Medical
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World
Will a $1 Billion Medical School Donation Help Make the Bronx Healthier?
Health experts praised a monumental gift to the Bronx’s sole medical school, but wondered if it would be enough to…
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World
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School
Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is making free tuition available to all…
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US
Pressure Builds on Pentagon to Explain Timeline of Austin’s Hospitalization
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has yet to disclose why he has been at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for…
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News
What Happened to Kate Cox Is Tragic, and Completely Expected
Many people were shocked when the Texas Supreme Court intervened recently to stop Kate Cox from getting an abortion in…
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News
A Texas Case Shows That Abortion Ban Exemptions Are a Sham
This essay has been updated to reflect news developments. Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year,…
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World
How International Law Views Military Action at a Hospital
The Israeli military has seized the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Israel says it needed to capture the hospital, in…
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Health
Doctors Wrestle With A.I. in Patient Care, Citing Lax Oversight
The F.D.A. has approved many new programs that use artificial intelligence, but doctors are skeptical that the tools really improve…
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Health
How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral
The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the…
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Health
In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared
Over the last two decades, medical facilities and staff have become casualties of war more frequently, in violation of international…
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Health
Mary Lou Retton Crowdfunded Her Medical Debt, Like Many Thousands of Others
But unlike the Olympic gymnast, most people don’t raise enough money to cover their costs.