Lenny Bernstein

Suicides among young Americans declined sharply, while rates for older groups — especially men — rose, according to new government data. Guns were involved in more than half of all suicides.

About half of all people are in hospice at the end of their lives, but more than 25 percent of hospice patients enroll in the final week.

Weak rules and industry power have allowed ultra-processed products on the menu. Lunchables altered two of its products to meet federal school lunch standards.

A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a man declared neurologically dead. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator.

The Senate gave final passage to a bill that gives U.S. health officials authority to revamp the system that supplies organs to desperately ill people.

The matter concerns a company’s use of an automated tool to retrieve data from transplant network computer systems.

The United Network for Organ Sharing is threatening to revoke an organ-screening firm’s access to a computer network that sends organs throughout the country.

Anthony S. Fauci, who retired from the National Institutes of Health in December, will teach public policy and medicine at Georgetown.

The scheme was concentrated in Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas, authorities say.

Los Angeles barber says in a lawsuit that African Americans rank lower on organ wait lists because of a flawed algorithm.