Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday took aim at the question of whether the Delta ...
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BETHESDA, Md. — Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world, part of an effort by the Chinese ...
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A new analysis underscores concerns about how federal aid was allocated to health care institutions under the Provider Relief Fund, ...
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A growing crop of professionals are guiding people with attention deficit disorder toward healthier behaviors, and self-acceptance ...
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The 87-year-old conservationist, best known for her work with chimpanzees, has written a hopeful survival guide for Homo sapiens ...
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In a sweeping victory for the Biden administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed booster shots ...
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The National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday that a nonprofit group under fire from some congressional Republicans for its ...
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Booster shots in adults who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were highly effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 breakthrough infections, Pfizer announced ...
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An independent committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on Thursday unanimously recommended extra ...
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On Thursday, negotiations continued over how to finance the measure, with White House officials and congressional Democrats discussing proposals to ...
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With the Food and Drug Administration likely to authorize a Covid vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, the Biden ...
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As the latest wave of the virus ebbs in most parts of the United States, advisers to the Centers for ...
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots on Wednesday for tens of millions of recipients of Moderna’s ...
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The federal investigation in the case is still in progress, and officials urged anyone who might have been a victim ...
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BRASÍLIA, Brazil — On Tuesday night, a Brazilian congressional panel was hours away from revealing on national television its recommendation ...
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The drug maker Biogen reported on Wednesday that Aduhelm, its new Alzheimer’s drug, brought in $300,000 in revenue from July ...
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The first easy-to-use Covid-19 treatment could be available in the United States by the end of this year, but it ...
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Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee ...
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The authors of the new paper intentionally chose to invite only active practitioners of ancient DNA research, according to Kendra ...
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A Blame-Shifting ExerciseThe transactions that created Chemours and reinvented DuPont laid the groundwork for a blame-shifting exercise that has made ...
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Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist with terminal ovarian cancer who used her final months to raise money for graduate students of ...
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These results highlight the “complexity of physical activity behavior,” Dr. Ingraham said, and how the willingness to spontaneously move — ...
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Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and ...
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When Jim Lewis was told earlier this month that his 90-year-old mother, who lives in a nursing home outside of ...
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WASHINGTON — The campaign to vaccinate young children in the United States against the coronavirus will not look like it ...
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The New York City Board of Health declared racism a public health crisis on Monday, passing a resolution that directed ...
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The New York City Board of Health declared racism a public health crisis on Monday, passing a resolution that directed ...
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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday outlined a plan to make hearing aids available without a medical exam, prescription ...
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The committee was scheduled to release the report on Wednesday and then vote on it a week later. The group ...
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The Food and Drug Administration seems likely to allow Americans to switch vaccines when choosing a Covid-19 booster shot. That ...
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The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 93 percent effective against hospitalization with Covid-19 among 12- to 18-year-olds, the Centers for Disease Control ...
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The same risks identified in studies about ambulance responses apply generally to police and fire responses as well, though the ...
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Workouts, like work itself, can be done at home, and clubs are learning how to lure customers back ...
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Upending centuries of medical dogma, a team of South African researchers has found that breathing may be a bigger contributor ...
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“The No. 1 thing I heard from state health secretaries was the need for permissive language around a mix-and-match approach,” ...
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The list, which the E.P.A. described as a “road map” includes setting legal limits for safe levels of PFAS in ...
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The death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday from complications of Covid-19 has provided fuel for vaccine ...
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Colin L. Powell, the first Black secretary of state, had multiple myeloma: a form of blood cancer that hobbles the ...
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LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. Now a new study suggests that, like ...
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Las nuevas recomendaciones sobre la aspirina, la salud del corazón y el cáncer de colon han dejado a muchas personas ...
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Anna Emilie Rink was born on Jan. 10, 1919, in Vienna. Her father, Ernst, owned a factory. Her mother, Marta ...
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Former President Bill Clinton was released from a California hospital on Sunday after being admitted on Tuesday for treatment of ...
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At Lumina, where staff turnover has run 80 percent higher than usual, “we’ve had job postings for months without any ...
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WASHINGTON — A key federal advisory committee voted unanimously Friday to recommend Johnson & Johnson booster shots, most likely clearing ...
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The share of American nursing home residents who are recorded as having schizophrenia has soared over the past decade. As ...
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A growing number of Asian Americans have overcome a cultural stigma attached to seeking mental health treatment, experts said ...
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Some experts questioned whether Moderna had gathered enough data on potential side effects. Regulators and scientists have been especially concerned ...
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After a brutal summer surge, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, the coronavirus is again in retreat.The United States ...
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WASHINGTON — The White House is considering nominating Dr. Robert M. Califf, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, to ...
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Deaths from tuberculosis, the world’s biggest infectious disease killer until the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, have increased for the first time ...
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The advisory committee is also likely to consider whether Moderna’s protection against severe disease and hospitalization may eventually weaken. Booster ...
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The Food and Drug Administration for the first time on Tuesday authorized an electronic cigarette to be sold in the ...
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The task force includes 16 experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine who periodically evaluate screening tests and preventive treatments ...
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The new committee, known as the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, will differ in several respects ...
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The German company CureVac announced on Tuesday that it was withdrawing its mRNA vaccine for Covid-19 from the approval process ...
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Dr. Patrice Harris, the former president of the American Medical Association and the chief executive of eMed, which sells at-home ...
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As the virus spread, more mutations sprang up, giving rise to even more transmissible variants. First came Alpha, which was ...
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When Jonathan Isaac, a prominent basketball player for the Orlando Magic, explained why he chose not to be vaccinated against ...
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All Tanisha Johnson wanted was for the pain to go away.Doctors had offered little hope for her intractable migraines. But ...
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Dan Mehan, president of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a pro-business group in a state where vaccination rates ...
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Merck said on Monday that it had submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration to authorize what would ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Three days a week, Adriana Kratzmann, an administrator, opens the door at 8:30 a.m. to Courtroom ...
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When Lizzie Rothwell, an architect in Philadelphia, sent her son to third grade this fall, she stocked his blue L.L ...
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Vaccine makers are betting that the mRNA technology powering two successful Covid vaccines will help curb the tragic global death ...
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She established herself as one of the first known female endurance runners in Britain in 1926, a time when women ...
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Nestled on her Chesterfield sofa, her electric wheelchair close at hand, Rosemary Dyer surveyed the glittering peacock figurines she had ...
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When the bad news finally arrived, neither one of us — dear friends for 60 years — knew what to ...
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“The vaccine saves lives but it will not be a silver bullet,” said Dr. Githinji Gitahi, the chief executive officer ...
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She also demonstrated that while bereavement and grief can trigger major depression, periods of grief, even lasting a year, were ...
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Over a 15-month period of the pandemic, more than 120,000 children in the United States had a parent or caregiver ...
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WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech asked federal regulators on Thursday to authorize emergency use of their coronavirus vaccine for children ...
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