Caroline Hopkins Legaspi

Almost a year into the nationwide shortage of ADHD medications, federal agencies and drugmakers are blaming each other for empty pharmacy shelves. The Drug Enforcement Administration, which sets limits on the types of amphetamines that pharmaceutical…

It took 12 years for Allison Tuckman to get an accurate diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome, then another 10 to find a treatment to help keep her most severe symptoms in check. Now that she’s finally found a drug that works, the 44-year-old from…

As unsightly as it is, the infection is usually manageable — but only with the right treatment. Here’s how to kick it. Sept. 5, 2023 Q: It looks like I have fungus beneath my toenail, but how can I be sure? Does toenail fungus go away on its own?…

A global helium shortage has doctors worried about one of the natural gas’s most essential, and perhaps unexpected, uses: MRIs. Strange as it sounds, the lighter-than-air element that gives balloons their buoyancy also powers the vital medical…

Our bowels don’t love vacation as much as we do. But there are ways to keep a blockage from slowing down your trip. Q: My bathroom habits are pretty regular at home, but as soon as I leave for a trip, constipation hits. Why am I always backed up on…

Some studies have linked cellphone use with cancer, so we asked some experts to explain the risk. Q: I’m constantly on my phone, and it’s usually near my body when I’m not. Should I worry about radiation exposure? Spending all day glued to your…

NEW YORK — Jennifer Wargo's rationale for focusing her oncology career on the microbiome boils down to the numbers. "We're only 1 percent human, when it comes to our total genomic content," she said. "We're actually 99 percent microbial." Wargo, the…

The overturn of Roe v. Wade has put a spotlight on the availability of affordable, highly effective birth control in the U.S. Many younger women, however, don’t want their mothers’ contraceptives. Even before the Supreme Court decision, more wom

Teen eating disorders have never been this rampant — or this severe. Hospitalizations for eating disorders spiked during the pandemic, doubling among adolescent girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While most teens have…

A growing number of adult women in the United States have been diagnosed with and are seeking treatment for ADHD, a development experts attribute to a long history of psychologists, parents and teachers overlooking symptoms in young girls. The…

As the nationwide Adderall shortage enters its fifth month, people who rely on medication to help manage attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are finding few, if any, available alternatives. There’s no sign of relief yet, and no easy solution to…

Dr. Nancy Klimas has spent the better part of her three-decade research career trying to find a cure for Gulf War illness. Military veterans with the unusual, unexplained illness — which affects some 300,000 U.S. service members who fought in the…

NEW YORK – It's been three years since her advanced lung cancer diagnosis, and still 54-year-old Michelle Hills can't wrap her head around the fact that her health insurance, a Cigna plan, didn't cover the next-generation sequencing biomarker test…

NEW YORK – When 65-year-old Agnes Ross was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2019, she was told next to nothing about her diagnosis, let alone her cancer's molecular characteristics.Ross, a Black woman from Northern Virginia who formerly served in…

Stephen Eisenmann’s youngest grandchildren are 5-year-old twin girls.They’re spunky, perceptive beyond their years and they adore their 64-year-old grandfather, whom they call Bebop.“I’m telling you – I’m gonna be here for when they get…

AFP via Getty Images “Rationing” — a form of decision-making to allocate scarce resources — is something health care providers hope they never have to do. But already the Covid-19 pandemic has forced doctors and nurses around the world — in Italy,…

A long foreseen shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) — including masks, N95 respirators, and gowns — is crippling health workers’ ability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. And as doctors and nurses are forced to…

Silver Leo has been trying to keep her young children, ages 3 and 9, entertained at home since March 13, when their public schools in Alexandria, Virginia, announced closures. Child care is a challenge for a lot of parents these days, but…

Late last year, one of Dr. Vance Fowler’s patients — a man in his 60s who’d returned to North Carolina from visiting his family in Nepal — died of a bacterial infection. He’d been treated at a top U.S. hospital with access to the strongest…