Health
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Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents
Millions of pregnant women get the pitch through their OB-GYN: Put a bit of your newborn’s umbilical cord on ice,…
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What Parents Should Know About Cord Blood Banking
Millions of parents have paid to bank blood from their infants’ umbilical cords. But storage companies have misled them about…
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Is Cutting Off Your Family Good Therapy?
As she struggled through her sophomore year in college, Zhenzhen spent hours in therapy, but it hadn’t addressed the central…
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Do You Have Concerns About Embryo Storage? We Want to Hear From You.
We’re reporting on the challenges that fertility clinics face as they store a growing number of frozen embryos.
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Why Does a Routine Test of Newborns Reward ‘Pink’ Skin?
The Apgar test grades infants in five areas, including skin tone. Babies of color score lower, and may be subjected…
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Why Nursing Home Residents Still Suffer Despite Tough State Laws
For hours, John A. Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in…
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How to Find a Good, Well-Staffed Nursing Home
Here are the telltale signs to look for in nursing homes to avoid, and resources that can point to better…
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States and Creditors for Purdue Pharma Threaten Sacklers With Gush of Lawsuits
Legal maneuverings followed a Supreme Court ruling last month that denied the Sackler family immunity from liability over its role…
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Second Patient to Receive a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart…
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F.T.C. Says Middlemen Appear to Be Driving Up Drug Prices
In a report, the regulator sharply criticized pharmacy benefit managers, a reversal from its longstanding hands-off approach to policing the…