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A New Way to Prevent S.T.I.s: A Pill After Sex
The News In a bid to stem the resurgence of sexually transmitted infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to recommend doxycycline, a widely used antibiotic, for use after an unprotected sexual encounter. The antibiotic would ...
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For Black Mothers, Birthing Centers, Once a Refuge, Become a Battleground
Gabrielle Glaze felt scolded and shamed when she delivered her first son in a Birmingham, Ala., hospital, forced to observe strict rules about lying stationary through her contractions and enduring countless cervical checks from “total strangers” who ...
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F.D.A. Moves to Regulate Lab Tests That It Says Put Patients ‘at Risk’
Genetic testing that reveals potential cancer risks or other maladies with no regulatory oversight is among the targets of the agency’s proposed review.
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Fixing America’s Health Care System
More from our inbox: Trump’s Trial Dates and the Odds of ConvictionDoes Barbie Really Need Ken?Credit...September Dawn Bottoms for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Re “How Do We Fix the Scandal That Is American Health Care?,” by Nicholas Kristof ...
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3 Die in N.Y. Area From Infection Spread Through Seawater and Oysters
The bacteria is found in raw seafood, like oysters, and warm, brackish waters. Climate change may increase the risk of infections from the deadly bacteria farther north.
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‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us?
The Faroe Islands, an incongruous speckling of green in the North Atlantic, are about as far away as you can hope to get on Earth from a toxic-waste dump, time zones distant from the nearest population centers (Norway to the east, Iceland to the west ...
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‘Huberman Husbands,’ ‘Bro Diets’ and the ‘Masculine’ Branding of Fitness Culture
It started with a suspicious green sludge at the bottom of our drinking glasses. I kept finding evidence of this murky, grassy sediment when I was unloading the dishwasher, and I asked my husband if he knew where it came from. He said something like ...
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Amid Signs of a Covid Uptick, Researchers Brace for the ‘New Normal’
Infections remain very low, despite signs of a slight increase. Now, experts are looking for clues to what living with the coronavirus will be like this winter and beyond.
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Biden Picks Retired General to Lead New White House Pandemic Office
The News President Biden has picked Dr. Paul Friedrichs, a military combat surgeon and retired Air Force major general who helped lead the Covid-19 response at the Pentagon, to head a new White House office created by Congress to prepare for and ...
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Business
Retiree Medical Costs Are Expected to Moderate, but Still High
An estimate puts the average cost over a 20-year retirement at about $157,000. That’s almost double the estimate in 2002.
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