Prince’s Death: One Year Later, Unsolved Mysteries

By SHEILA M. ELDRED, SERGE F. KOVALESKI and BEN SISARIO April 7, 2017 MINNEAPOLIS — It is one of the great mysteries in recent American pop culture: the death of Prince almost one year ago and the circumstances that led him to...

Cholesterol-Slashing Drug Can Protect High-Risk Heart Patients, Study Finds

By GINA KOLATA March 17, 2017 The first rigorous test of an expensive new drug that radically lowers cholesterol levels found that it significantly reduced the chance that a high-risk patient would have a heart attack or stroke. These were men and women who...

When a Common Sedative Becomes an Execution Drug

By ALAN BLINDER March 13, 2017 TUCSON — When a chemist named Armin Walser helped invent a sedative more powerful than Valium more than 40 years ago, he thought his team’s concoction was meant to make people’s lives easier, not their deaths....