Approaches to Mental Illness

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Bergner that questioned mandatory psychiatric treatment.

The Business of Being Chris Christie

Mr. Christie left the governor’s office in New Jersey and set out to, as he put it, “make money.” He successfully traded on his political profile — and on his ties to the man he now wants to defeat.

Cancer Drug Advancements Give New Hope to Metastatic Patients

New treatments are changing once deadly forms of the disease into manageable long-term illnesses. But not all patients are benefiting.

New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming

Wegovy and other drugs expose a social tension between a quest to medicate illness and a stigmatizing belief that obese people lack sufficient willpower to lose weight.

FDA Panel Recommends RSV Shot to Protect Infants

Advisers to the agency overwhelmingly agreed that a new treatment would help to prevent a potentially lethal respiratory illness in very young children.

When Politics Saves Lives: a Good-News Story

The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.

Merck Sues Over Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Law

The company is heavily reliant on a cancer drug that could be targeted by a program intended to lower drug prices.

How to Fix the National Drug Shortage

The way health care providers negotiate drug prices has put the squeeze on manufacturers.