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Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81

Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities,...

Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities,...

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Klobuchar Asks Regulators to Investigate MultiPlan Over Health Care Pricing

Klobuchar Asks Regulators to Investigate MultiPlan Over...

A data analytics firm has helped big health insurers cut payments to doctors, raising...

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Pasteurized Dairy Foods Free of Live Bird Flu, Federal Tests Confirm

Pasteurized Dairy Foods Free of Live Bird Flu, Federal...

But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing...

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Larry Young, Who Studied the Chemistry of Love, Dies at 56

Larry Young, Who Studied the Chemistry of Love, Dies at...

Professor Young’s experiments with prairie voles revealed what poets never could:...

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New Mutations Identified in Bird Flu Virus

New Mutations Identified in Bird Flu Virus

A genetic analysis sheds light on when the outbreak began, how the virus spread...

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Covid Vaccine Side Effects: 4 Takeaways From Our Investigation

Covid Vaccine Side Effects: 4 Takeaways From Our Investigation

Thousands of Americans believe they experienced rare but serious side effects. But...

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Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?

Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone...

All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were...

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Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?

Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean...

H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated...

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Some Older Women Need Extra Breast Scans. Why Won’t Medicare Pay?

Some Older Women Need Extra Breast Scans. Why Won’t Medicare...

Mammography can miss tumors in women with dense breasts, so their doctors often...

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Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks on Dairy Farms

Scientists Fault Federal Response to Bird Flu Outbreaks...

Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic...

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Let Them Eat … Everything

Let Them Eat … Everything

In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is inspiring and infuriating...

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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated for Parents on Medicaid

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated...

Among those with substance use disorders who have been referred to child welfare,...

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Inside Novo Nordisk, the Company Behind Ozempic and Wegovy

Inside Novo Nordisk, the Company Behind Ozempic and Wegovy

Novo Nordisk’s factories work nonstop turning out Ozempic and Wegovy, its blockbuster...

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‘Aging in Place, or Stuck in Place?’

‘Aging in Place, or Stuck in Place?’

Homeownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was.

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Martin Wygod, a Winner on Wall Street and the Racetrack, Dies at 84

Martin Wygod, a Winner on Wall Street and the Racetrack,...

After he made a fortune selling prescription drugs and providing medical information...

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Lori and George Schappell, Long-Surviving Conjoined Twins, Die at 62

Lori and George Schappell, Long-Surviving Conjoined Twins,...

They were distinct people who pursued different lives. “Get past this already, everybody,”...