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RFK Jr. Is Changing His Anti-Vax Tune. Don’t Fall for It.

RFK Jr. Is Changing His Anti-Vax Tune. Don’t Fall for It.
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Lisa Jarvis

Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk

Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk
24.01.2025 7

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Too Many Kids Are Dying From the Flu. We Can Fix That.

Too Many Kids Are Dying From the Flu. We Can Fix That.

Flu, RSV, Covid, norovirus. Name it, and you probably know someone suffering from it — and out there spreading it. Yet, as viruses run rampant this...

19.01.2025 10

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It's Time to Rethink How Safe Alcohol Is

It's Time to Rethink How Safe Alcohol Is

January is that time of year when we pause to examine our health habits, and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory with an important data...

11.01.2025 10

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Whooping Cough Vaccine Has an Awareness Problem

Whooping Cough Vaccine Has an Awareness Problem

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a...

09.01.2025 5

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We've Accepted Wegovy and Zepbound. The Next Phase Is Harder.

This time last year, people were still bickering about whether Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zepbound represented a shortcut to...

25.12.2024 10

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Why a Recent Pig Kidney Transplant Is a Major Advance

Last month, 53-year old Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, became the third patient to receive a kidney from a genetically engineered pig. This...

23.12.2024 10

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The Bar for Successful Obesity Drugs Is Rising

In a new study, an experimental obesity drug from Novo Nordisk called CagriSema allowed people to lose more than 20% of their body weight, on...

21.12.2024 10

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IVF Can Be an Ordeal. Finally, Science Has a Better Way.

Anyone who has undergone IVF will tell you that the process can be daunting. It involves weeks of mood-altering, bloat-inducing hormone injections...

19.12.2024 8

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The Supreme Court Should Stand Up for Transgender Teens

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears likely to guarantee a bleak future for the nation’s transgender adolescents — one where...

05.12.2024 2

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The HPV Vaccine Saves Lives. RFK Jr. Shouldn’t Mess With That.

New research has again demonstrated the enormous value of the HPV vaccine, which protects against the virus responsible for more than 90% of...

04.12.2024 2

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The Case for Getting the Government to Pay for Wegovy

27.11.2024 3

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Slashing Medicaid for Trump's Tax Cuts Would Hurt Millions

Medicaid, the program that provides vital health insurance coverage to one in five Americans, is being targeted for deep cuts. The effects could be...

25.11.2024 3

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RFK Jr.’s Junk Science Will Put Every American at Risk

The worst-case scenario for health in the US is much closer to reality this week after President-elect Donald Trump said he had chosen Robert F....

15.11.2024 3

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Bird Flu Is About to Crash Flu Season. It Could Get Ugly.

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in US dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up. That...

15.11.2024 2

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Leaving Abortion Rights to the States Isn't Working

When Missouri voters codified abortion rights in the state’s constitution last week, it was a bright spot in an otherwise dark week for...

12.11.2024 40

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Trump’s Health-Care Plan Is Mostly Just RFK Jr.

When former President Donald Trump alluded to “concepts of a plan” for health care during his September debate against Vice President Kamala...

02.11.2024 10

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IV Shortage After Hurricane Helene Reveals a Bigger Problem

Three weeks after Hurricane Helene, the frantic hunt for critical, basic medical products continues. The storm knocked out production at Baxter...

27.10.2024 2

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Is Weed Bad For You? Marijuana's Health Impacts Still Aren't Known

Vice President Kamala Harris this week confirmed she supports the legalization of marijuana. It’s a change of heart that acknowledges the decades...

16.10.2024 2

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Google DeepMind Nobel Showcases AI’s Medical Potential

Today’s Nobel Prize in chemistry is an incredible vote of confidence in the potential for artificial intelligence to transform the way medicines...

09.10.2024 1

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Nobel Prize for Medicine Recognizes MicroRNA — and Curiosity

In a climate where so much time and energy is spent trying to tackle human disease, Monday’s Nobel Prize in the category of physiology or medicine...

08.10.2024 1

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The GOP's New Anti-Vaccine Laws Will Hurt Kids

In the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, US politicians aren’t just badmouthing vaccines — they’re pushing through laws that undermine them. If...

07.10.2024 5

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Using Trans Kids as Political Pawns Is a Dangerous Game

Since 2020, the US has seen an explosion in laws targeting transgender youth. Hundreds of bills have sought to restrict which sport teams they can...

04.10.2024 1

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Pfizer Owes Sickle Cell Patients a Better Explanation

The note was only a few paragraphs long, but sent shockwaves through the community of sickle cell disease specialists: Pfizer Inc.was pulling the...

28.09.2024 3

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Who’s Really Keeping Ozempic and Wegovy Prices So High?

On Tuesday, Congressional leaders spent two hours taking to task Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen over the high price of the company’s...

25.09.2024 3

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Abortion Bans Killed Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller

This week brought confirmation of what so many feared would happen if Roe v. Wade was overturned: Women have died because of abortion bans. The...

21.09.2024 2

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Oregon Had a Bold Plan to Help Drug Addicts. Then Fentanyl Showed Up.

This month, a brief, ambitious and many would say calamitous experiment came to an end: Oregon rolled back Measure 110, its policy decriminalizing...

19.09.2024 2

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We’re Finally Starting to Understand the Pregnant Brain

“Pregnancy brain” is often treated as a punchline, but a new study shows it’s a stunning metamorphosis that scientists are just beginning to...

16.09.2024 2

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The Best Treatment for Covid Is Still Too Hard to Get

We’re still asking people with Covid to jump through far too many hoops to get their hands on Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid. I experienced the barriers...

11.09.2024 2

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Louisiana’s Abortion Law Is Harming Women Before It Even Takes Effect

In October, a chilling law will take effect in Louisiana that could compromise women’s health. It will certainly hinder doctors’ ability to...

07.09.2024 2

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Getting an IUD Doesn’t Need to Be Excruciating

Anyone who watched Olympic bronze medalist Ilona Maher giving her rugby opponents the stiff arm knows she is tough as nails. Yet she recently posted...

04.09.2024 3

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Some People Can Wait to Get the New Covid Shot

The latest Covid vaccines from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. are hitting US pharmacy shelves, raising a now-perennial fall question: Will anyone...

29.08.2024 20

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Wildfire Smoke Can Hurt You in Surprising Ways

Spring and summer in the US now come with a new normal: days and even weeks where the acrid overhang of wildfire smoke forces us indoors. At its...

26.08.2024 2

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Bizarre Raw Milk Trend Is Putting Kids at Risk

If there’s one thing that wasn’t on my bingo card for 2024, it was this: that amid a national outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows, sales of raw...

10.08.2024 9

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‘Tampon Tim’ Walz Is a Weird Meme Behind a Real Problem

Within hours of Vice President Kamala Harris announcing her running mate, certain corners of the internet had exploded with “Tampon Tim” memes,...

09.08.2024 50

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Fake Obesity Drugs Are Genuinely Dangerous

We’re firmly in the “buyer beware” era of obesity drugs. And unfortunately, it seems like we’re going to be stuck here for a while — even...

06.08.2024 7

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Trans Kids’ Health Care Deserves a More Nuanced Discussion

Just a few years ago, most Americans probably didn’t think much about transgender adolescents. But in 2020, the political rhetoric began to...

03.08.2024 3

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Youth Suicide Is Rising. Blame America’s Gun Obsession.

Researchers have found that over the last decade, more tweens — especially young girls and Black children — are dying by suicide. Worse,...

31.07.2024 2

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Simone Biles Is Redefining Resilience

With the Olympics underway in Paris, the world has a front seat to something truly magical: the gravity-defying skills of US gymnast Simone Biles....

28.07.2024 7

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Extreme Heat Is Making Our Mental Health Worse

On Monday, planet Earth achieved a terrifying milestone: Global temperatures reached their highest level in recorded history, breaking a record set...

26.07.2024 1

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Biden Has Covid and the Summer Surge Is Officially Here

Last night the White House announced that President Joe Biden had tested positive for Covid, making him the most prominent example of this...

18.07.2024 1

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