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BREAKING: Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration invited the leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to a celebratory “Vaccine Summit” on Tuesday. Neither plans to attend.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration quietly spent $10 billion from a fund Congress created to help health care providers with Covid-19 costs, and used it on Operation Warp Speed contracts instead.
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New research finds that crows can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
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“He will reach out to Tony Fauci. He will declare his intent to be an active participant in the WHO and in the world. And I believe that in very short order, he’ll be in touch with governors and mayors around the country."
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BREAKING: The first known U.S. case of the highly transmissible variant of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K. has been reported in Colorado. Story to come.
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Johnson & Johnson expanded global access to tuberculosis drug this week amid novelist and YouTube star John Green joining an advocacy campaign.
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It felt like an interrogation, as if she were being accused of doing something wrong, of causing the loss of a pregnancy she hadn’t even known about when she arrived at urgent care. She wished she hadn’t come to see the doctor at all.
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The state agreed to set aside vaccines for local distribution, but the events were planned on short notice, with few resources to help spread the word, and no way to reserve appointments for people in the community.
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A STAT investigation found that Black residents leave or are terminated from training programs at far higher rates than white residents.
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Opinion: If medical professionals don't gather safely at meetings and annual conferences, how can other professionals, not to mention the general public, be expected to do that?
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For many young people, colon cancer was never on their radar. But since the 1990s, even as colorectal cancer rates have declined for people 50 and older, they have more than doubled among American adults under 50.
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BREAKING: President-elect Joe Biden has turned to two prominent physicians to lead his coronavirus task force who have signaled that they will approach the pandemic far differently than the Trump administration.
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Federal prosecutors indicted Teva Pharmaceuticals of conspiring with other manufacturers of fixing prices for generic drugs, the seventh drug maker to be accused as part of a long-running government probe.
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He died by suicide. In an unusual step, his wife sued his pain doctors — a rare legal challenge to physicians over their decisions to reduce patients’ opioid doses.
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BREAKING: President Trump’s medical said Sunday the president is on dexamethasone, a steroid normally used for severe Covid-19 — increasing speculation about the severity of the president’s illness.
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Reopening some states is "like having a peeing section in the swimming pool," as one public health official put it. The coronavirus "doesn’t stay where you started.”
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A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that closing all of a state’s schools was associated with a drastic decrease in both Covid-19 cases and deaths. buff.ly/3hM4VRq
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People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 appear to have a much lower likelihood of developing long Covid than unvaccinated people even when they contract the coronavirus, according to a new study.
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An Arizona ER doctor has emerged as a vocal leader speaking out on behalf of health care workers and against politicians who aren’t working harder to contain Covid-19.
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A JAMA podcast — whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine — is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.
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"Black women deserve to be heard — and treated with dignity and respect — throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period," said Vice President Kamala Harris.
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#News: As Covid-19 cases begin again to spike throughout the United States, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said she has begun experiencing a “recurring” feeling of “impending doom.”
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Opinion: How do I explain the terrible irony to my Covid-19 patients that we allow the president to put on gatherings of thousands of people in our communities yet they must die alone without the comfort of their own families? buff.ly/3k4P9ml
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While U.S. medical schools have talked for years about their efforts to enroll more students of color, the new data underscore how little progress has been made.
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Based on the newly published data, the WHO issued new treatment guidelines calling for steroids to become the standard of care for patients hospitalized with Covid-19.
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A member of President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 task force is advocating for federal scientists — rather than high-ranking political appointees — to take on the daily work of informing the public about the pandemic beginning in January.
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The prospect of contending with a prolonged outbreak phase — and adjusting again to a constantly evolving roster of restrictions — has brought back another feature of pandemic living: anger.
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Exclusive: The Biden administration is preparing a sweeping initiative to develop a next generation of #Covid-19 immunizations that would thwart future coronavirus variants and dramatically reduce rates of coronavirus infection or transmission.
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Two new reports, the result of an 18-month congressional investigation, detail the internal strategies Celgene and Teva used to repeatedly hike the price of two blockbuster drugs.
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Vaccine experts are concerned the U.S. may be sleepwalking into a policy of recommending annual Covid-19 vaccine boosters — without having generated the evidence to show they are actually needed.
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Children taken to the emergency room for mental health concerns are more likely to be stuck there for extended stays than they were a decade ago.
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Opinion: Children are more likely to suffer from pandemic-associated symptoms than from infection-associated symptoms. School policies should reflect this reality.
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Opinion: Despite all of the sacrifices children made to protect adults last year, many adults have not stepped up for children in return by taking the simple steps needed to keep kids safe.
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Opinion: As decision-makers at organizations decide on their Covid-19 vaccination policy, they should be careful to not let this passion lead the organization to run afoul of the law.
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Opinion: U.S. government scientists helped invent remdesivir, and HHS has a legal and moral duty to ensure access to it in the U.S. and around the world. It has the policy tool it needs to do that.
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#News: New York State reported Thursday that it has detected a case of vaccine-derived #polio in a person in Rockland County, north of New York City, the first such recorded case in the United States since 2013.
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STAT spoke with Andrew Kaczynski at length about his family’s devastating journey — and what he believes must be done to help others dealing with pediatric cancer.
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From the glory days of print magazines to 2020’s Twitter-crazed news cycles, Sharon Begley won more awards and accolades than could fit in an obituary. The accomplishments she was prouder of were making complex ideas accessible to anyone — and beautiful.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen called Novartis's CEO promising access to the president and members of his inner circle. Then-CEO Joe Jimenez instructed his team to reach a deal with Cohen. buff.ly/2wmF13Q
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BREAKING: Trump announces that U.S. is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization. Story to come.
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Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the specter of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough to require hospitalization. buff.ly/3g7HWQi
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"At the beginning of the pandemic, the CDC said that a close contact was somebody that you're indoors with unmasked for 15 minutes or more. The equivalent of that with the Delta variant is not 15 minutes, it's one second."
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New York State health authorities revealed they had detected additional polioviruses in wastewater sampled in two counties north of New York City, findings that signal continued spread of the viruses in the region.
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A small study found that exercising in cold weather burns more calories than exercising in warmer temps. But does that mean you'll lose weight with more vigorous winter workouts?
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A member of Biden’s Covid-19 task force is advocating for federal scientists, not political appointees, to take on the daily work of informing the public about the pandemic.
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Evidence has suggested that Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, could stem an epidemic of throat cancer. But it has also never received approval from the FDA for that use — and it was unclear if it ever would. On Friday, the agency granted that approval.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has become the deadliest disease event in American history, with a death toll surpassing that of the 1918 Spanish flu.
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A humid California lab filled with mutant mosquitoes is at the leading edge of a revolutionary technology that could one day rid the world of scourges like malaria, dengue, and Zika. buff.ly/2ojL19M
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