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Lisa JarvisBloomberg |
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...
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...
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...
This time last year, people were still bickering about whether Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zepbound represented a shortcut to...
Last month, 53-year old Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, became the third patient to receive a kidney from a genetically engineered pig. This...
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...
Anyone who has undergone IVF will tell you that the process can be daunting. It involves weeks of mood-altering, bloat-inducing hormone injections...
The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears likely to guarantee a bleak future for the nation’s transgender adolescents — one where...
New research has again demonstrated the enormous value of the HPV vaccine, which protects against the virus responsible for more than 90% of...
Medicaid, the program that provides vital health insurance coverage to one in five Americans, is being targeted for deep cuts. The effects could be...
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....
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...
When Missouri voters codified abortion rights in the state’s constitution last week, it was a bright spot in an otherwise dark week for...
When former President Donald Trump alluded to “concepts of a plan” for health care during his September debate against Vice President Kamala...
Three weeks after Hurricane Helene, the frantic hunt for critical, basic medical products continues. The storm knocked out production at Baxter...
Vice President Kamala Harris this week confirmed she supports the legalization of marijuana. It’s a change of heart that acknowledges the decades...
Today’s Nobel Prize in chemistry is an incredible vote of confidence in the potential for artificial intelligence to transform the way medicines...
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...
In the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, US politicians aren’t just badmouthing vaccines — they’re pushing through laws that undermine them. If...
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...
The note was only a few paragraphs long, but sent shockwaves through the community of sickle cell disease specialists: Pfizer Inc.was pulling the...
On Tuesday, Congressional leaders spent two hours taking to task Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen over the high price of the company’s...
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...
This month, a brief, ambitious and many would say calamitous experiment came to an end: Oregon rolled back Measure 110, its policy decriminalizing...
“Pregnancy brain” is often treated as a punchline, but a new study shows it’s a stunning metamorphosis that scientists are just beginning to...
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...
In October, a chilling law will take effect in Louisiana that could compromise women’s health. It will certainly hinder doctors’ ability to...
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...
The latest Covid vaccines from Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. are hitting US pharmacy shelves, raising a now-perennial fall question: Will anyone...
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...
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...
Within hours of Vice President Kamala Harris announcing her running mate, certain corners of the internet had exploded with “Tampon Tim” memes,...
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...
Just a few years ago, most Americans probably didn’t think much about transgender adolescents. But in 2020, the political rhetoric began to...
Researchers have found that over the last decade, more tweens — especially young girls and Black children — are dying by suicide. Worse,...
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....
On Monday, planet Earth achieved a terrifying milestone: Global temperatures reached their highest level in recorded history, breaking a record set...
Last night the White House announced that President Joe Biden had tested positive for Covid, making him the most prominent example of this...