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Health By Katherine Gilyard

Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians

A study using the placebo response shows how patients' unconscious reactions to their doctor's gender or race may steer health outcomes.

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Health By Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper

FDA advisory panel recommends Omicron-containing booster shots

Health By Andrew Joseph

Supreme Court rules that doctors need to knowingly misprescribe opioids for it to be a crime

Health By Helen Branswell

FDA panel to advise on whether — and how — Covid vaccines should be updated

A STAT Investigation By Katie Palmer

Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future

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Health By Edward Chen

In Boston homes, potentially harmful compounds are leaking from stovetops

Health By Andrew Joseph

WHO: Monkeypox outbreak not yet a global public health emergency

Health By Matthew Herper

Pfizer says its Omicron-containing boosters outperform current vaccine

Health By Eric Boodman, Tara Bannow, Bob Herman and Casey Ross

HIPAA won’t protect you if prosecutors want your reproductive health records

Health By Nicholas Florko

Court rules Juul can temporarily keep selling e-cigarettes while it prepares challenge to FDA ban

Politics By Nicholas Florko

The Biden administration wants to get tough on states’ abortion pill restrictions. It won’t be easy

Health By Olivia Goldhill

Supreme Court decision suggests the legal right to contraception is also under threat

Health By Akila Muthukumar

Covid-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in a year, study estimates

Health By Nicholas Florko

FDA orders Juul e-cigarettes off the market in the U.S.

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Special Report By Andrew Joseph

To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA

Health By Theresa Gaffney

These researchers study abortion in states likely to ban it. That will make their jobs even harder

Health By Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper

Comparing the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines for young children

A STAT Investigation By Usha Lee McFarling

‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents

Health By Jason Mast

CDC recommends Pfizer, Moderna Covid vaccines for children under 5

Health By Matthew Herper

FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers

Health By Helen Branswell

A CDC study seeks to provide clues to seeming surge of hepatitis cases in kids

Health By Akila Muthukumar

U.S. Covid test makers anticipate layoffs after government reallocates funds

Health By Usha Lee McFarling

Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated — even long before Covid

Health By Isabella Cueto

Girl’s case of lupus leads to new understanding of a perplexing disease

Health By Matthew Herper and Helen Branswell

FDA advisory panel votes unanimously that Pfizer and Moderna shots be authorized for young children

Health By Akila Muthukumar

Popular drug may have new benefit in men with diabetes, but not women, study shows

Health By Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper

Tracking an FDA advisory panel meeting on Covid vaccines in young children

Health By Matthew Herper

FDA panel unanimously backs Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children ages 6 to 17

Health By Andrew Joseph

Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians

FDA advisory panel recommends Omicron-containing booster shots

Supreme Court rules that doctors need to knowingly misprescribe opioids for it to be a crime

FDA panel to advise on whether — and how — Covid vaccines should be updated

Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future

All Coverage

In Boston homes, potentially harmful compounds are leaking from stovetops

WHO: Monkeypox outbreak not yet a global public health emergency

Pfizer says its Omicron-containing boosters outperform current vaccine

HIPAA won’t protect you if prosecutors want your reproductive health records

Court rules Juul can temporarily keep selling e-cigarettes while it prepares challenge to FDA ban

The Biden administration wants to get tough on states’ abortion pill restrictions. It won’t be easy

Supreme Court decision suggests the legal right to contraception is also under threat

Covid-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in a year, study estimates

FDA orders Juul e-cigarettes off the market in the U.S.

To protect people with addiction from discrimination, the Justice Dept. turns to a long-overlooked tool: the ADA

These researchers study abortion in states likely to ban it. That will make their jobs even harder

Comparing the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines for young children

‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents

CDC recommends Pfizer, Moderna Covid vaccines for children under 5

FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers

A CDC study seeks to provide clues to seeming surge of hepatitis cases in kids

U.S. Covid test makers anticipate layoffs after government reallocates funds

Life expectancy for Native Americans has stagnated — even long before Covid

Girl’s case of lupus leads to new understanding of a perplexing disease

FDA advisory panel votes unanimously that Pfizer and Moderna shots be authorized for young children

Popular drug may have new benefit in men with diabetes, but not women, study shows

Tracking an FDA advisory panel meeting on Covid vaccines in young children

FDA panel unanimously backs Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children ages 6 to 17

Newest Omicron Covid-19 lineages gaining ground in United States

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