Health
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Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made
Thousands of miles from Dr. Barney Graham’s lab in Bethesda, Md., a frightening new coronavirus had jumped from camels to…
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Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Has a Violent Criminal Record
An ailing Maryland man who received a pig’s heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal record…
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Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Has a Criminal Record
An ailing Maryland man who received a pig’s heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal history…
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Common Virus May Play Role in Debilitating Neurological Illness
For decades, researchers have suspected that people infected with an exceedingly common virus, Epstein-Barr, might be more likely to develop…
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Doctors Debate Whether Trans Teens Need Therapy Before Hormones
An upsurge in teenagers requesting hormones or surgeries to better align their bodies with their gender identities has ignited a…
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Senate Panel OKs Califf Nomination for F.D.A. Chief
A key Senate committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to become commissioner of the Food and…
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Biden announces 500 million more tests will be purchased for Americans.
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday stepped up his administration’s response to a coronavirus surge driven by the Omicron variant,…
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A popular at-home test detects most infectious Omicron cases, a study suggests.
The Abbott BinaxNOW, a widely used at-home coronavirus test, can detect the vast majority of people who are infected with…
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Criticized by Senators, U.S. Health Officials Defend Omicron Response
WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials on Tuesday defended the Biden administration’s efforts to protect Americans from the highly contagious…
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Medicare Proposes to Cover Aduhelm Only for Patients in Clinical Trials
Medicare officials have decided that the federal health insurance program should only cover the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm for…