Health
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What the New C.D.C. Guidelines Mean for You
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed many of its Covid-19 guidelines this week, shifting sharply away from several…
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Some Women ‘Self-Manage’ Abortions as Access Recedes
In states that have banned abortion, some women with unwanted pregnancies are pursuing an unconventional workaround: They are “self-managing ...
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England Overhauls Medical Care for Transgender Youth
The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic…
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Study Finds Another Condition That Vitamin D Pills Do Not Help
The idea made so much sense it was almost unquestioningly accepted: Vitamin D pills can protect bones from fractures. After…
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Teva Reaches Tentative $4.25 Billion Settlement Over Opioids
Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the country’s biggest manufacturers of generic opioids, announced a settlement in principle with some 2,500 local…
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After Roe, Pregnant Women With Cancer Diagnoses May Face Wrenching Choices
In April of last year, Rachel Brown’s oncologist called with bad news — at age 36, she had an aggressive…
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Soaring Overdose Rates in the Pandemic Reflected Widening Racial Disparities
The pandemic’s devastating impact on drug overdose deaths in the United States hit people of color the hardest, with rates…
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A fourth Covid vaccine is cleared for use in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that a newly authorized vaccine from Novavax be used as…
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What Pregnancy and Childbirth Do to the Bodies of Young Girls
After the account a 10-year-old Ohio girl crossing state lines to get an abortion drew national attention last week, some…
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After New Abortion Laws, Some Patients Have Trouble Obtaining Miscarriage Treatment
Last year, a 35-year-old woman named Amanda, who lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, had a miscarriage in the first…
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