Health
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The End of Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’
Operation Warp Speed, the Trump-era program that poured billions of dollars into developing Covid shots, seemed to signal a new…
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Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave? Scientists Aren’t So Sure.
As winter looms and Americans increasingly gather indoors without masks or social distancing, a medley of new coronavirus variants is…
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Price of New A.L.S. Treatment Will Be $158,000 Per Year, Maker Says
A new medication for A.L.S., the devastating neurological disorder that causes paralysis and death, will have a list price of…
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Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In March, Katelin Cruz left her latest psychiatric hospitalization with a familiar mix of feelings. She was,…
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A Devious Cellular Trick Cancers Can Use to Escape Your Immune System
In a surprise discovery, researchers found that cells from some types of cancers escaped destruction by the immune system by…
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Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds
Ten years of data from a nationwide survey of physicians confirm another trend that’s worsened through the pandemic: Burnout rates…
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Lasker Award Honors Development of Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Test
It was a startling discovery: Tiny pieces of an unborn baby’s DNA were found floating through its mother’s bloodstream —…
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More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’
Michael, 17, arrived in the sleek white waiting room of his plastic surgeon’s office in Miami for a moment he…
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Monkeypox Appears to Recede, but Risks and Uncertainties Linger
Nearly four months after the first report of monkeypox in the United States, the virus is showing promising signs of…
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‘Sobering’ Study Shows Challenges of Egg Freezing
Claire Evans decided to freeze her eggs six years ago, when she was 36. She had just broken up with…