By PAULA SPAN
When very old patients suffer cardiac arrest, doctors usually try to revive them — even if they were already near death.
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By JULIA CARMEL
A self-described “feminist therapist,” she was a prominent voice in the anti-psychiatry movement, contending that the field is patriarchal.
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY and RONI CARYN RABIN
The government took the rare step with 195 Americans who have been undergoing testing for the coronavirus at a California air base after being flown home from the Chinese city.
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and PORAS CHAUDHARY
This sacred river offers clues to the spread of one of the world’s most daunting health problems: germs impervious to common medicines.
Published: December 22, 2019 at 07:00PM
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By EMMA GOLDBERG
They have M.D.s, but are they up for this challenge?
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
Thanks to a loophole in the F.D.A.’s new flavor ban, teenagers are switching from Juul to disposable e-cigarettes still available in flavors like Cherry Crush and Unicorn.
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By ELLEN GABLER
Medication errors come in many forms. Check the label. Read the instructions. Ask your pharmacist questions.
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By ELLEN GABLER
Pharmacists across the U.S. warn that the push to do more with less has made medication errors more likely. “I am a danger to the public,” one wrote to a regulator.
Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By AUSTIN RAMZY and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
The announcement came as nearly 8,000 cases have been reported worldwide, almost all of them in mainland China.
Published: January 29, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
States will be able to cap a portion of spending for the safety-net program, a change likely to diminish the number of people covered by the health program.
Published: January 29, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
President Trump is expected to sign it into law as part of the overall spending package. Some advocates warn that more action is needed to reduce teenage vaping of e-cigarettes.
Published: December 18, 2019 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
The time to prevent more epidemics is now, and countries are trying to seize the moment.
Published: January 28, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Stores are selling out of masks, and health care workers risk infection if they cannot get the protective gear.
Published: January 28, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
The Food and Drug Administration told the maker of Purell hand sanitizers to discontinue marketing campaigns that the agency complained also included claims for avoiding illness from other viruses.
Published: January 27, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By KNVUL SHEIKH and KATIE THOMAS
New technology and better coordination have sped up development. But a coronavirus vaccine is still months — and most likely years — away.
Published: January 27, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By RONI CARYN RABIN and DENISE GRADY
As China agrees to permit expert teams into the country, the U.S. plans to begin evaluating arriving passengers for the infection at 20 ports of entry.
Published: January 27, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A patient in Southern California is the third person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China, health officials said.
Published: January 25, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Predict, a government research program, sought to identify animal viruses that might infect humans and to head off new pandemics.
Published: October 24, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By PAM BELLUCK
If the state doesn’t stop requiring private insurers to cover abortions, the administration said it will cut off federal funding for certain health programs.
Published: January 23, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Federal health officials are monitoring 63 other people in 22 states for signs of infection.
Published: January 23, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
The company executive, John Kapoor, was accused of bribing doctors and misleading insurers to increase sales of a highly addictive painkiller.
Published: January 22, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
They may help, but experts say it’s more important to wash your hands.
Published: January 22, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Epidemics of related viruses, like SARS, killed hundreds. But the W.H.O. has postponed a decision on whether the new outbreak is a global emergency.
Published: January 21, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
In a new report, he cited a number of helpful smoking cessation methods but said that e-cigarettes haven’t yet been proven to be an effective method.
Published: January 22, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
The number of cases outside China is small, and the disease does not seem to be spreading within other countries.
Published: January 22, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By LI YUAN
Beijing has responded faster to the new threat than it did with SARS, but it still silences and punishes those who veer from the official line, with potentially damaging consequences.
Published: January 21, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and others say they have agreed to invest in a nonprofit’s effort to develop and sell cheaper drugs.
Published: January 22, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By GINA SIDDIQUI and GOLDEN COSMOS
In the typical emergency room, demand far outpaces the care that workers can provide. Can the E.R. be fixed?
Published: December 15, 2019 at 07:00PM
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By ANDREW JACOBS
In a new study, the health agency urges hospitals and surgeons to play a bigger role to help the world’s 1 billion smokers kick the habit.
Published: January 21, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Epidemics of related viruses, like SARS, killed hundreds. Now the World Health Organization must decide whether to declare another global health emergency.
Published: January 21, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Epidemics of related viruses, like SARS, killed hundreds. Now the World Health Organization must decide whether to declare another global health emergency.
Published: January 21, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By KAREN ZRAICK
A mysterious virus has caused an international outbreak of respiratory illness. Now the infection has arrived in the U.S.
Published: January 20, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
A person in Washington State is infected with a new respiratory virus. The outbreak began at a market in China and now has spread to at least four other countries.
Published: January 20, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Doctors at the Mayo Clinic examined samples of lung tissue from 17 patients, all of which looked as if the people had been exposed to toxic chemicals, the researchers said.
Published: October 1, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By HEATHER MURPHY
Scientists discovered a previously unidentified genetic mutation in a Scottish woman. They hope it could lead to the development of new pain treatment.
Published: March 27, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States.
Published: May 6, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three U.S. airports will screen passengers arriving from central China for a new virus that has sickened dozens, killed two and prompted worries about an international outbreak, health officials said Friday.
Published: January 16, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY
Humility is not the boldest of personality traits, but it’s an important one, studies find. And it’s hard to fake.
Published: October 20, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By APOORVA MANDAVILLI
Two antibiotics, taken for a month, can stop a leading killer. But “when it’s for TB, people just sort of shrug.”
Published: September 22, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
The drug coverage gap was widely loathed, but the new scheme may still leave some older Americans holding the bag.
Published: January 16, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By ANDREW JACOBS
In two new reports, the global health agency says only government intervention can fix the broken market for new antimicrobial drugs.
Published: January 16, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
A Philadelphia judge lowered the damages in a case that claimed Johnson & Johnson played down the risks of an antipsychotic drug.
Published: January 16, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By JAN HOFFMAN
As families face back-to-school medical requirements this month, the country feels the impact of a vaccine resistance movement decades in the making.
Published: September 22, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Passengers from Wuhan, China, will be screened at J.F.K. beginning Friday night, and in San Francisco and Los Angeles starting Saturday.
Published: January 16, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By JACEY FORTIN
In a video last month, a North Carolina woman shared a tip about battling “stupid charges.” Thousands responded — some in gratitude, others to commiserate over the baffling costs of health care.
Published: January 15, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What’s more, it’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear when it will fall again.
Published: January 13, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
The evidence is too weak to justify telling individuals to eat less beef and pork, according to new research. The findings “erode public trust,” critics said.
Published: September 29, 2019 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
In many poor countries, older surgeons resist being questioned, and operations are more often emergencies, which leaves less time to review checklists.
Published: January 14, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By MIHIR ZAVERI
It was the latest study to suggest that effects of wage increases reach beyond economic welfare, but some experts pushed back on the findings.
Published: January 13, 2020 at 07:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
The rare operation has implications for wounded soldiers, accident victims, cancer patients and those undergoing sex reassignment.
Published: December 5, 2019 at 07:00PM
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