To Your Health: Blood tests significantly underestimated lead levels, FDA and CDC warn

America’s love-hate relationship with the fidget spinner: Is technology to blame for our restlessness?

In past centuries, people worked with their hands all day on building tools and farming. Could fidgets be a way for people now to channel that energy while focusing their minds on cognitive tasks?

By Ariana Eunjung Cha • Read more »

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The Health 202

Your daily guide to Washington’s health-care debate.

Nearly 700 vacancies at CDC because of Trump administration’s hiring freeze

Health and Human Services is one of several federal agencies to maintain the freeze on their own.

By Lena H. Sun • Read more »

‘An embarrassment’: U.S. health care far from the top in global study

The United States scores well in diseases preventable by vaccines, but it gets almost failing grades for nine other conditions that can lead to death.

By Ariana Eunjung Cha • Read more »

Women with advanced breast cancer are surviving longer, study says

Increasing survival rates of women with metastatic disease reflect improved treatments, researchers found.

By Laurie McGinley • Read more »

Blood tests significantly underestimated lead levels, FDA and CDC warn

The lead tests in question drew blood from veins, rather than the more common heel- and finger-prick technique. The problem may go back to 2014.

By Laurie McGinley • Read more »

‘Internet abortions’ may be safe option where procedure is restricted, study suggests

The study involved about 1,000 women in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

By Ariana Eunjung Cha • Read more »

A teen chugged a latte, a Mountain Dew and an energy drink. The caffeine binge led to his death.

Davis Cripe’s sudden collapse in class was a mystery. Then friends told investigators what he had for lunch.

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. • Read more »

Trump expansion of abortion ‘gag rule’ will restrict $8.8 billion in U.S. aid

Critics worry that the new policy, which the Trump administration calls Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance, will have the opposite effect by resulting in the closure of critical health facilities.

By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Carol Morello • Read more »