Who Is Suing Over New York’s Vaccine Mandate?

In courtrooms from Manhattan to Utica, judges are weighing whether exemptions that would cover thousands of health care workers will be allowed.

These Health Care Workers Would Rather Get Fired Than Get Vaccinated

Monday is the vaccination deadline for New York State health care workers. Thousands of refusers have failed to meet it.

New York Hospitals Face Possible Mass Firings as Workers Spurn Vaccines

With a Monday deadline looming, thousands of health care workers in the state are risking their jobs by not getting a coronavirus vaccine.

Opinion | The Use of Antipsychotic Drugs in Nursing Homes

A professor, a psychiatrist and a nurse react to a Times investigation. Also: A modern Civil War; a more confident child.

Abortion Is No Longer a Crime in Mexico. But Will Doctors Object?

Another battle looms over whether public hospitals will be required to offer the procedure.

After Video of Abusive Nurse, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Health Overhaul

The abuse last year of an Indigenous woman in a Quebec hospital has prompted outrage and underlined the discrimination facing Canada’s Indigenous community.

Opinion | How Nurses Are Feeling: Tired, Angry and Hopeless

“The burnout and PTSD used to feel like a temporary chapter. I see no end in sight now,” one nurse writes. Also: Welcoming Afghan refugees; cosmetic surgery.

When School Nurses Are Not Enough

There is no better time than now to bump up the health resources for children in schools, experts say.

‘Nursing Is in Crisis’: Staff Shortages Put Patients at Risk

“When hospitals are understaffed, people die,” one expert warned as the U.S. health systems reach a breaking point in the face of the Delta variant.

Frontline Health Care Workers Aren’t Feeling the ‘Summer of Joy’

Doctors and nurses are reeling from new Covid cases, staff burnout and the prolonged stress of dealing with the pandemic.

Opinion | Doctors and Nurses Are the Key to the Final Vaccine Push

Health providers are the most trusted source for Covid-19 vaccine information. 

The Maldives Lured Tourists Back. Now It Needs Nurses.

The island nation kept Covid cases low, and its resorts open, for much of the pandemic. But a recent surge exposed its overreliance on expatriate health workers.

How Can I Hold On To Hope and Humor While Witnessing So Much Suffering?

“You need art that matches your intensity,” writes our advice columnist.

Health Care Workers Deserve Fashion, Too

After masks, medical scrubs get the designer treatment. It’s the next big market no one expected.

To Keep Their Son Alive, They Sleep in Shifts. And Hope a Nurse Shows Up.

A nursing shortage — driven by the pandemic — has made life miserable for parents with profoundly disabled children. “What if I’m so exhausted that I make a mistake?”

They Kept Schools Running as Covid Raged: ‘We Had to Be Here’

Last year, one million students and their teachers emptied out of New York City’s school buildings as the pandemic took hold of the city. These are the staff members who stayed.