Health
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A fourth Covid vaccine is cleared for use in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that a newly authorized vaccine from Novavax be used as…
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What Pregnancy and Childbirth Do to the Bodies of Young Girls
After the account a 10-year-old Ohio girl crossing state lines to get an abortion drew national attention last week, some…
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After New Abortion Laws, Some Patients Have Trouble Obtaining Miscarriage Treatment
Last year, a 35-year-old woman named Amanda, who lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, had a miscarriage in the first…
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Do Cancer Centers Push Too Many Tests?
Say a postcard arrives in the mail, a reminder to make an appointment for a mammogram. Or a primary care…
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The U.S. Has a New Crisis Hotline: 988. Is It Prepared for a Surge in Calls?
Americans in distress have a new number to dial for help — 988, a revamped National Suicide Prevention Lifeline that…
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Demand for Monkeypox Vaccine Exceeds Supply, C.D.C. Says
As the monkeypox outbreak grows in the United States, demand for the vaccine is outstripping the nation’s supply, Dr. Rochelle Walensky,…
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Vaccine protection waned this spring but boosters helped, the C.D.C. reports.
The emergence of highly contagious Omicron subvariants this spring in the United States appeared to reduce the protection offered by…
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Infertility Patients and Doctors Fear Abortion Bans Could Restrict I.V.F.
Anna Nibley Baker, a mother of four in Salt Lake City, is reasonably certain that she and her husband are…
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Updated Covid Shots Are Coming. Will They Be Too Late?
Roseann Renouf, 77, has grown tired of the current generation of coronavirus shots. Having “never been one for a lot…
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Listeria Outbreak Is Linked to Ice Cream, C.D.C. Says
A listeria outbreak blamed for the death of one person and the hospitalization of 22 people across 10 states has…