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A teenage girl died by suicide after she started menstruating and not knowing what it was, in 1935. A bill in Florida wants to take us back to those times.

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

Here’s what it’s really like to experience dissociation in a persistent, life-affecting way.

Trans patients share their stories of subtle discrimination, outright hostility and ill-informed medical professionals.

The Post-KFF survey is the largest, nongovernmental survey of transgender Americans using randomized sampling methods.

Judges have already ruled that the prosecutors broke the law.

How do we ensure no person dies as a result of bringing life into this world?

Scientists are digging into why a few people escape the rarest form of Alzheimer's, which is inherited and strikes young.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys say relatives of crash victims are legally entitled to damages beyond their own grief and loss.

The Los Angeles Times will no longer use "internment" to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The recent tragedy surrounding Lindsay Clancy and her children underscores popular misconceptions about a grave and mysterious disorder.

Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender healthcare bans.

Of all the king’s intellectual interests, however, his love of language was perhaps the most significant—and he may have once sent two infants to live on an island with a deaf-mute woman just to see what would happen.

To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of things from their lessons.

Employers are finding personality tests — measuring how employees think and feel — more useful than ever while navigating hybrid work. But the tests are not always up-to-date.

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

A diabetes miracle drug has become an off-label appetite suppressant, changing the definition of being thin and what it takes to get there.

Joel Bervell first went viral during the COVID-19 pandemic because of a post that had important information for Black people.

Social-emotional learning has been a basic — and uncontroversial — part of education for decades. So why are conservatives waging a war against it?

The GPT-3 large language model performs at the level of a nine year old human in standard Theory of Mind tests, says psychologist.

Alarmed by an online personality’s popularity among their students, educators are mobilizing to combat the sexism he promotes.

The job, in these experiments, was getting a cashew out of a puzzle box.

The letter accused recent news stories of using “an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language” that vilifies being trans.

The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system

Girls, as well as adolescents who identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, reported high rates of sadness, suicidal thoughts and sexual violence.

Callers need more than just a sympathetic ear. They need an informed listener.

The lawyer allegedly brought in a concealed weapon even though he was asked to remove all metallic objects before entering the room with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.

An analysis of two million births in California, the first research of its size to include both race and income, shows the best medical care for mothers and babies is not equally accessible to everyone.