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Across Alaska, Dr. Zink said, fentanyl kills many overdose victims before bystanders or emergency responders can revive them with naloxone, ...
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During a recent Zoom conference call, four Adult Protective Services workers from California, using a tool called the Interview for ...
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Taking pills to end a pregnancy accounts for a growing share of abortions in the United States, both legal and ...
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The manufacturer of Ashley Hernandez’s preferred baby formula for her two girls said it was out of stock on its ...
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The police said two Ohio State University students died in apparent drug overdoses this week as health officials warned that ...
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Morton Mower, an entrepreneurial cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that has saved many lives by returning potentially fatal ...
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The deaths of five children and what may be an unusual group of more than 100 hepatitis cases in young ...
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For a respiratory disease, Covid-19 causes some peculiar symptoms. It can diminish the senses of smell and taste, leave patients ...
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Traces of a virus known to infect pigs were found in a 57-year-old Maryland man who survived for two months ...
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Mary Ziegler, the author of several books on the history of abortion (and a critic of the draft decision), said ...
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Biogen said on Tuesday that it would replace its chief executive and effectively give up on marketing a high-profile Alzheimer’s ...
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An experimental drug has enabled people with obesity or who are overweight to lose about 22.5 percent of their body ...
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Graduate students, faculty and alumni from New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine staged a walkout Wednesday to protest a ...
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Every year, tens of thousands of people enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans are denied necessary care that should be ...
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Sixty percent of Americans, including 75 percent of children, had been infected with the coronavirus by February, federal health officials ...
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The top executive at McKinsey & Company, appearing on Wednesday for the first time before Congress to answer for the ...
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