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WASHINGTON — On its face, a minor policy to make sure Medicare pays hospitals the…
WASHINGTON — On its face, a minor policy to make sure Medicare pays hospitals the…
In Ukraine, a little bit of good news can go a long way, and the…
After weeks of anticipation, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments to decide…
One of the hardest parts about getting an X-ray or a CT scan is the…
When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized…
The Texas attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing Pfizer of “unlawfully” and “intentionally” misrepresenting…
WASHINGTON — House Republicans sought Thursday to hammer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
Are ADCs having a moment? Is CAR-T safe? And who’s to blame for failed trials?…
Radiology has long led the way in the application of artificial intelligence in medicine. More…
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AbbVie will pay $10 billion for the biotech firm Immunogen, the company said Thursday, acquiring…
Worried about your health? You can now avail yourself of noninvasive diagnostics that claim to…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — There was the beeping of monitors, the stiff sheets, the sterile smell…
In June 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect. The federal law…
Many commonly suggested ways to addressing climate change present few ethical challenges: Cut fossil fuels….
LONDON — Data from half a million people’s whole genome sequences are now available to…
Cigna and Humana are in discussions to merge, a potential move that would create a…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling against a Trump-era regulation that…
NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year…
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief scientist will replace retiring Janet Woodcock as principal…
UnitedHealth Group has about 90,000 employed or affiliated doctors, approximately 10% of all physicians in…
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a case that could end up deciding whether…
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The Hevolution Foundation, a Saudi investment firm focused on aging science, said Wednesday that it…
Many parts of neuroscience research have a race problem. Black people are often excluded from…
When Prozac first entered the psychiatry scene in in the late ’80s, the profession was…
The announcement on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration was investigating whether CAR-T immunotherapy…
Ashley Conway-Anderson was prepared for a lot of things when it came to her first…
WASHINGTON — A top White House official on Tuesday delivered a pointed attack at a…
WASHINGTON — One of the Republican party’s most prominent health care thinkers doesn’t know what…
A study questioned colonoscopies as the gold standard of colon cancer screens. Then it raised…
WASHINGTON — President Biden is using a Cold War-era law to stem drug shortages by…
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it is investigating whether CAR-T therapy, which…
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is being accused by a group of advocates and physicians of refusing to…
Mayo Clinic will spend $5 billion to reinvent its flagship medical campus in Rochester, Minn.,…
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Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Cool breezes and…
Belgium drugmaker Argenx said Tuesday that its antibody medicine failed to achieve the goals of…
In response to strained budgets, a growing number of state and local governments across the…
Since the FDA’s approval of lecanemab (marketed as Leqembi) and Medicare’s recent decision to cover…
Hormone replacement therapies have long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use…
Investors, analysts, doctors, and even patients face an avalanche of news from biotech companies about…
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first treatment for people with desmoid…
Just 3% of more than 3,700 studies run exclusively in Canada over a recent 10-year…
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Amid concerns over the use of medically important antibiotics given to food-producing livestock, sales of…