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10 Ways to Support Your Mental Health and Manage Stress in 2024

10 Ways to Support Your Mental Health and Manage Stress...

These simple and proven strategies will help you manage stress and find meaning...

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10 Nutrition Tips for a Healthy New Year

10 Nutrition Tips for a Healthy New Year

We’ve learned plenty about eating well. Here’s the advice we’ll carry with us into...

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Monica Bertagnolli, NIH’s New Leader, Wants to Broaden Participation in Medical Research

Monica Bertagnolli, NIH’s New Leader, Wants to Broaden...

In a wide-ranging interview, Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, the director of the National...

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Bellevue Hospital Bariatric Surgery Program Is Under NY State Scrutiny

Bellevue Hospital Bariatric Surgery Program Is Under NY...

The Health Dept. is looking into the public hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians...

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New Hope — and an Old Hurdle — for a Terrible Disease With Terrible Treatments

New Hope — and an Old Hurdle — for a Terrible Disease With...

Researchers in developing countries are trying to find treatments for conditions...

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Dean Phillips, an Upstart Challenger to Biden, Embraces ‘Medicare for All’

Dean Phillips, an Upstart Challenger to Biden, Embraces...

A longtime moderate, the Democratic congressman now says he had been “convinced...

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Gunfire Echoing Through School Grounds? Parents Are Terrified. Kids Stopped Noticing.

Gunfire Echoing Through School Grounds? Parents Are Terrified....

In a Rhode Island city, AR-15-style weapons at a police firing range comprise the...

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Mystery Amid an Anthrax Outbreak in Africa

Mystery Amid an Anthrax Outbreak in Africa

Only a fraction of the presumed cases in five countries have led to positive tests...

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How Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Surgery Became a Big Business

How Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Surgery Became a Big Business

Dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases”...

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Behind the Shortage Keeping Cancer Patients From Chemo

Behind the Shortage Keeping Cancer Patients From Chemo

Key drugs have been in scarce supply, revealing a deep crisis in the generic drug...

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Americans Are Signing Up for Obamacare in Record Numbers

Americans Are Signing Up for Obamacare in Record Numbers

On December 15 alone, nearly 750,000 people signed up for a plan on HealthCare.gov,...

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This Gorilla’s Caregivers Face Familiar Questions About Aging

This Gorilla’s Caregivers Face Familiar Questions About...

Winston, an older silverback, is getting enviable medical treatment. Now his keepers...

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Bristol Myers to Acquire the Drugmaker Karuna for $14 Billion

Bristol Myers to Acquire the Drugmaker Karuna for $14 Billion

The deal is a bet on the growing market for psychiatric and neurological drugs.

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Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Severe Morning Sickness

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Severe Morning Sickness

The discovery could lead to better treatments for severe nausea and vomiting during...

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William P. Murphy Jr., Innovator of Life-Saving Medical Tools, Dies at 100

William P. Murphy Jr., Innovator of Life-Saving Medical...

Dr. Murphy’s safe, reliable blood bag replaced breakable glass bottles used in transfusions...

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Drugs like Wegovy Can Fix Teenage Obesity, but Young People Don’t Get Them

Drugs like Wegovy Can Fix Teenage Obesity, but Young People...

Pediatricians are hesitating to prescribe medicines like Wegovy, citing their newness...