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Opinion: The Supreme Court is partly to blame for the Covid-19 test kit shortage

07.02.2022

Many pharmacies across the nation are sold out of Covid-19 rapid diagnostic tests, making it exceedingly difficult for Americans to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Antigen testing has some serious problems. Done right, it could reshape the future of health care

24.01.2022

The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has renewed attention on Covid-19 antigen test kits. They are in high demand across the United States, and many Americans are having trouble getting them, …

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Coronavirus / Health

Can mailing free Covid-19 tests turn Biden’s pandemic response around?

19.01.2022

WASHINGTON — In an effort to regain the trust of the American public when it comes to his pandemic response, President Biden is launching a massive, slapdash effort to distribute …

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Health

Sequencing whole genomes helps diagnose far more rare diseases, study shows

11.11.2021

When the U.K.’s National Health Service started to use whole genome sequencing, doctors were able to determine diagnoses for more people with rare diseases — including some for whom other …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Make Covid-19 testing an empowering choice rather than a draconian punishment

02.11.2021

Public health is at its best when it is pragmatic in the face of complex problems fraught with stigma and uncertainty, like moving in the direction of full vaccination in …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Had I done Ancestry.com sooner, I could have gotten a kidney transplant two years earlier

01.11.2021

For the past few years, experts have criticized — and defended — the use of race in calculating an important number for people with kidney disease: the estimated glomerular filtration …

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Health

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

20.10.2021

Cindy Bradley-Graziadei almost didn’t take the test. By the time she saw it advertised, in 2017, she was pretty much past the point of mustering any hope. Her pain had …

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Coronavirus / Health

Three lessons for the effort to scale up Covid-19 rapid tests

15.10.2021

In Ann Arbor, Mich., as in many other cities across the country, you’d be hard-pressed to find a rapid Covid-19 test today — they’re not available at the nearby Walmart …

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Coronavirus / Health

Biden moves to ramp up at-home Covid-19 testing

06.10.2021

The White House announced on Wednesday a $1 billion purchase of at-home rapid tests for Covid-19, a move aimed at scaling up test production in the U.S. and quadrupling the …

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