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A lack of access to legal abortion services could directly lead to American deaths, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued Wednesday. “Women who are interested …
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Most people get their medical advice from their doctors. But many may soon get it from state legislators, a frightening prospect that has already become law in two states and …
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WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday vowed that the U.S. won’t become complacent in its Covid-19 response, even as he attempted to project optimism about returning to normal life. Biden …
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Patients gasping for air in hospital hallways, trailers serving as makeshift morgues, emergency medical tents erected in New York’s Central Park: In March 2020, what we watched happening in high-income …
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I biked to work in a rainstorm one day in October 2019. As a longtime bike commuter, I was unfazed by the torrents of water as I skidded through puddles …
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WASHINGTON — Former health secretary Donna Shalala called for a federal investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing approval of a Biogen treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, citing STAT’s revelation …
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Look no further than the coronavirus pandemic to see an immediate and high-profile example of the evolutionary battle between microbes and humans and the antimicrobial resistance it breeds. Even as …
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The pharmaceutical industry says that if the U.S. reduces the astronomical drug prices paid by U.S. consumers, lifesaving innovation will be devastated. That’s not true. There are ways for the …
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