Nytimes Health

More adolescents than ever are watching it. What’s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and “porn literacy.”

Odds are your adolescent has already encountered online pornography. Your role is to openly address it, scholars say.

A new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in our feline companions.

The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.

Starting at 30, women can collect their own vaginal samples for HPV testing at a doctor’s office.

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?

In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency.

Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found.