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For an archived version of live coverage of the hearing of the FDA’s advisory panel, click here. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended against …
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Health agencies, providers, and other groups tasked with the herculean effort to vaccinate the public against Covid-19 are readying for the next phase of the endeavor: boosters. But they’re also …
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Do most Americans already need Covid-19 booster shots, or at least will they soon? Those questions have been hotly debated in the public square over the past few weeks. But …
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Black children consistently have more medical complications during appendectomies than their white peers, including higher rates of “perforated” or burst appendixes. That not only leads to extended hospital stays for …
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Storing donor lungs at a slightly warmer temperature — 10 degrees Celsius instead of 4 degrees — can make the organs viable for six times as long as traditional preservation …
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Food and Drug Administration scientists have expressed skepticism about the need for additional doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for all people who have received it. The assessment by the agency’s …
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After barely surviving a bomb attack in Iraq in 2005, veteran Jerry Majetich lived with intense pain in his right hand for 15 years. Finally, he decided last year to …
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“Can you give me a thumbs up?” the surgeon asks Jerry Majetich, an Iraq War veteran, during a checkup this spring at a Boston hospital. “Can you make me a …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has, of course, been devastating over the past year. But by other measures of public health, the year wasn’t quite as calamitous as Bill Gates and Melinda …
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