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Polio has exploded back into Americans’ consciousness after being out of the spotlight in the U.S. for half a century or so: In late summer, it paralyzed an adult in …
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In the last week of August, one of the world’s foremost poxvirus experts retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To outside eyes, the timing of Inger Damon’s …
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Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? President Biden told Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” it was. The Sunday night interview aired just days after the director-general of the World Health Organization, …
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Trade-offs in medicine can be harsh, even when clearly necessary. Chemotherapy can save people from cancer, but the side effects can wreak havoc on their bodies for months or years. …
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The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination program has reached new heights of complexity with the start of the bivalent booster program, leading to concerns about the potential for more errors …
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The first case of polio in the U.S. in a decade has triggered intense debate and unease. On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a disaster after polio virus …
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WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, many experts assumed the biggest obstacle to eliminating hepatitis C was the sky-high cost of the new cures. So when Washington state and Louisiana …
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Pediatricians and top health officials are warning about an uptick in activity of a common virus that in rare cases can cause a polio-like syndrome in young children. The virus, …
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Even before the new Covid booster shots arrived, the arguments about them got shrill. There’s a dizzying kaleidoscope of defensible opinions about the new Covid shots, which are designed to …
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