Health
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First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims
A scientist who has pored over public accounts of early Covid-19 cases in China reported on Thursday that an influential…
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Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as the Pandemic Spread
Americans died of drug overdoses in record numbers as the pandemic spread across the country, federal researchers reported on Wednesday,…
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Pfizer Will Allow Its Covid Pill to Be Made and Sold Cheaply in Poor Countries
DURBAN, South Africa — Pfizer announced a deal on Tuesday to allow its promising Covid-19 treatment to be made and…
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‘They See Us as the Enemy’: School Nurses Battle Covid-19, and Angry Parents
When a junior high school student in western Oregon tested positive for the coronavirus last month, Sherry McIntyre, a school…
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For Terminal Patients, the Barrier to Aid in Dying Can Be a State Line
Five years ago, Dr. Nicholas Gideonse spoke with an older man who had received a terminal cancer diagnosis and was…
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Bariatric Surgery May Lower Risk for Severe Liver Disease, New Study Finds
One in four American adults has fatty liver disease caused by obesity, not drinking, and there is no medical treatment…
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The Core Legal Strategy Against Opioid Companies May Be Faltering
In 2014, as overdoses and deaths from prescription opioids were catapulting, gutting the budgets of local governments that were struggling…
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Home virus tests recalled over false positives reach 2 million kits.
The Australian company Ellume has expanded a recall of its at-home coronavirus test because of concerns about a “higher-than-acceptable” rate…
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Ten states sue the U.S. over the vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Ten states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for health care workers,…
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Pfizer Asks F.D.A. to Expand Booster Eligibility to All Adults
WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech asked federal regulators Tuesday to authorize their coronavirus booster shot for those 18 and older,…