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What to Know About Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills and Punish Women Who Seek Abortion

(MedPage Today) -- Lawmakers in some states where abortion is already banned are seeking to explicitly bar abortion pills or take a step that most leading anti-abortion groups oppose: punish women wh

Two biotech companies claim they use AI to design drugs from scratch. Do they?

In the latest edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: Biotech companies and hype around how AI is used in designing new drugs, and more.

Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 9, while 265 others are being monitored under quarantine

Ebola cases in Uganda have risen to nine, while 265 other people were being monitored under quarantine, health authorities said Tuesday.

How Complete Is Your Patient's Electronic Health Record, Really?

(MedPage Today) -- If it's not right there in the electronic health record, did it really happen? Every once in a while (maybe more often than that), a patient comes to see us after a brief or prolon

Asian five-year-olds in England 70% more likely to have tooth decay than average

Children in most deprived areas more than twice as likely to have decay as those in least deprived parts, data showsAsian five-year-olds in England are 70% more likely to have tooth decay than the nat

White House Defies Judge's Order; Senators Push Back; Joint Pain Product Warning

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about AI prescribing drugs, a Novartis deal, and more

Artificial intelligence could be used to prescribe medications to patients — if a new bill makes its way through Congress

Did RFK Jr really drink fish medicine? He definitely has weird ideas about ‘making America healthy again’ | Arwa Mahdawi

The supplement-loving anti-vaxxer could well be the US’s next health secretary.

Vertex pain pill dominates earnings call discussion

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Halt on Trump administration’s cuts to NIH research payments expanded nationwide

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments.

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