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Experimental Drug Yields Dramatic Weight Loss

People who got the injection, retatrutide, lost 28 percent of their body weight on average after 80 weeks, Eli Lilly said.
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2 Minnesota Autism Therapy Providers Charged in $46 Million Medicaid Fraud Case

The Justice Department claims that clinics used fake diagnoses and kickbacks to parents to bring children into treatment.
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Ebola Containment Efforts May Have Been Hindered by USAID Shutdown and CDC Cuts

Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.
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Ebola Crisis Sparks Debate Over Global Health Double Standards

To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.
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A U.S. Reckoning Over Chemical Pollution From Military Bases

New Mexico is suing the federal government over PFAS contamination from Cannon Air Force Base. The outcome will affect how courts treat more than 15,000 similar claims nationwide.
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Ebola Was Identified in Congo Weeks Before W.H.O. Declared an Emergency

Early surveillance and testing failed to identify the rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak. An American doctor is among the confirmed cases.
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Children’s Mental Health Visits Have Shot Up, Research Shows

Doctor’s visits for children’s anxiety rose by more than 250 percent over 10 years, according to a study of nearly two million children.
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Abortion Pill Lawsuit Leaves Trump in a Political Bind Ahead of the Midterms

Louisiana wants the Food and Drug Administration to curtail access to the medication. Doing so could cost Republicans at the polls.
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TrumpRx Adds Generic Drugs, With Mark Cuban, GoodRx and Amazon

President Trump announced the addition of 600 medicines to his online drugstore as he appeals to Americans concerned about high drug prices and affordability.
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Insurers’ Delays in Approving Medical Care Persist, Despite Promises

Doctors and patients complain that the controversial practice of prior authorization for treatment and procedures is still widespread.
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Straus Family Creamery Issues Voluntary Ice Cream Recall

Straus Family Creamery asked customers to throw out some tubs sold in May across 17 states. No injuries have been reported, the company said.
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How a Hantavirus Outbreak Turned a Nature Cruise Into a Nightmare

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius set off alarms for a world still traumatized by Covid. For those on board, the danger was much closer.
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Some Medicare Patients Can Now Get Free CBD

The Trump administration has authorized a test program to see if the cannabis compound can ease some symptoms and reduce health care costs among older patients.
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Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Access by Mail to Continue

A federal appeals court ruling against the Food and Drug Administration would have restricted access by mail to mifepristone.
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Pigeons and People Have Been Frenemies for Longer Than You Think

Bones discovered at an archaeological site in Cyprus suggest the birds have been strutting around human settlements since at least 1400 B.C.
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Neanderthal Dentistry, and the Scientist Glad Not to Have Experienced It

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist John Olsen.
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Medicare Coverage for GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs: Cost, Eligibility and What to Know

What you should know about the federal government’s pilot program offering GLP-1s solely for weight loss.
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16 More People in the U.S. Are Being Monitored for Hantavirus, C.D.C. Says

They were passengers on a plane to Johannesburg with an infected Dutch woman who later died.
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Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks

The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread among people without direct contact.
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Will Her Daughter Be Safe at Pali High as It Rebuilds From LA Wildfires?

It’s a nightmare faced by families all around Los Angeles: After wildfire smoke blanketed homes, schools and offices with toxic chemicals, when is it OK to go back?
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