Treatment
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World
Doctors, Not Judges, Should Decide When to Treat Patients Without Their Consent
Not long ago, I took care of a middle-aged man at my hospital who had severe heart failure requiring life support. When he was disconnected from machines after a few days of treatment, he began to display psychotic symptoms, including delusional ...
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Health
First Patient Begins Newly Approved Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
A 12-year-old boy in the Washington, D.C., area faces months of procedures to remedy his disease. “I want to be cured,” he said.
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Health
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated for Parents on Medicaid
The News For parents struggling with mental health or substance use disorders, access to treatment can often mean the difference between keeping and losing their children. But a new analysis of health and child welfare records found that a ...
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World
The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates in our culture: how the medical community should respond to the growing numbers of young people who seek gender transition through medical treatments ...
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Health
A.L.S. Drug Relyvrio Will Be Taken Off the Market, Its Maker Says
Results of a large clinical trial found the treatment did not work any better than a placebo.
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World
What We Know About Catherine, Princess of Wales’s Cancer Diagnosis
The princess said that the cancer had been discovered after abdominal surgery and that she was receiving “preventative chemotherapy.”
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World
California’s Ballot Measure on Mental Health Care Still Isn’t Decided. Why?
Proposition 1 was expected to be widely approved, but the vote is close. Here’s what the measure is and what’s at stake.
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Health
A.L.S. Drug Relyvrio Fails Clinical Trial and May Be Withdrawn From the Market
Leaders of the treatment’s manufacturer, Amylyx, said they would announce their plans for it within eight weeks.
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World
Three Mothers’ Plea to the F.D.A.: Save Our Children
More from our inbox: Regulating Content on Social MediaSanctions as Political TheaterRepublicans, Christians and I.V.F.A House Full of MemoriesCredit...Kaitlin BritoTo the Editor: Re “Why Can’t More Children Get the Treatment That Saved My Son’s ...
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Magazine
Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia?
The doctors told Naomi that she could not leave the hospital. She was lying in a narrow bed at Denver Health Medical Center. Someone said something about a judge and a court order. Someone used the phrase “gravely disabled.” Naomi did not think she ...