Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Researchers have just added a few more to the list.
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The court order, in a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana, pauses a Food and Drug Administration regulation that greatly expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
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Americans can’t afford the higher health insurance premiums that resulted from Congress’s refusal to extend federal tax credits.
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Jenna Norton had filed a whistle-blower complaint claiming that the agency leadership had retaliated against her.
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Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved treatment that may prolong their lives.
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With Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aiming to rein in the use of psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists are preemptively addressing how and when patients should quit taking them.
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Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Dr. Sara Brenner is a physician, an F.D.A. official and a “MAHA mom” who has said people should not reflexively believe in the benefits of vaccines.
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A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm.
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Prosecutors accused Dr. David Morens, a former adviser to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, of hiding records related to the onset of the pandemic.
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In a letter to states and other grant recipients, the Trump administration says the strips encourage drug use.
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The case could help determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against the maker of a popular herbicide over claims that it causes cancer.
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The desire to live longer and healthier lives has spawned a growth in services and supplements. So what works best?
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Before the rise of GLP-1s, obesity experts didn’t study the internal buzz that compels people to eat. Now that food noise is being switched off, they want to understand it.
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A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging.
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Fatimah Shepherd’s kidneys were compromised, and pregnancy could send her into kidney failure.
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His work changed how doctors understood heart attacks, heart failure and coronary artery disease, and helped lead to therapies that saved millions of lives.
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A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.
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Calley Means remained president of a company that relied on health savings accounts last year as the Trump administration developed policies to expand them.
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From the Kremlin to Silicon Valley, some of the most powerful people in the world now want something more: eternal life.
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