Health
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The C.D.C.’s New Challenge? Grappling With Imperfect Science
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was long revered for its methodical and meticulous scientific approach. Agencies in other nations ...
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For Coronavirus Testing, the Nose May Not Always Be Best
Over the past two years, diagnosing a coronavirus infection has often required probing the nose. Health care workers have inserted slender swabs ...
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The C.D.C. concedes that cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively as other masks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday clarified its stance on various kinds of masks, acknowledging that the cloth masks ...
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Martin Shkreli is barred from the drug industry and ordered to repay $64.6 million.
Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical executive best known for unapologetically hiking the price of a lifesaving medication, must pay $64.6 ...
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Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made
Thousands of miles from Dr. Barney Graham’s lab in Bethesda, Md., a frightening new coronavirus had jumped from camels to humans in the Middle ...
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Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Has a Violent Criminal Record
An ailing Maryland man who received a pig’s heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal record stemming from an assault ...
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A popular at-home test detects most infectious Omicron cases, a study suggests.
The Abbott BinaxNOW, a widely used at-home coronavirus test, can detect the vast majority of people who are infected with the new Omicron variant ...
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Criticized by Senators, U.S. Health Officials Defend Omicron Response
WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials on Tuesday defended the Biden administration’s efforts to protect Americans from the highly contagious ...
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Medicare Proposes to Cover Aduhelm Only for Patients in Clinical Trials
Medicare officials have decided that the federal health insurance program should only cover the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm for ...
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California hospitals find that Omicron causes fewer hospitalizations and shorter stays.
A new study of nearly 70,000 Covid patients in California demonstrates that Omicron causes less severe disease than other coronavirus variants ...
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