Health

With a dying veteran “three feet from the door,” the hospital called 911 instead of its own rapid response team.

Phoenix keeps setting new daily temperature records. The Valley may set new heat-related death records, too.

A national organization is tracking more than 90 active conversion therapists in Arizona, the majority of whom lack licenses.

More than 18,000 Arizonans live with HIV, and experts encourage everyone between 13 and 64 years old to get tested.

The WNBA star has dealt with the skin condition since high school, but only now is choosing to speak about it publicly.

The National Weather Service issued its first excessive heat warning for Phoenix, nearly a month earlier than it did in 2023.

The walk and 5K run filled Tempe Beach Park with crowds raising awareness and money for HIV.

“This is your win”: Sky Harbor workers applaud the move but fear retaliation if they take breaks or feel sick.

Banner’s Advanced Heart Failure Program used an artificial heart to sustain Steve Ekdahl for months ahead of his organ transplant.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers support psilocybin use in therapeutic settings to treat PTSD, depression and other conditions.

The contagious respiratory illnesses are “widespread” and driving up hospital visits in Maricopa County and across the state.

The organization gives haircuts in a Mesa laundromat and 13 senior centers across Maricopa County.

Cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have spiked in Maricopa County. Health officials say less condom use and more testing could be the cause.

As monkeypox cases begin to appear in Phoenix, LGBTQ advocates and health care providers look to support vaccine efforts without adding stigma.

The law, ARS 13-3603, makes abortion at any stage of pregnancy illegal, with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

Paula Pedene blew the whistle on how the Phoenix VA was killing veterans by making them wait for care. She’s hosting a book signing at the American Legion post in Scottsdale on Tuesday.

New Times spoke with several young women at the march, who shared what it’s like to come of age in a state that is rapidly losing reproductive rights.

“If you ever choose to have an abortion, I know exactly where I’m going to take you,” Arizona state senator Stephanie Stahl Hamilton recently promised her daughter. Where’s that? Mexico.

Rocky Point is more than a beachy tourist trap. A team of surgeons from Phoenix is working for free there to save the lives of Mexico’s most impoverished – cartel members included.

The first and only FDA-cleared robotic dentist in the United States is hard at work in metro Phoenix.

Monkeypox cases remain rare – but the first case in Arizona has been identified here in Maricopa County, officials said Tuesday.

Severe understaffing has led to basic failures in medical care in the Maricopa County jails, according to internal documents obtained by Phoenix New Times.