President Biden has selected Dr. Renee Wegrzyn to lead the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which is aimed at driving biomedical innovation.Read More
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Store Shelves Are No Longer Bare, but Baby Formula Remains in Short Supply
While the situation has improved since mid-July, many families are still scrambling to find popular brands that remain out of stock.Read More
View More Store Shelves Are No Longer Bare, but Baby Formula Remains in Short SupplyHow Family and Friends Helped Get Me Through the Pandemic
As Covid raged, many Americans hunkered down with family members and relied on friends — and some came away with deepened relationships. Here are a…
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Is Diet Soda Really That Bad For You?
A regular diet soda habit can affect your weight, heart, gut, bones and even your brain. Here’s how.Read More
View More Is Diet Soda Really That Bad For You?Monkeypox Shots, Treatments and Tests Are Unavailable in Much of the World
High-income countries snapped up vaccines when the disease hit them, leaving none for countries that have battled the virus for years, in an echo of…
View More Monkeypox Shots, Treatments and Tests Are Unavailable in Much of the WorldRise in Deaths Spurs Effort to Raise Alcohol Taxes
Alcohol taxes have been stagnant for years. But after the pandemic sent alcohol-related deaths soaring, activists in Oregon said higher taxes could save lives.Read More
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I’m A Therapist Working With Clients Who Self-Harm. Then I Started Cutting Myself.
“With each incident, I became less shocked at what I had done to myself, and therefore willing to use tools increasingly likely to cause injury…
View More I’m A Therapist Working With Clients Who Self-Harm. Then I Started Cutting Myself.Marc Lewitinn, 76, Covid Patient, Dies After 850 Days on a Ventilator
While no definitive statistics exist, doctors say he was likely the longest-surviving intubated Covid patient.Read More
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Over 10.5 Million Kids Were Orphaned Or Lost A Caregiver Due To COVID-19: Study
The new report examining the pandemic’s global pediatric impact warns that “little is being done to care for children left behind.”Read More
View More Over 10.5 Million Kids Were Orphaned Or Lost A Caregiver Due To COVID-19: StudySheila Tobias, Who Defined ‘Math Anxiety,’ Dies at 86
Feeling jittery about math — and altogether avoiding it — “is a serious handicap” that often affected women, she wrote in Ms. magazine in 1976,…
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