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Cue Health layoffs, HIPAA post-Roe, and AI’s race problem

By Katie Palmer and Casey Ross

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

By Katherine Gilyard

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Pharmalittle: Retailers ration contraceptive pills as demand spikes; Supreme Court rules doctors must knowingly misprescribe opioids to be convicted

By Ed Silverman

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FDA advisory panel recommends Omicron-containing booster shots

By Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper

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In Boston homes, potentially harmful compounds are leaking from stovetops

By Edward Chen

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The next epidemic may be here. The U.S. isn’t ready for it

By David C. Harvey

Health Tech

‘It’s not going to work’: Keeping race out of machine learning isn’t enough to avoid bias

By Katie Palmer

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CRISPR debuted 10 years ago, in a paper hardly anyone noticed. Jennifer Doudna reflects on the DNA scissors’ first decade

By Megan Molteni

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What we know — and what we may never know — about why the FDA banned Juul

By Nicholas Florko

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Cognito Therapeutics raises $50 million for Alzheimer’s treatment tech

By Mario Aguilar

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Pharma largely failed to follow human rights principles with its Covid-19 vaccines and drugs

By Ed Silverman

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

By Andrew Joseph

Health

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

By Helen Branswell

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Pharmalittle: Abortion pills will be at center of legal battles; Gilead reaches $33 million settlement over patient assistance programs

By Ed Silverman

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A ‘colossal financial fraud’: Gilead to get $33 million from a clinic for exploiting its HIV patient assistance program

By Ed Silverman

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First Opinion

Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments

By Cliff A. Megerian and Peter Pronovost

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Looking for ‘black swan’ outbreaks can prepare for future pandemics

By Nileena Velappan

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Listen: Vertus Hardiman and the medical tragedies that must not be forgotten

By Nicholas St. Fleur

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

By Katie Palmer

First Opinion

A major problem for minors: post-Roe access to abortion

By Tracey Wilkinson, Julie Maslowsky and Laura Lindberg

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Arthur Ashe and AIDS: Did the public have the right to know his diagnosis?

By Barron H. Lerner

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WHO: Monkeypox outbreak not yet a global public health emergency

By Andrew Joseph

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Pfizer says its Omicron-containing boosters outperform current vaccine

By Matthew Herper

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

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

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

By Nicholas Florko

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

By Nicholas Florko

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

By Olivia Goldhill

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion

By Mark Sherman — Associated Press

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Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

By Ed Silverman