By SHEILA KAPLAN
The drive to reduce opioid use has led patients to clinics offering off-label painkiller injections. Pfizer asked the F.D.A. to ban the treatment years ago.
Published: July 30, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
The agency told seven companies that sell lasers for cosmetic gynecology and related procedures to stop marketing them for unapproved uses.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Dried or powdered centipedes are used in Chinese traditional medicine. But uncooked specimens may contain a parasite that infects the brain, scientists report.
Published: July 29, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By JORDAN RAU and ELIZABETH LUCAS
1,387 facilities got only one out of five stars for staffing because they failed to maintain the required nursing coverage or to provide data proving they did.
Published: July 26, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
A growing chorus, including the Trump administration, is calling for a rethinking of after-the-fact drug discounts that some say contribute to rising prices.
Published: July 26, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By MAYA SALAM
There’s a growing wave of women speaking openly and unabashedly about their health issues, amid concern about increased restrictions on reproductive rights.
Published: July 25, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAM BELLUCK
The drug may be the first to successfully attack both the brain changes and the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Further research will be needed to know if it’s truly effective.
Published: July 24, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
That hot lunch delivered to your door? Your health insurer might pick up the tab.
Published: July 22, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By JAN HOFFMAN
The number of dogs on the popular diets who have developed enlarged hearts is small but concerning. Researchers are beginning to investigate causes.
Published: July 23, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
The outbreak, the first in which a new vaccine was quickly rolled out, was extinguished in less than three months, with 33 deaths.
Published: July 23, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Though voters approved a binding resolution last fall to expand the program, Governor LePage has refused to do it, saying he’d rather go to jail.
Published: July 23, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
A Liberian woman recovered after tending to her dying brother, but infected her family a year later. Being pregnant may have reignited the virus in her.
Published: July 22, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
To find 25,000 participants to enroll in all the approved trials, researchers would have to begin by approaching more than 37 million people with early memory loss.
Published: July 22, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KAREN ZRAICK
More people than ever are discussing periods in public, including a push for “menstrual equity” and an end to tampon taxes. We explain.
Published: July 21, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
Medicare Advantage plans will be allowed to cover adult day care, home modifications and other new benefits. But they may not be available to all enrollees every year.
Published: July 19, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
Thousands of women have complained that the device has caused injuries, including perforation of the uterus.
Published: July 19, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
The drugs singled out for discounts include the flagging hepatitis C treatment Zepatier and six drugs that have lost their patent protection.
Published: July 18, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Death rates from both diseases have risen sharply, particularly among young adults over the last decade. A possible villain: the Great Recession.
Published: July 17, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
The move comes as drug companies scramble to show they are responding to criticism about their rising prices, including from President Trump.
Published: July 17, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER
A new medical scanner, derived from technology used by particle physics researchers at CERN, “is like the upgrade from black-and-white film to color,” one of its developers said.
Published: July 16, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN
The F.D.A. announced that batches of a widely used generic drug, valsartan, made in China, might be tainted with a probable cancer-causing ingredient.
Published: July 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By JAN HOFFMAN
Many medical experts said that relapse is part of recovery and a symptom of disease, and shouldn’t be punished with jail. A court disagreed.
Published: July 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
Articles about the test, known as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, listed some of its questions, potentially influencing future patients.
Published: July 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Following a 20-year campaign, trachoma has been eliminated as a public health menace in at least seven poor countries.
Published: July 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY
Many famous studies of human behavior cannot be reproduced. Even so, they revealed aspects of our inner lives that feel true.
Published: July 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By CHRISTINA CARON
A brief history of the debate in the U.S., from the rise of formula to the Trump administration opposing an international resolution encouraging breast-feeding.
Published: July 13, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Though the disease was eradicated decades ago, national security experts fear that stocks of the virus in labs could be released as a bioweapon.
Published: July 12, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By ERICA GOODE
Animals, like humans, are reluctant to give up on pursuits they’ve invested in, psychologists report.
Published: July 11, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
Scientists report that they have discovered a way to tweak genes in the body’s immune cells by using electrical fields.
Published: July 10, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
An unusual transplant may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain.
Published: July 9, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By ANDREW JACOBS
Trade sanctions. Withdrawal of military aid. The Trump administration used both to try to block a measure that was considered uncontroversial and embraced by countries around the world.
Published: July 7, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By JEREMY WHITE
The number of workers at more than 14,000 nursing homes across the nation varies drastically.
Published: July 6, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By JORDAN RAU
Payroll records for more than 14,000 facilities show that the number of nurses and aides at work dips far below average some days and consistently sinks on weekends.
Published: July 6, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
A new analysis finds the price of certain drugs varies widely depending on what city they are sold in.
Published: July 5, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
State employers “are still learning there’s an age law,” said one attorney, despite the fact it has been on the books for decades.
Published: July 5, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER
But the infection is surging elsewhere, particularly in the Americas.
Published: July 5, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By CHRISTINE HAUSER
The heat wave in the northeastern United States was easing on Thursday, but steamy temperatures are headed west, forecasters say.
Published: July 5, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By REED ABELSON
In spite of Republican attacks, the insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act are stubbornly resilient. While consumers can expect sharp price increases in some areas, premiums are going up modestly in others.
Published: July 2, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By HEATHER MURPHY
The decision to head to the fertility clinic for women in a study had more to do with an absence of suitable men and little to do with getting ahead at work.
Published: July 2, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER
Rates of self-injury are even higher in parts of the United States, according to government data. Boys are half as likely to harm themselves.
Published: July 1, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
Third-party analysis of raw DNA is not as rigorous as that done in a certified laboratory. But many consumers don’t understand that their results are not conclusive.
Published: July 1, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS and CLAIRE BALLENTINE
Amazon has transformed the way Americans buy products as different as books and diapers, but with drugs, it will need to work with powerful entrenched players.
Published: July 1, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY
The World Health Organization has made “internet gaming” a diagnosable disorder. But many experts aren’t even sure it exists.
Published: July 1, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAM BELLUCK and JAN HOFFMAN
Improved contraception and abortion pills mean the back-alley days are largely gone. But more restrictive abortion laws would especially affect poor and minority women.
Published: June 30, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
Summer is “trauma season,” when emergency rooms see a rise in injuries, but a drug supply crisis has doctors scrambling to find alternatives to needed medications.
Published: June 30, 2018 at 08:00PM
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