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Health By Rachel Cohrs

What happens when the government stops buying Covid-19 vaccines?

The federal government has distributed Covid-19 vaccines and treatments for free so far, but most likely, the handouts won’t last forever.

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Health Tech By Casey Ross

Google taps FDA’s former digital health chief for global strategy role

Health By Jason Mast

FDA rejects antidepressant seen as possible Covid-19 treatment

Health By Helen Branswell

Puzzling pediatric hepatitis cases echo an earlier mysterious illness

Health By Andrew Joseph

What the current spike in Covid-19 cases could say about the coronavirus’ future

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First Opinion By Danielle Wenner and Gabriela Arguedas Ramírez

Omitting long Covid from pandemic messaging is harmful for public health

In the Lab By Jason Mast

In radical claim, study suggests inflammation wards off chronic pain instead of causing it

Health By Mike Stobbe — Associated Press

U.S. overdose deaths hit record 107,000 in 2021, CDC says

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Firearm deaths and disparities both grew in pandemic’s first year

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

STATUS List Spotlight: Sisters Oni and Uché Blackstock talk about their mother and impactful moments in their careers

Health By Alex Hogan

Watch: A STAT reporter’s race to keep up with Covid-19

Health By J. Emory Parker

The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

Health By Isabella Cueto

Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans should be screened at lower BMI for diabetes, study says

Health By Helen Branswell

CDC investigating 109 unusual hepatitis cases in kids in outbreak

Health By Miriam Shuchman

Surgeons navigating their pregnancies see a bleak picture getting a bit brighter

Health By Helen Branswell

FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, citing clotting risk

Exclusive By Nicholas Florko

Prisons didn’t prescribe much Paxlovid or other Covid-19 treatments, even when they got the drugs

Health By Carla K. Johnson — Associated Press

Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates

Health By Helen Branswell

WHO: Nearly 15 million died as a result of Covid-19 in first two years of pandemic

Health By Lev Facher

‘Lives could be at stake’: CDC’s Walensky warns of dire stakes surrounding abortion access

Health By Helen Branswell

With usual suspects ruled out, disease detectives try to crack mystery of viral hepatitis cases in kids

Exclusive By Rick Berke

Gates Foundation CEO has ‘zero expectation’ that Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair after divorce

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Health By Megan Molteni

More uniformly infectious, more treatable, more genetically predictable: How coronavirus is getting closer to flu

Biotech By Jonathan Wosen

Early cancer-detection market heats up as Guardant Health launches colon cancer test

Biotech By Matthew Herper

Paxlovid’s failure as a preventative measure raises questions, but doctors still back it as a therapeutic

Health By Helen Branswell

Colorado man’s positive test for bird flu puts 10 people under health surveillance

Health By Helen Branswell

CDC reports first human H5 bird flu infection in U.S.

Health By Allison DeAngelis

Incoming JAMA editor says the journal’s issues handling race are ‘not unique to JAMA’

Health By Lauran Neergaard — Associated Press