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The president's executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds' efficacy in treating mental health disorders like severe depression and PTSD.
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 6:18 pm
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With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community health care workers prevent older adults from falling through the cracks.
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 9:02 am
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The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration's shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 10:09 pm
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A chemist, she lent her expertise in drug research to ACT UP, an organization known for its street protests, and helped accelerate the approval of H.I.V. and AIDS treatments.
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 7:56 pm
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh gave transplant recipients certain immune cells from their organ donors. It didn't always work.
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 3:37 pm
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Dr. Erica Schwartz is seen as a highly qualified traditional choice and tapping her is the strongest signal yet that the administration is veering away from vaccine skepticism this election year.
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 6:38 am
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On top of the daily toll of treating patients, the show's medical providers bring their own scars to the E.R.
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 1:00 am
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Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida's Health Department.
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 12:38 am
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought to roll back longstanding vaccine policy, testified that the measles vaccine is safe and effective "for most people" and agreed it was safer than getting measles.
Posted on 16 April 2026 | 11:33 pm
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The review said a certain class of drugs had little clinical benefit, but many Alzheimer's experts criticized the analysis, saying it unfairly lumped failed drugs with two recently approved treatments.
Posted on 16 April 2026 | 12:05 am
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Some researchers hold that evolution hasn't much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.
Posted on 15 April 2026 | 3:24 pm
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Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that's OK.
Posted on 15 April 2026 | 2:00 pm
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If you are on the fence, or have already made a decision, we want to hear about it.
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 3:14 pm
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Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests.
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 9:02 am
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A psychologist, she urged patients to confront the things that frightened them, revolutionizing her field's approach to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Posted on 12 April 2026 | 5:16 pm
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A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.
Posted on 10 April 2026 | 6:46 pm
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Whether you're looking to manage a health condition, lose weight or simply eat better, we want to hear from you.
Posted on 10 April 2026 | 4:41 pm
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White House officials solicited messaging ideas from leaders of the Make America Healthy Again movement, which has soured on some recent administration actions.
Posted on 9 April 2026 | 11:30 pm
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The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.
Posted on 9 April 2026 | 9:29 pm
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya objected to the study's methodology, saying it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccine's benefits.
Posted on 9 April 2026 | 8:36 pm