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Mpox Often Leads To Severe Illness Even Death In People With Advanced H I V

Mpox Often Leads to Severe Illness, Even Death, in People With Advanced H.I.V.

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The death rate among these patients is about 15 percent, researchers reported. The virus should be added to the list of opportunistic infections seen in patients with advanced H.I.V., scientists said. In people with advanced H.I.V. disease, the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — often causes severe illness, with a death rate of …

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Paul Berg Nobel Winning Pioneer Of Genetic Engineering Is Dead At 96

Paul Berg, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Genetic Engineering, Is Dead at 96

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In 1971, he transferred material from one organism to another, creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. He later helped lead a historic effort to write protocols for genetic research. Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died …

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Paul Berg Nobel Winning Pioneer Of Genetic Engineering Is Dead At 96

Paul Berg, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Genetic Engineering, Is Dead at 96

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In 1971, he transferred material from one organism to another, creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. He later helped lead a historic effort to write protocols for genetic research. Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died …

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Nurses Are Burned Out Can Hospitals Change In Time To Keep Them

Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

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The pandemic has pushed already stressed nurses away from a demanding field. Does the job need to be rethought? Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting. One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center …

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Nurses Are Burned Out Can Hospitals Change In Time To Keep Them

Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

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The pandemic has pushed already stressed nurses away from a demanding field. Does the job need to be rethought? Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting. One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center …

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Nurses Are Burned Out Can Hospitals Change In Time To Keep Them

Nurses Are Burned Out. Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

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The pandemic has pushed already stressed nurses away from a demanding field. Does the job need to be rethought? Calling It Quits is a series about the current culture of quitting. One morning, in fall 2020, Francesca Camacho drove away from her 12-hour night shift as a critical care nurse at Rush University Medical Center …

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Fettermans Disclosure Of Depression Signals New Openness On Mental Health

Fetterman’s Disclosure of Depression Signals New Openness on Mental Health

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The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania is the latest public figure to disclose his mental health struggles, an indication of growing acceptance, though some stigma remains. Lynn Rivers, a Democrat from Michigan, opened up about her diagnosis with bipolar disorder during a radio call-in show when she first ran for Congress. Her opponents had been hinting …

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Margaret Heagarty Champion For Childrens Health In Harlem Dies At 88

Margaret Heagarty, Champion for Children’s Health in Harlem, Dies at 88

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The first white woman to head the pediatrics unit at Harlem Hospital, she was challenged by the epidemics of crack cocaine and H.I.V. Dr. Margaret Heagarty was familiar enough with poverty and disease when she went to work in Harlem in 1978. She had grown up in the hardscrabble coal fields of West Virginia, where …

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Spain Allows Legal Gender Change Without A Medical Evaluation

Spain Allows Legal Gender Change Without a Medical Evaluation

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A new law will allow people 16 and older to change their registered gender without undergoing psychological and medical evaluations to show gender dysphoria. The Spanish government on Thursday approved a law allowing people 16 and older to change their legally registered gender without undergoing psychological and medical evaluations to show gender dysphoria, becoming one …

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According To Medical Guidelines Your Doctor Needs A 27 Hour Workday

According to Medical Guidelines, Your Doctor Needs a 27-Hour Workday

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Some doctors say that however reasonable guidelines may seem, their cumulative burden causes “constant frustration” to medical practice. The intent is admirable: Give doctors guidelines so they can be sure to cover what needs to be discussed with patients and help select options. Let’s talk about your diet and any problems you might have sleeping. …

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According To Medical Guidelines Your Doctor Needs A 27 Hour Workday

According to Medical Guidelines, Your Doctor Needs a 27-Hour Workday

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Some doctors say that however reasonable guidelines may seem, their cumulative burden causes “constant frustration” to medical practice. The intent is admirable: Give doctors guidelines so they can be sure to cover what needs to be discussed with patients and help select options. Let’s talk about your diet and any problems you might have sleeping. …

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Kizzmekia Corbett Unlocked The Science Of The Covid Vaccine

Kizzmekia Corbett Unlocked the Science of the Covid Vaccine

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“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. Kizzmekia Corbett had gone home to North Carolina for the holidays in 2019 when the headlines began to trickle in: A strange, pneumonialike illness was making dozens of people sick in China. By the first week of January 2020, the number of …

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Why Mississippi A Covid Hot Spot Left Millions In Pandemic Aid Unspent

Why Mississippi, a Covid Hot Spot, Left Millions in Pandemic Aid Unspent

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JACKSON, Miss. — When the coronavirus first scythed through the nation in early 2020, few places needed help fighting it more than Scott County, Miss., a rural patch of chicken processing plants and pine forests an hour east of the state capital, Jackson. The poverty rate for the county’s 28,000 residents was far above the …

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Following A Two Year Decline Suicide Rates Rose Again In 2021

Following a Two-Year Decline, Suicide Rates Rose Again in 2021

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Suicide increased among younger Black, Hispanic and Native American people, and declined among whites and older people, the C.D.C. reported. A two-year decline in yearly suicides ended in 2021, as suicide rates rose among younger Americans and people of color, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For decades, …

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Workers Fighting Americas Overdose Crisis Are Hanging By A Thread

Workers Fighting America’s Overdose Crisis Are ‘Hanging by a Thread’

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President Biden has endorsed “harm reduction,” which aims to cut down on overdoses by encouraging safer drug use. But the organizations carrying out that strategy are severely underfunded. OSCEOLA, Iowa — So many of Deborah Krauss’s friends and neighbors have died of drug overdoses during the pandemic that she said she felt as if she …

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N I H Leader Rebuts Covid Lab Leak Theory At House Hearing

N.I.H. Leader Rebuts Covid Lab Leak Theory at House Hearing

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Now in the majority, House Republicans are eager to scrutinize the Biden administration’s Covid policies and the origins of the virus, as a hearing on Wednesday demonstrated. WASHINGTON — The acting director of the National Institutes of Health pushed back on Wednesday against Republicans’ assertions that a lab leak stemming from taxpayer-funded research may have …

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Bird Flu Outbreak Puts Mink Farms Back In The Spotlight

Bird Flu Outbreak Puts Mink Farms Back in the Spotlight

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A new variant of avian influenza appears capable of spreading among mammals, highlighting the need for more proactive surveillance, experts said. Early last October, the mink on a fur farm in Spain suddenly began to fall ill. They stopped eating and began salivating excessively. They became clumsy, started to experience tremors and developed bloody snouts. …

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Charles Silverstein 87 Dies Helped Destigmatize

Charles Silverstein, 87, Dies; Helped Destigmatize Homosexuality

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He was at the forefront in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to reassess its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. In February 1973, when it was his turn to speak before an American Psychiatric Association panel on why it should stop classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder, Charles Silverstein chose an unexpected tool for …

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Frequent Blood Pressure Monitoring Is Needed Throughout Pregnancy

Frequent Blood Pressure Monitoring Is Needed Throughout Pregnancy

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force warned of a rise in hypertensive disorders among pregnant women, particularly women of color. Health care providers must check pregnant patients’ blood pressure regularly, starting early on and continuing throughout pregnancy, according to new draft recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The task force issued the draft …

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Her Foot Looked Normal What Was Causing The Excruciating Pain

Her Foot Looked Normal. What Was Causing the Excruciating Pain?

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A few weeks after she twisted her ankle, the girl’s foot kept getting worse. Her hand movements cued the doctor to a mysterious disease. The 9-year-old girl was strangely quiet throughout the meal. It was so uncharacteristic that in retrospect her father wasn’t sure why he didn’t notice. But he didn’t — until she started …

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Her Foot Looked Normal What Was Causing The Excruciating Pain

Her Foot Looked Normal. What Was Causing the Excruciating Pain?

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A few weeks after she twisted her ankle, the girl’s foot kept getting worse. Her hand movements cued the doctor to a mysterious disease. The 9-year-old girl was strangely quiet throughout the meal. It was so uncharacteristic that in retrospect her father wasn’t sure why he didn’t notice. But he didn’t — until she started …

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Her Foot Looked Normal What Was Causing The Excruciating Pain

Her Foot Looked Normal. What Was Causing the Excruciating Pain?

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A few weeks after she twisted her ankle, the girl’s foot kept getting worse. Her hand movements cued the doctor to a mysterious disease. The 9-year-old girl was strangely quiet throughout the meal. It was so uncharacteristic that in retrospect her father wasn’t sure why he didn’t notice. But he didn’t — until she started …

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Sandwiches and Fruit Cups Sold on Amtrak Are Recalled Over Listeria Risk

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More than 400 food products from Fresh Ideation Food Group were recalled, some of which were sold on Amtrak trains and in vending machines last month. A Baltimore-based company has recalled more than 400 food items sold in Amtrak trains, vending machines and shops across the Eastern Seaboard because of potential listeria contamination, the federal …

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A Patient Declared Dead Is Found In A Body Bag Gasping For Air

A Patient Declared Dead Is Found in a Body Bag Gasping for Air

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A 66-year-old woman was taken to a funeral home, where workers discovered her chest moving, a report said. An Alzheimer’s care center in Iowa that declared her dead was fined $10,000. An Alzheimer’s care center in Iowa was fined $10,000 after mistakenly declaring a patient dead, according to a report from the state’s Health Department. …

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Eye Drops Are Recalled After Being Linked To Vision Loss And 1 Death

Eye Drops Are Recalled After Being Linked to Vision Loss and 1 Death

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The maker of EzriCare Artificial Tears said it was recalling the eye drops after U.S. health authorities linked the product to a drug-resistant bacteria strain. The manufacturer of a brand of over-the-counter eye drops said that it was recalling the product, EzriCare Artificial Tears, after it was linked to a drug-resistant bacteria strain that has …

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Eye Drops Are Recalled After Being Linked To Vision Loss And 1 Death

Eye Drops Are Recalled After Being Linked to Vision Loss and 1 Death

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The maker of EzriCare Artificial Tears said it was recalling the eye drops after U.S. health authorities linked the product to a drug-resistant bacteria strain. The manufacturer of a brand of over-the-counter eye drops said that it was recalling the product, EzriCare Artificial Tears, after it was linked to a drug-resistant bacteria strain that has …

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Goodrx Leaked User Health Data To Facebook And Google F T C Says

GoodRx Leaked User Health Data to Facebook and Google, F.T.C. Says

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The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users’ illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint. Millions of Americans have used GoodRx, a drug discount app, to search for lower prices on prescriptions like antidepressants, H.I.V. medications and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases at their local drugstores. But U.S. …

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To Prevent Cancer More Women Should Consider Removing Fallopian Tubes Experts Say

To Prevent Cancer, More Women Should Consider Removing Fallopian Tubes, Experts Say

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A top research group is urging even women without genetic risks to have their fallopian tubes removed under certain circumstances. There is no reliable screening test for ovarian cancer, so doctors urge women at high genetic risk for the disease to have their ovaries and fallopian tubes removed once they are done having children, usually …

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