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Health By Elizabeth Preston

Negative descriptors are more likely to appear in health records of Black patients, study finds

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Analysis of JAMA and NEJM articles finds most authors failed to disclose conflicts

Health By Andrew Joseph

New data show those who recovered from Covid-19 were less likely than vaccinated to get infected during Delta wave

Health By Rachel Cohrs

Can mailing free Covid-19 tests turn Biden’s pandemic response around?

staffing

First Opinion By Dan Michelson

Covid-19 is no longer the biggest issue facing hospitals. Staffing is

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Pharmalittle: Disease ‘reversal’ startup launches with $3 billion and biotech vets; network distributed fake Gilead HIV meds

Sen. Wyden

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Senate Finance chair investigates Bristol Myers over an allegedly abusive overseas tax shelter

Blue RNA strand

Biotech By Adam Feuerstein

A new RNA-based drug startup launches with Rutgers science and money connections

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Toddlers screen time

Health By Megan Thielking

Pediatricians relax guidelines on screen time for kids to give more flexibility

Birth Expectancy

Health By Megan Thielking

More US women plan on having kids than a decade ago

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Chemotherapy

Health By Associated Press

Brain cancer now the leading childhood cancer killer

Ear infection

In the Lab By Melissa Bailey

An antibiotic gel could treat kids’ ear infections with one dose

Clinical trial meds

The Watchdogs By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

Many clinical trials’ findings never get published. Here’s why that’s bad

Marijuana candy

Health By Lindzi Wessel

Mass marijuana overdose in California is latest in worrisome trend of children poisoned

Youth hockey

Health By Associated Press

Nearly 2 million concussions each year in kids’ sports, play

Medical Comic Books

Business By Rebecca Robbins

Comic books. Lesson plans. How drug companies target kids

X-Ray

Health By Megan Thielking

All the weird things kids have swallowed, in one hospital’s collection

Boston Children's -- education

Health By Melissa Bailey

Students in pajamas and teachers in masks: What ‘school’ looks like for hospitalized kids

Children Cancer

First Opinion By David A. Williams

Children’s cancer research is often ignored. Make it a ‘moonshot’ priority

Child fever

Quick Take By Megan Thielking

A doctor’s wisdom, now emanating from your Amazon Echo

Baby

Gut Check By Sharon Begley

Does screening children for developmental delays prevent learning problems?

CDC Autism

Health By Megan Thielking

Is the dramatic rise in autism tapering off?

Sesame Zika

Health By Andrew Joseph

Elmo and ‘Sesame Street’ get serious about Zika

Intravenous drips childhood cancer

Lab Chat By Bob Tedeschi

How poverty might hurt kids with cancer

Kidney stone

Quick Take By Megan Thielking

Kidney stones are on the rise

Barack Obama, Francis Collins

Politics By Sheila Kaplan

The NIH, in pursuit of precision medicine, tries to avoid ghosts of its past

Health By Leah Samuel

Despite warnings, a rise in infant deaths from crib bumpers