Regeneron, is a cocktail of two powerful antibodies that have shown promise for people who get it early in the course of the [...]