Trump Picks Nicole Saphier for Surgeon General After Withdrawing Casey Means Nomination

Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General

Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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‘Animal Farm’ Review: George Orwell, Lost in the Mud

A confusing adaptation of Orwell’s political novel seems blissfully detached from its source’s clarity.

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‘Departures’ Review: Finding Levity Amid the Pain

This tragicomedy from Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely balances a mordantly funny deconstruction of romance with the harsher realities of gay life.

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‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Is Sentenced to Life in Prison

Nathan Chasing Horse had been convicted of charges including the sexual assault of women and girls and the possession of child sexual abuse imagery.

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Could At-Home Brain Stimulation Reduce Psychiatry’s Reliance on S.S.R.I.s?

A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm.

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The Obamas, Kim Kardashian and Other A-Listers Are Now Broadway Co-Producers

The latest trend on Broadway is celebrity co-producing: A-listers who now have credits as backers of plays and musicals.

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U.S. Government Will Stop Paying for Test Strips to Detect Deadly Drugs

In a letter to states and other grant recipients, the Trump administration says the strips encourage drug use.

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Supreme Court Appears Divided Over Roundup Weedkiller Case

The case could help determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against the maker of a popular herbicide over claims that it causes cancer.

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Luis Puenzo, Director of Oscar-Winning Argentine Film, Dies at 80

“The Official Story,” set during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, won the country its first Academy Award for best foreign language film, in 1986.

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Pregnancy With Lupus Is Risky. Would She Be Able to Carry Her Baby to Term?

Fatimah Shepherd’s kidneys were compromised, and pregnancy could send her into kidney failure.

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The Cult Music Documentary ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Turns Middle-Age

The film capturing the scene outside a Judas Priest show was 17 minutes long, only available on VHS and won the hearts of a generation of rock fans.

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‘The Lost Boys’ Review: Live, Die, Reprise

A Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 movie gets a lot of mileage from ’80s rocker aesthetics and over-the-top spectacle — until its second half.

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Eugene Braunwald, Whose Research Reshaped Cardiology, Dies at 96

His work changed how doctors understood heart attacks, heart failure and coronary artery disease, and helped lead to therapies that saved millions of lives.

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Jet Li Believes in Showing Up on Time, or Earlier

“If you tell me eight o’clock,” the film and martial arts star said, “I will be there 10 or 15 minutes before and wait.”

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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance

A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.

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The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever

From the Kremlin to Silicon Valley, some of the most powerful people in the world now want something more: eternal life.

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‘Apex’ Review: Taron Egerton on the Hunt for Charlize Theron

Taron Egerton descends into full-tilt madness as a killer hunting Charlize Theron in this Netflix thriller set in southeastern Australia.

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Stream These Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in May

Dozens of titles leave the streaming service for U.S. subscribers every month. Here’s a roundup of the best ones leaving soon.

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New Gene Therapy Enables Children With a Rare Form of Deafness to Hear

The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, and now he can hear,” said one parent.

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Combative, Defensive and Occasionally Contrite, Kennedy Walks a Fine Line

In four days of congressional testimony, the health secretary sought to please the White House and his MAHA base at the same time.

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Joy Harmon, Car-Washing Temptress in ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 87

All it took was a bucket of soapy water and a slinky housedress for her to achieve movie immortality in the 1967 Paul Newman classic.

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RFK Jr. Says His Department Advises All Children to Get Measles Vaccine

Testifying on Capitol Hill, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to back away from his criticism of the measles shot. But he spoke on behalf of his department, not himself.

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Nathalie Baye, Versatile and Admired French Actress, Dies at 77

In films like “Day for Night,” “La Balance” and “The Return of Martin Guerre,” she was adept at portraying sensual, reflective or excitable characters.

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Aging in Place: How Technology Might Help You Grow Old at Home

The budding field is turning dreams into reality for older adults who are eager to age in place, filling caregiving gaps and easing minds as America ages rapidly.

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Two Drugs Stir Hope for Treatment of Deadly Pancreatic Cancer

In separate small clinical trials, two treatments showed promise that they could help patients with one of the most dire diagnoses in oncology.

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‘Michael’ Review: A Jackson Biopic Leaves Too Much Unsaid

A biographical film produced by the estate of Michael Jackson flattens its subject to scrub his reputation.

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RFK Jr. Refused to Commit to Backing New CDC Director on Vaccines

In a tense congressional hearing, the health secretary also said he bore no responsibility for the measles outbreak in the United States.

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What Is Borderline Personality Disorder?

Volatile relationships, reckless impulsivity and an unstable identity are hallmarks of this misunderstood mental health condition.

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How ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Press Tour Looks Came Together

The press tour for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” has been a fashion show for its stars and their stylists, who have relied on group chats, sweatpants and camaraderie to pull it off.

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Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans

The space agency is counting on Jeff Bezos’ company to deliver equipment essential to the next moon landing, only two years away.

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Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in a Spooky, Tangled Thriller

Our film critic Alissa Wilkinson reviews “Mother Mary.”

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To Play a Man With Tourette’s, He Swapped the Script for Real Life

Robert Aramayo immersed himself in John Davidson’s life to prepare for the movie “I Swear.” It earned Aramayo a BAFTA, but Davidson’s tics became the talking point.

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‘Reefer Madness,’ the P.S.A. That Backfired Spectacularly

The comically self-serious and outrageous 1936 morality tale, which warned the public about marijuana, became an unintentional parody and midnight-movie classic decades later.

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‘Half Man,’ and 5 More Things to Watch on TV This Week

This new series, starring, written and directed by Richard Gadd of “Baby Reindeer,” comes to HBO, and Hulu observes 420 with a cavalcade of cannabis series.

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Review: Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara Seduce in ‘Fallen Angels’

Lust is the comic engine driving the action of a riotous revival of one of Noël Coward’s early plays, with Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara, at Todd Haimes Theater.

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‘All the President’s Men’ at 50: Times Journalists Look Back

New York Times staff members shared why they regard the 1976 film as one of the best movies about their profession.

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Trump Expected to Loosen Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

An upcoming executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds’ efficacy in treating PTSD, depression and other mental health problems, officials said.

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Lawsuit Against Alec Baldwin for ‘Rust’ Shooting Heads Toward Trial

Although the criminal case against Mr. Baldwin was thrown out, the actor still faces civil cases about the fatal shooting of a cinematographer in 2021.

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New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V.

The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.

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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

A chemist, she lent her expertise in drug research to ACT UP, an organization known for its street protests, and helped accelerate the approval of H.I.V. and AIDS treatments.

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New Treatment Lets 3 Transplant Patients Halt Anti-Rejection Drugs

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh gave transplant recipients certain immune cells from their organ donors. It didn’t always work.

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‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted

The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.

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Nearly Everyone on ‘The Pitt’ Has Trauma

On top of the daily toll of treating patients, the show’s medical providers bring their own scars to the E.R.

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Trump to Nominate Doctor Who Has Publicly Supported Vaccines as C.D.C. Director

Dr. Erica Schwartz is seen as a highly qualified traditional choice and tapping her is the strongest signal yet that the administration is veering away from vaccine skepticism this election year.

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‘Balls Up’ Review: Offend It Like Beckham

Two condom salesmen, Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser, embark on a bawdy, digressive picaresque in Peter Farrelly’s defiantly lowbrow film.

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Review: ‘The Fear of 13,’ With Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, Doesn’t Add Up

Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make confident Broadway debuts, but the uneven script makes for a narratively slippery prison drama.

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Analysis of Alzheimer’s Drugs Stirs Debate About Their Effectiveness

The review said a certain class of drugs had little clinical benefit, but many Alzheimer’s experts criticized the analysis, saying it unfairly lumped failed drugs with two recently approved treatments.

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Barbara Gordon, Who Wrote Memoir of Pill Addiction, Dies at 90

“I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.

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In Kannywood, a Film Scene Thrives Despite a Censorship Board

A city in Northern Nigeria has turned into a moviemaking machine, churning out hundreds of productions a year.

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Billy Crystal to Return to Broadway With Solo Show ’860’ About Losing His Home in L.A. Fires

The actor-comedian said he will return to Broadway this fall with a new solo show called “860,” named for the address of his destroyed family home.

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Surgeon Who Removed Wrong Organ From Patient Is Charged in His Death

Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida’s Health Department.

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She Made a Medieval Film on a Shoestring Budget

Caroline Golum used a crowdfunding site and a credit card to raise funds for her movie about a 14th-century mystic. Then she started filming in Queens.

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Global Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease from Animals to People

Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests.

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Why Does the “Rocky” Statue Draw Crowds? This Show Investigates.

This spring, the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites the bronze boxer inside to center an exhibition on why we make monuments and what they mean.

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A Cartier Design Worn by Grace Kelly Evolves Into a Timepiece

The Grain de Café, or coffee bean, motif from the 1930s has resurfaced in a watch.

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‘Titaníque’ on Broadway: Wild ‘Titanic’ Parody, With Celine Dion as Kooky Guide

This “Titanic” parody fueled by Dion’s hits, silly ad-libs and pop culture references had the humblest of beginnings. Now the show has docked on Broadway.

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Edna Foa, Who Pioneered Exposure Therapy to Treat PTSD, Dies at 88

A psychologist, she urged patients to confront the things that frightened them, revolutionizing her field’s approach to post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Exercise Used to Bore Bob Odenkirk. Now He’s Doing Stunts.

The “Better Call Saul” actor stars in “Normal,” his third action film. He finds it freeing: “You let all that rage go in a pretend fight.”

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New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling

The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.

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Trump to Host MAHA Leaders in Bid to Shore Up a Fragile Alliance

President Trump will meet privately at the White House on Thursday with disenchanted leaders of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement.

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‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Love in the Italian Countryside

Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page star in this fumbling romantic comedy, complete with vineyard romping, barrel racing and a sexy serenade.

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Top C.D.C. Official Delays Report on Covid Shot’s Effectiveness

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya objected to the study’s methodology, saying it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccine’s benefits.

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Rosamund Pike to Star in ‘Inter Alia’ on Broadway

The actress, a star of “Gone Girl” and “Saltburn,” will play a judge whose personal experience as the mother of a son tests her courtroom approach to justice.

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‘Bunnylovr’ Review: Run, Rabbit

A young woman struggles with the pitfalls of an extremely online life in this confident and meandering debut feature.

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Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

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‘Faces of Death’ Set the Bar for Hardcore Horror. It’s Baaack.

A remake of the cult horror movie raises questions about the approach to viewing disturbing videos in a new era.

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Fanciful and Fabulous: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway

For their 10th life, the cats strut and duckwalk in a reappraisal of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 musical, which has shifted to the queer ballroom scene.

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How Psychedelics Affect the Brain

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.

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At Broadway’s ‘Rocky Horror Show,’ Fan Participation Is Tricky

The new musical is trying to calibrate just how much to rein in the audience participation that longtime fans are used to.

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Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.

Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.

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Trump’s Foreign Aid Overhaul Sent Millions More Dollars to Big U.S.-Based Contractors

While organizations in the developing world were nearly shut out, the big aid agencies DOGE had called wasteful received huge infusions of cash, a new analysis found.

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Federal Agency Unveils Three Potential Osteoarthritis Treatments

With funding from ARPA-H, three teams of researchers have regrown bone and cartilage, even entire knees, in animal studies. Human trials are not far off.

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NASA Families Don’t Go to the Moon, but They’re on the Mission, Too

For the families of the Artemis II astronauts, the mission “begins at assignment.”

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Despite Poor Reviews, ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Is a Megahit

The animated sequel collected about $373 million worldwide over its first five days in theaters. “Kids love the movie,” a box office analyst said.

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For Many Patients Leaving the I.C.U., the Struggle Has Only Just Begun

A long stay in intensive care can bring physical, cognitive and mental health challenges that can take months or longer to resolve.

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‘Under Protest,’ Raw Dairy Farm Recalls Cheddar Linked to 9 E. Coli Cases

Raw Farm, a dairy producer in California, denies that its products have caused the outbreak, which has sickened people in three states.

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‘The Drama’ and the Secrets That Can Unravel a Relationship

In the new film, a shocking revelation upends the lives of a couple played by Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, raising the question: Are some betrayals simply unforgivable?

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H.H.S. Takes a First Step Toward Restoring Vaccine Advisory Committee

A federal judge last month questioned the legitimacy of the panel and overturned its recent work. A notice suggests that it may be revived on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s terms.

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‘Jimmy & the Demons’ Review

The impish but thoughtful James Grashow, his sculpture and his long marriage are the subjects of Cindy Meehl’s film.

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Blake Lively’s Retaliation Case Against Justin Baldoni Heads to Trial Without Harassment Claims

A federal judge tossed the actress’s sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni in a split decision that sets the stage for a contentious trial.

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E.P.A. Targets Microplastics and Drugs in Drinking Water

The move drew praise from leaders of the Make America Healthy Again movement who had recently criticized the agency’s handling of toxic chemicals.

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‘DJ Ahmet’ Review: Finding Hidden Music in the Forest

After a young shepherd in North Macedonia finds a dance party in the woods, his life changes.

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How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a little bit lonely.

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The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to AMC+, Hulu, Apple TV and More in April

A new Jonathan Glatzer tech satire and an adaptation of Isabel Allende’s novel “The House of the Spirits” are among this month’s highlights.

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