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U.S. Makes Initial Offers in Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

U.S. Makes Initial Offers in Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

The offers amount to a starting gun in the price talks between the federal government...

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Alternative Therapies Like Meditation and Acupuncture Are on the Rise

Alternative Therapies Like Meditation and Acupuncture Are...

More than one-third of American adults now supplement or substitute mainstream medical...

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6 Reasons That It’s Hard to Get Your Wegovy and Other Weight-Loss Prescriptions

6 Reasons That It’s Hard to Get Your Wegovy and Other Weight-Loss...

An array of obstacles makes it difficult for patients to obtain Wegovy or Zepbound....

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Why Do Women Have More Autoimmune Diseases? Study Points to X Chromosome

Why Do Women Have More Autoimmune Diseases? Study Points...

The molecules that silence a woman’s second X chromosome can confuse the immune...

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Runner With Long Covid Creates Flagstaff’s Dream Run Camp

Runner With Long Covid Creates Flagstaff’s Dream Run Camp

With long Covid ending his own days as an endurance athlete, Matt Fitzgerald opened...

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Naomi Feil, Who Promoted Empathy as a Response to Dementia, Dies at 91

Naomi Feil, Who Promoted Empathy as a Response to Dementia,...

She trained caregivers to “validate” the delusions of older people with dementia,...

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Even Rats Are Taking Selfies Now (and Enjoying It)

Even Rats Are Taking Selfies Now (and Enjoying It)

A photographer trained two rats to take photographs of themselves. They didn’t want...

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Berish Strauch, Path Breaker in Reconstructive Surgery, Dies at 90

Berish Strauch, Path Breaker in Reconstructive Surgery,...

He developed a wide variety of procedures and devices to reattach or replace vital...

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How Worcester Polytechnic Institute Weathered a Spate of Suicides

How Worcester Polytechnic Institute Weathered a Spate of...

Over six terrible months, professors and administrators at Worcester Polytechnic...

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Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the First Time

Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear for the...

The genetic treatment targeted a particular kind of congenital deafness and will...

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With Harsh Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Law, Uganda Risks a Health Crisis

With Harsh Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Law, Uganda Risks a Health Crisis

The country had made great progress against H.I.V. Now terrified patients have fled...

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FDA Issues Warning of Cancer Risk Tied to CAR-T Therapies

FDA Issues Warning of Cancer Risk Tied to CAR-T Therapies

The agency has reviewed reports of cancer patients whose treatments resulted in...

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The Heart Surgery That Isn’t as Safe for Older Women

The Heart Surgery That Isn’t as Safe for Older Women

Coronary artery bypass grafting, the most common cardiac procedure in the United...

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seeks to Retract Flawed Studies

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seeks to Retract Flawed Studies

A British biologist and blogger discovered faulty data in many studies conducted...

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Europe Faces a Measles Outbreak

Europe Faces a Measles Outbreak

When vaccinations begin to lag, as they did during the pandemic, measles is often...

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Researchers Scramble to Keep Dog Aging Project Alive

Researchers Scramble to Keep Dog Aging Project Alive

The National Institute on Aging may let funding lapse for a yearslong study of nearly...