Health
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Breaking Nicotine’s Powerful Draw
At some point in the next few years, the 30 million smokers in the United States could wake up one…
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To Stop or Not to Stop the Fight
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Late one Saturday evening in June, two men in their 20s stood across from each other, shirtless…
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England Overhauls Medical Care for Transgender Youth
The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic…
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In Rural America, Covid Hits Black and Hispanic People Hardest
The coronavirus pandemic walloped rural America last year, precipitating a surge of deaths among white residents as the virus inflamed…
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Study Finds Another Condition That Vitamin D Pills Do Not Help
The idea made so much sense it was almost unquestioningly accepted: Vitamin D pills can protect bones from fractures. After…
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Teva Reaches Tentative $4.25 Billion Settlement Over Opioids
Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the country’s biggest manufacturers of generic opioids, announced a settlement in principle with some 2,500 local…
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Few Parents Intend to Have Very Young Children Vaccinated Against Covid
Barely a month after the Food and Drug Administration authorized Covid-19 vaccines for very young children, the prognosis that large…
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W.H.O. Declares Monkeypox Spread a Global Health Emergency
For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization has taken the extraordinary step of declaring a global…
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After Roe, Pregnant Women With Cancer Diagnoses May Face Wrenching Choices
In April of last year, Rachel Brown’s oncologist called with bad news — at age 36, she had an aggressive…
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Soaring Overdose Rates in the Pandemic Reflected Widening Racial Disparities
The pandemic’s devastating impact on drug overdose deaths in the United States hit people of color the hardest, with rates…