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Alzheimer’s Drug May Benefit Some Patients, New Data Shows
The drug, lecanemab, made by Eisai and Biogen, also carried risks of brain swelling and bleeding and should be studied further, a report of the findings said.
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Can This Man Stop Lying?
Christopher Massimine is trying not to lie. He’s trying not to lie when his wife asks him whether he has sorted the recycling, or when his mother-in-law’s friend Mary Ann asks whether he liked the baked appetizers she brought over. He’s trying not to ...
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One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine?
Scientist have tested in animals a vaccine that may protect against 20 strains of influenza, helping to prevent another pandemic.
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Organ Donations Rise Around Motorcycle Rallies
This summer, when half a million bikers clogged the streets of tiny Sturgis, S.D., for one of the country’s largest motorcycle rallies, there ...
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Happy Birthday, Omicron
On Nov. 26, 2021, the World Health Organization announced that a concerning new variant of the coronavirus, known as Omicron, had been discovered ...
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Flu and R.S.V. Hit the Holidays, Heightening Demand for Antibiotics and Antivirals
Amoxicillin, an antibiotic commonly prescribed for children with ear infections, bronchitis and strep throat, is in short supply across the ...
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U.S. Officials Offer Hopeful Tone on Covid as Winter Nears
Federal health officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that the nation was better prepared to weather a surge of Covid-19 infections this winter ...
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The Monkeypox Cases That Might Have Been Missed
In the monkeypox outbreak that unspooled this summer in the United States and dozens of other countries, men who have sex with men were the most ...
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Brave Little Worriers
CRANSTON, R.I. — Audrey Pirri, 16, had been terrified of vomiting since she was a toddler. She worried every time she shared a meal with family ...
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What if You Could Go to the Hospital … at Home?
Late last month, Raymond Johnson, 83, began feeling short of breath. “It was difficult just getting around,” he recently recalled by phone from ...
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