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Since August 2021, Ann Yoachim’s mind has felt like a dry-erase board. Yoachim was once someone who toggled through ideas easily, leading meetings as the director of Tulane University’s Small Center

Health personnel are preparing injection syringes with Covid-19 vaccine in 2021 in Copenhagen, Denmark. the country has now announced it will suspend its vaccination program and will review whether it

April 29, 2022 -- U.S. researchers are planning to study how often and why coronavirus levels come back for some COVID-19 patients who take Pfizer’s Paxlovid drug, according to Bloomberg News. The CD

Some of these health systems are already in place, but could use a boost to broaden their focus, Bernstein said. Take malaria, for instance: The global push to eradicate diseases like malaria means th

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As you gaze across the rows of brightly colored fruits and vegetables in the produce section of the grocery store, you may not be aware that the quantity of nutrients in these crops has been declining

Americans are abandoning their masks. They’re done with physical distancing. And, let’s face it, some people are just never going to get vaccinated. This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished

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Lawyers for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and many of those who had claims against the company over the toll of opioids joined together Friday to urge a federal judicial panel to advance a plan that w

Veterans Affairs officials will expand their research into the long-term detrimental effects of COVID-19 even as they brace for the possibility of more short-term flare ups caused by the virus in the

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The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that there have been more than 150 suspected cases of salmonellosis - from Belgium to the US - after United Kingdom regulators flagged a cluster of Salm

NICE says a joint replacement may be the right option for some and that hospitals should not be turning away people who could benefit, but are overweight. Obesity is not a bar to surgery, but losing w

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© Provided by KIRO Seattle State and local public health officials are on heightened alert, as Washington’s tuberculosis cases are on the rise, according to the Washington State Department of Health.

(CNN) The United States is "certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase," Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute

Metabolism Research from the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt University suggests that sulforaphane should be clinically evaluated for weight loss and obesity-associated metabolic disorders. Ke

A government watchdog report released Thursday found private Medicare plans routinely rejected claims that should have been paid and denied services that reviewers found to be medically necessary. Th

The number of ways in which climate change is predicted to affect human life and vitality continues to increase. Scientists now believe that global warming will significantly increase the number of v

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When a swarm of seemingly unrelated symptoms disrupted Angela Yawn’s life, she thought she was going crazy. She gained weight — 115 pounds over six years — even as she tried to eat less. Her skin tor

AstraZeneca's monoclonal antibody combination tixagevimab-cilgavimab (Evusheld) reduced the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 infection by 83% over placebo at a median follow-up of 6 months, finds a phase

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A vial of measles vaccine is checked at a field logistics base run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the town of Boso-Manzi in Mongala province in the Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2020.

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