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Sepsis, a deadly overreaction of the immune system to infection, has befuddled clinicians and researchers for decades. Covid-19 made things worse. The early signs and symptoms of sepsis mimic those …
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Ramesh Balwani, the chief operating officer of Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and patients about the company’s technology. Elizabeth Holmes, his …
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Congress is considering two measures that modernize tools the Food and Drug Administration uses to oversee two areas of its vast portfolio: diagnostic tests and cosmetics. While the stakes are …
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Cancer is becoming less deadly in America. According to the recently released Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, overall cancer death rates have continued to decline …
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When the two Republican senators from Mississippi cosponsor legislation with the two Democratic senators from California, something intriguing must be going on. In fact, there appears to be an outbreak …
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President Biden’s recent case of Covid-19, its rebound, and his extended isolation offers an opportunity to consider how more precise interpretation of viral load via PCR testing might be used …
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When Alzheimer’s disease was believed to be caused solely by the accumulation of amyloid protein in the brain, pinning all hopes on an amyloid-targeting drug like Aduhelm — the first …
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Infectious disease specialists are growing increasingly concerned by the U.S. strategy for testing for monkeypox, warning that it’s creating a bottleneck and squandering the limited time the country may have …
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With the United States on the lookout for more monkeypox cases, federal health officials this week said they’re considering expanding testing networks, even as they’ve stressed the current two-step process …
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