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More Women Who Are Not Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Pills Just in Case

More Women Who Are Not Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Pills...

Rates of requests were highest in states where abortion bans were expected.

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Your Top Health Questions of 2023, Answered

Your Top Health Questions of 2023, Answered

We tackled congestion, constipation, coffee and more. Here’s the advice you need...

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Ohio Governor Blocks Bill Banning Transition Care for Minors

Ohio Governor Blocks Bill Banning Transition Care for Minors

Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of the bill, which also prohibited transgender girls and...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dr. John A. Talbott, Champion of Care for the Mentally Ill, Dies at 88

Dr. John A. Talbott, Champion of Care for the Mentally...

A psychiatrist and a prolific author, he criticized what he referred to as a “nonsystem”...

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Sign Up for Well’s 6-Day Energy Challenge

Sign Up for Well’s 6-Day Energy Challenge

Set yourself up for an invigorating new year.

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Pharmacies Shared Patient Records Without a Warrant, an Inquiry Finds

Pharmacies Shared Patient Records Without a Warrant, an...

A congressional investigation found that the nation’s largest pharmacies have handed...