New York Times

This week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman experiments with focaccia, an alternative to pizza that makes a great lunch, snack or sandwich.    

One shot confers lifetime protection and the “booster shot” given at 10 years is no longer necessary, the World Health Organization said.    

If you take coated aspirin and have concerns about its absorption, you are better off crushing the tablets than splitting them. But uncoated aspirin may be the best, most cost-effective option.    

Staying in a nonsmoking room in a hotel that allows smoking elsewhere does not prevent exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study reports.    

One of the hardest parts about developing leukemia at age 22 was how restrictive it was: My treatments left me highly susceptible to infection, airplanes were strictly off limits and even a trip to my neighborhood bodega required a protective face mask.    

More than half of water samples from about 150 public swimming pools in Atlanta contained traces of fecal matter, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.    

A government survey of prison and jail inmates challenged the notion that minors in adult facilities face a higher risk of sexual abuse than other prisoners.    

We joke with our patients that we love boring — it is, in fact, a medical ideal that our patients complain of nothing more than ennui on a daily basis. But the psychological mettle it takes to endure leukemia treatment is remarkable, and there’s little that can prepare a person for it.    

When I got to the marathon starting line earlier this month, I knew that my 18 weeks of training would come down to the next five hours. That training? Some would say unconventional, even controversial.    

Of the crises facing American troops today, suicide ranks among the most emotionally wrenching — and confounding.    

Researchers reported that a combination of two drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb appeared to shrink tumors in 41 percent of patients in a small study.    

Researchers fused skin cells with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically identical to the person who provided the skin cells.    

Andrew C. Revkin, an environmental journalist, shares what he learned after a stroke forced him to interrupt his nonstop career.    

Social isolation can adversely affect health, undermining the ability to self-regulate, raising stress and increasing inflammation, studies show.    

Specialized study of athletic footwear offers some broad guidelines to consider when buying athletic shoes, especially for team sports like football, soccer or basketball.    

Average levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, declined significantly in Americans from 2001 to 2008, but have remained steady ever since, a new study has found.    

Flu infection during pregnancy may increase the risk for bipolar disorder in offspring, according to a new report.