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The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying

25.01.2023

Emily was combing her baby daughter’s hair when she first felt the lumps. It was a week before Christmas, and her youngest daughter, Isadora, had been feverish and listless, unwilling …

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Biotech / Health

We finally have new drugs for sickle cell disease. Why are so few patients taking them?

19.12.2022

Related: Companies and researchers are finally pouring resources into a search for better sickle-cell treatments.   At first, Lena Harvey didn’t realize anything had changed. She just started doing strange, unexpected …

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In the Lab

‘The tipping point is coming’: Unprecedented exodus of young life scientists is shaking up academia

10.11.2022

SAN DIEGO — Rayyan Gorashi is keeping her options open. After all, she’s still a second-year bioengineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, and there are so many careers to …

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Coronavirus

Here’s why we’re not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation

03.11.2022

The first time I remember hearing the words “biology’s century,” it was a sales pitch. I was standing by the Long Island Sound in Sachem’s Head, Conn., in the shadow …

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Health

‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution

27.10.2022

Flooding, heat waves, wildfires, and other climate-driven weather extremes in recent years have catapulted hospitals into emergency mode and devastated the communities they serve, with Hurricane Ian’s deadly rampage through …

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Health

A minuscule new HHS office has a mammoth goal: tackling environmental justice

11.10.2022

WASHINGTON — Ask 10 people how a federal health care agency might tackle “environmental justice,” and you’ll get 10 answers. For Jackson, Miss., residents, it is ensuring potable water after …

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Health

‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides

25.08.2022

BOSTON — When a routine cancer screening came back showing an elevated PSA reading, George Brickhouse knew he should take it seriously. His father had been treated for prostate cancer …

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Health

The trust-builder: a cancer center director’s try-it-all strategy for breaking the barriers between research and Black patients

03.08.2022

TRIALS AND TRUST: This is the second part of a series on health equity and diversity in clinical trials and cancer research. RICHMOND, Va. — The residents agreed: Nobody like …

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Health

Two deadly days in St. Louis: An overdose cluster kills 8 Black people — and shows the new shape of the addiction crisis

25.07.2022

ST. LOUIS — The calls for help poured in throughout the day: Overdose after overdose at the Parkview Apartments here, a double-winged complex with red brick capping the ends. Six …

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