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‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and living with cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too.

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The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances-White

Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe.

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Tit for tat tariffs highlight need to up our game

Making India the med device makers/innovator of the world needs an image shift from low cost to high value.

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STAT+: Federal judge issues permanent injunction on Trump cuts to research overhead payments

A ruling on Friday sets up the next chapter of the legal battle between the Trump administration and stakeholders in academic research.

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A Federal Lab That Tracked Rising S.T.I.s Has Been Shuttered

The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.

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Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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Embattled TAVR Device Myval Meets Expectations in Trial, but Trouble Still Ahead

(MedPage Today) -- For a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) platform, the much-litigated Myval performed well enough in the COMPARE-TAVI 1 randomized trial, but

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Switch to Tirzepatide in T2D More Effective Than Upping Dulaglutide Dose

(MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients on dulaglutide (Trulicity) had better glycemic control and more weight loss if they switched to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) rather than increasing the dose of the earl

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STAT+: Trump administration declines to expand Medicare coverage for obesity drugs

The Trump administration has chosen not to finalize a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would have allowed Medicare to cover blockbuster weight loss drugs.

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NIOSH Workers Wonder, 'Who Is Going to Carry on My Work?'

(MedPage Today) -- This week's cuts to HHS staffing have left employees at one agency division wondering what will become of all of their research.

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