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Health Helen Branswell

XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?

Health Helen Branswell

With attention to mpox fading, health officials fear infections will go undetected and unreported

Health Nicholas Florko

South Dakota plans major ramp-up of hepatitis C treatment in prison

Health Nicholas Florko

Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts

Health Helen Branswell

3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023

Health Helen Branswell

Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming

First Opinion Richard Marfuggi, Aparna Ahuja and Rick A. Bright

Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

Hundreds of incarcerated people are dying of hep C — even though we have a simple cure

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Health Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

Massachusetts detects troubling new strain of gonorrhea

Health Helen Branswell

HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson fails clinical trial

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Biotech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Moderna says RSV vaccine worked, setting stage for competition with GSK and Pfizer

Health Andrew Joseph

Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

Health Helen Branswell

Flu activity in the U.S. continues to decline after early surge

Health Jason Mast

Infectious disease board recommends hospitals stop screening asymptomatic patients for Covid-19

Health Tom Murphy — Associated Press

CVS, Walgreens limiting purchases of children’s drugs amid cold and flu season shortages

First Opinion Rhea Boyd, Bruce Lesley and Alexandra Quinn

Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids

Health Helen Branswell

Early flu season in U.S. may be peaking early, too

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

Getting hepatitis C treatment opens new doors for the incarcerated

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

For families, grieving an incarcerated person’s death adds complexity to an already painful process

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

Watch: With little more than a typewriter, an Idaho man overturns the entire state’s policy on hepatitis C treatment in prison

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

Despite federal disclosure rules, state prisons hide information on hepatitis C-related deaths

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

Prisons say they can’t afford to cure everyone with hepatitis C. But some are figuring out a way

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

Legal and medical experts say denying hepatitis C care is cruel and unusual punishment, but the courts are still catching up

A STAT Investigation Nicholas Florko

These 8 states are doing the worst job of treating hepatitis C in prisons

Health Brittany Trang

Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study

Politics Rachel Cohrs

Walensky says CDC needs more authority from Congress to collect public health data

Health Helen Branswell

Jynneos mpox vaccine provided strong protection against infection, new CDC data show

Health Andrew Joseph

Limits of ‘Fauci effect’: infectious disease applicants plummet, and hospitals are scrambling

First Opinion Sallie Permar and Robert J. Vinci

Pediatricians and parents on the brink: This is their March 2020

Health Helen Branswell

CDC launches initiative to test wastewater for polioviruses in some communities

Health Helen Branswell

With no exit strategy from ‘zero Covid’ policy, China could face tsunami in cases, experts fear

Health Helen Branswell

Experimental flu vaccine, developed using mRNA, seen as potential game changer

Health Andrew Joseph

U.K. analysis shows one dose of monkeypox vaccine yields strong protection