Mindless optimism is the only antidote to rational despair.

Scientists have identified proteins that could signal increased lung cancer risk, as well as a drug that could reduce the odds of a tumor developing.

Too many women walk out of their doctors’ office with no diagnosis, no treatment and no plan.

With the East Wing turned to rubble, our Graphics staff set out to show what exactly the president planned to build there and elsewhere.

Ms. Bass, a Democrat, has had a roller-coaster first term. She now faces the first runoff since 2005 for an incumbent mayor in the city.

Bird helped usher in bebop and transformed the alto saxophone into an instrument of startling possibility. Here’s an 11-song primer on his enduring legacy.