By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEIN
With the cancer center’s corporate ties under scrutiny, the hospital told employees that no one should profit personally from representing MSK on outside boards.
Published: September 28, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Local fighting and fleeing patients led the organization to increase its alert level. The disease has appeared in a Congolese fishing village near Uganda.
Published: September 27, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
Fewer patients are winding up in nursing homes, and hundreds of the facilities are closing each year.
Published: September 27, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By HEATHER MURPHY
The idea that one needs to articulate the personal effects of sexual assault as clearly as Christine Blasey Ford keeps many victims from reporting what happened to them.
Published: September 26, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen’s abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she’d be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the option of antibiotics instead.
Published: September 24, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
The legislation contains a mix of law enforcement and public health measures. Addiction experts say it will help — but not enough.
Published: September 25, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEIN
The change highlights the challenges facing Memorial Sloan Kettering, one of the nation’s most prestigious cancer centers, amid a widening crisis.
Published: September 24, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY and JAN HOFFMAN
How trauma and time alter the way we recollect significant events.
Published: September 24, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The World Health Organization’s cancer research arm estimated in a report released Wednesday that there will be about 18 million new cases of cancer globally this year and more than 9 million deaths.
Published: September 11, 2018 at 08:00PM
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Help us understand the fungus affects people.
Published: September 23, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By RONI CARYN RABIN
A trial enrolling new patients resembles “an experiment that would be conducted on laboratory animals,” one advocacy group said.
Published: September 23, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By GINA KOLATA
A clip used to repair damaged heart valves sharply reduced deaths among patients with a grim prognosis.
Published: September 22, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE HAFNER
In 1983, Sally and Bennett Shaywitz began studying the reading skills of more than 400 children. The subjects are in their 40s now, and the Shaywitzes are still tracking them.
Published: September 20, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER
Three years after finding that laboratories had mishandled deadly pathogens, the Pentagon has no way to measure the effectiveness of its reforms, according to a new report.
Published: September 19, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Active infections kill 4,000 people a day worldwide, more than AIDS does. But the notion that a quarter of the global population harbors silent tuberculosis is “a fundamental misunderstanding.”
Published: September 19, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By CHARLES ORNSTEIN and KATIE THOMAS
A for-profit venture with exclusive rights to use the center’s vast archive of tissue slides has generated concerns at the nonprofit cancer center.
Published: September 19, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By EMILY BAUMGAERTNER
New research found that the painful deposits are surprisingly dynamic, forming much like microscopic coral reefs, and could help with treating them.
Published: September 18, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dick Tracey didn’t have to visit a tall building to get over his fear of heights. He put on a virtual reality headset.
Published: September 17, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By REED ABELSON
The takeover of one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager by a big health insurer is expected to close by the end of the year.
Published: September 16, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Millions take aspirin to prevent heart attacks, strokes and cancer. New research shows older people in good health may not need it — and should not start taking it.
Published: September 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DENISE GRADY
Once a year, doctors travel to Rwanda to perform lifesaving surgery on people with damaged heart valves — a disease caused by untreated strep throat.
Published: September 15, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. health regulators say they’ll convene a public meeting of medical advisers next year to discuss new science on breast implant safety, including an independent analysis that suggests certain rare health problems might be more common with silicone gel implants.
Published: September 13, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By BENEDICT CAREY
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch was seen as an authority on the risks of aggressive screening for breast cancer and over-diagnosis. He disputed the charges.
Published: September 13, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAULA SPAN
Nursing home patients may be frail or have other diseases, leading some doctors to advise hormone therapy rather than operations.
Published: September 13, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEIN
Dr. José Baselga, the cancer center’s chief medical officer, stepped down days after a report that he had not reported millions of dollars as potential conflicts in dozens of research articles.
Published: September 12, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By SHEILA KAPLAN and JAN HOFFMAN
The agency gave top makers of popular vaping devices 60 days to come up with a plan to keep their flavored products away from teenagers or face removal from the market.
Published: September 11, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS
The coveted prize was awarded to a Scottish veterinarian, two scientists who championed an overlooked protein and a pioneering researcher who helped advance the careers of other women.
Published: September 10, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By JAN HOFFMAN
It’s one of the biggest, most expensive American health crises in memory. But the field of addiction medicine is fairly new.
Published: September 9, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KAREN WEINTRAUB
Dr. Matthew Might is developing a strategy for people seeking treatments for little-known ailments.
Published: September 9, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEIN
In an email to staff members, chief executives at Memorial Sloan Kettering responded to news that a top doctor had failed to report links to companies in research articles.
Published: September 8, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By CHARLES ORNSTEIN and KATIE THOMAS
A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research.
Published: September 7, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Unless the $3 billion spent annually on research triples, the world may not be able to invent vaccines or rapid cures for many ills of the poor.
Published: September 6, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By PAM BELLUCK
Judge Kavanaugh’s use of the term in his confirmation hearing resurrected a controversial phrase.
Published: September 6, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Republican and Democratic states clash in oral arguments over whether the health law is unconstitutional now that Congress has eliminated the tax penalty for not having insurance.
Published: September 4, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By REED ABELSON
The Silicon Valley startup is expected to shutter its operations after it failed to deliver revolutionary lab-testing amid allegations of fraud.
Published: September 4, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Early, partial results from a historic gene editing study give encouraging signs that the treatment may be safe and having at least some of its hoped-for effect, but it’s too soon to know whether it ultimately will succeed.
Published: September 4, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By ABBY GOODNOUGH and JAN HOFFMAN
A federal judge in Texas will consider whether to suspend or kill the law. The Trump Administration has chosen not to defend it and its coverage of pre-existing conditions.
Published: September 3, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By CARL ZIMMER
By manipulating DNA, researchers are trying to create microbes that, once ingested, work to treat a rare genetic condition — a milestone in synthetic biology.
Published: September 3, 2018 at 08:00PM
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
New cases are dropping sharply, vaccination is going well and schools are about to open. But it is too soon to declare victory, experts said.
Published: September 1, 2018 at 08:00PM
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