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Should We Test Babies for Incurable Diseases?

Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about.

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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …

I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’.

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Trump Decried Crime in America, Then Gutted Funding for Gun Violence Prevention

The U.S. Department of Justice canceled $500 million in grants to public safety organizations nationwide, including some that address gun violence. A clinic in St.

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Rewriting of Covid vaccine recommendations has doctors and other experts worried

The rewriting of government recommendations will make the effort to get vaccine doses into arms exponentially more difficult, experts say.

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Opinion: Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to

The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.

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Opinion: Ending U.S.-global health research partnerships will cost America

U.S. research on HIV, tuberculosis, Covid-19, mpox, and other fast-moving epidemics is under threat by a hastily announced NIH policy.

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STAT+: A cautious culture cost Novo Nordisk its lead in the obesity drug race, former employees say

Novo Nordisk’s stock has tumbled over 50% since its peak around a year ago, and it just ousted its CEO. Former employees say the company's cautious culture is to blame.

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Women, care, and wellbeing in a changing environment of Central India

Shyamal Santra, Associate Director - Health & Nutrition & Co-Designer of Neighborhoods of Care (NoC), Transform Rural India, explores the gendered impact of climate change on rural women, pa

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Contraception warning over weight-loss drugs after dozens of pregnancies

UK watchdog has had 40 reports relating to pregnancies in people using drugs such as Ozempic and MounjaroWomen using weight-loss drugs have been urged to use effective contraception after dozens have

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IIT Delhi, AIIMS Delhi to establish a CoE for AI in Healthcare

The AI-CoE will focus on developing AI-based solutions for supporting key national health programs in the country

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