From the outside, autism can be difficult to understand. The unique sensory world of an autistic person can mean that a joyful event—like a Christmas party—can become nightmare of noise, lights, ...

A preexisting condition usually refers to a health issue you had before the date new health coverage starts. People may also use it to refer to health conditions you had before a new one began. Since ...

This year’s updated Covid-19 vaccines have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for adults 65 and older and younger people with certain medical conditions that put them at a higher ...

Most people have no legal obligation to tell an employer about a chronic health condition. However, disclosing it can allow a person to get reasonable accommodations to help them manage their ...

Burnout is generally said to date to 1973; at least, that’s around when it got its name. By the nineteen-eighties, everyone was burned out. In 1990, when the Princeton scholar Robert Fagles published ...

For most of human history, the mind was a mystery box. Behavior emerged, and we simply accepted it—strange, brilliant, troubled, gifted. But today, we peer inside that box. We map genes. We track ...

Editor’s Note (7/17/25): This story has been updated with additional reporting and expert commentary. President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a disease of the ...

Explore the outreach toolkit, view upcoming screening events, and browse support materials for two NOVA films – Critical Condition: Health in Black America and When Machines Prescribe. In Critical ...

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease than White Americans, and their life expectancy is about five years shorter. Why? In this special ...