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India’s lax oversight of pharmaceutical manufacturing imperils health around the world

09.01.2023

Cough medicine tainted with ethylene glycol that killed at least 19 children in Uzbekistan in late December 2022 has once again revealed lax oversight and regulation of pharmaceutical companies based …

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Health

CDC: Signs point to an early start for flu season, with cases already ticking up in parts of the U.S.

17.10.2022

Before the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, influenza trackers would begin reading tea leaves around this time of the year, looking for signs of whether there would be an early start to …

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Coronavirus / Health

A doctor’s humbling journey treating long Covid: ‘The second we think we know what we are doing, we fall flat on our face’

10.10.2022

I first met Wes Ely in 2016, when I wrote about ICU delirium and Ely’s attempts, as a critical-care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to urge fellow health care …

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In the Lab

From the Navy to a neuroscience lab: how a daughter’s diagnosis spurred her mother’s career shift

05.08.2022

Carina Block was working an overnight shift in the U.S. Navy base in Japan, guiding jet pilots through thunderstorms, when her husband called. She could sense the fear in Michael’s …

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In the Lab

CRISPR debuted 10 years ago, in a paper hardly anyone noticed. Jennifer Doudna reflects on the DNA scissors’ first decade

28.06.2022

On June 28, 2012, a joint press release went out from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announcing a new paper in Science from an …

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In the Lab

Hundreds of families share a lethal inheritance. This kidney researcher hopes to break the chain

02.05.2022

Autumn Steen roiled in the pew of the chapel, Bowditch Union Free Will Baptist Church — the one she could see from home, the house of God she knew so …

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Health Tech

He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech

26.04.2022

Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner for a super-competitive dermatology residency: He had a double degree from Harvard University, experience as …

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Health

‘We don’t have a say’: Siobhan Wescott wants to elevate the voices of Native Americans in public health

05.04.2022

As the first endowed professor and director of American Indian health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Public Health, Siobhan Wescott wears many hats and, often, a …

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Health

‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators

28.03.2022

BERKELEY, Calif. — If, in the fall of 1987, you found yourself at the University of California, Berkeley, and you made your way through the sloping, verdant campus to Moffitt …

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