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For Epidemics to Cross Oceans, Viruses on Ships Had to Beat the Odds
In the era when people traveled by sailing ship and steamer, illnesses usually burned themselves out before boats reached shore, a new study finds.
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A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure
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Rabies Is Spreading in South African Seals, Scientists Say
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A new study paints a complex picture of the outbreak, suggesting that the virus could be spreading in multiple ways and that it is not always mild in cows.
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How Science Went to the Dogs (and Cats)
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Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?
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Your Brain Holds Secrets. Scientists Want to Find Them.
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When ‘Prior Authorization’ Becomes a Medical Roadblock
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When Families Fight Over a Relative With Dementia, It’s Time to Call in the Mediator
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Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care
The United States has no coherent system for providing long-term care, leading many who are aging to struggle to stay independent or to rely on a patchwork of solutions.
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Facing a severe shortage of aides and high costs, people trying to keep aging loved ones at home often cobble together a patchwork of family and friends to help.
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Extra Fees Drive Assisted-Living Profits
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Why Long-Term Care Insurance Falls Short for So Many
The private insurance market has proved wildly inadequate in providing financial security for millions of older Americans, in part by underestimating how many policyholders would use their coverage.
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They can be, but it depends on your driving habits. We break it down for you.
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Wildfire smoke from the Western United States and Canada is blowing across the Northeast, lowering air quality and endangering vulnerable populations.
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A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans.
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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 28 people had been hospitalized with listeria infections across a dozen states.
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Officials found no evidence of silent infections in 35 Michigan dairy workers, but experts noted that much more data was necessary.
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As patients consider drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro to treat obesity, experts say the choices are not so simple.
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The chief executive and a lead scientist stepped down weeks after a federal grand jury filed fraud charges against a research collaborator.
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A Public Health Service employee, he turned whistle-blower after learning of decades-long research involving hundreds of poor, infected Black men who were left untreated.
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A common antibiotic, doxycycline, greatly reduced cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia when taken every day, a study found.
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In the first two years of the pandemic, the rate of long Covid was starkly lower among people who were vaccinated, researchers reported.
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A new study adds to evidence that the shots can reduce the chances of developing one of the most dreaded consequences of Covid.
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A small new study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin in a controlled setting.
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A study of more than a million Danes found that frequent moves in childhood had a bigger effect than poverty on adult mental health risk.
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Even as the H5N1 virus evolves, gaps remain in the nation’s contingency plans for human testing, scientists say.
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Mental health experts have said that the 988 hotline for mental health emergencies is still a work in progress, in need of more funding, coordination and awareness.
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Some families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future for them. But Sarah Kliff, an investigative health care reporter for The New York Times, explains that the cells are rarely useful and are sometimes contaminated.
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Conventional toilet paper has a big environmental impact. We’ve got the lowdown on alternatives, from bamboo tissue to bidets.
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Millions of parents have paid to bank blood from their infants’ umbilical cords. But storage companies have misled them about the cells’ promise.
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Families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future. But the cells are rarely useful, and sometimes contaminated.
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Encouraged on social media, many Americans are estranging themselves from their families as a therapeutic step.
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We’re reporting on the challenges that fertility clinics face as they store a growing number of frozen embryos.
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The cases, which have yet to be confirmed, were identified in farmworkers culling infected birds. The risk to the public remains low, health officials said.
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Frank and funny, the taboo-breaking therapist said things on television and radio that would have been shocking coming from almost anyone else.
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The Apgar test grades infants in five areas, including skin tone. Babies of color score lower, and may be subjected to unnecessary treatment.
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The Biden administration set stringent new federal staffing rules. But for years, nursing homes have failed to meet the toughest standards set by states.
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Here are the telltale signs to look for in nursing homes to avoid, and resources that can point to better places.
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More than a million public records were used to assess whether nursing homes were meeting state staffing minimums.
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A leading biochemist, she helped shape guidelines in the 1970s for genetic-engineering while calming public fears of a spread of deadly lab-made microbes.
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As health plans increasingly rely on technology to deny treatment, physicians are fighting back with chatbots that synthesize research and make the case.
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