Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctor’s office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15…
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Seeking Covid Pills, Poor Nations Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis
The antiviral pills, plentiful in the United States, are scarce overseas. Health groups and the White House want to expand access but face obstacles that…
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Activists are also pressing President Biden to take a more forceful leadership role in the response as he convenes world leaders for a Covid-19 summit…
View More Former Heads of State Call on U.S. to Commit $5 Billion for Global Covid AidHer Rash Wouldn’t Go Away, and the Itch Was Ruining Her Life
Nights were a particular torment, and nothing but steroids seemed to help. What could be causing this?Nights were a particular torment, and nothing but steroids…
View More Her Rash Wouldn’t Go Away, and the Itch Was Ruining Her LifeMedication Abortions Are Increasing: What They Are and Where Women Get Them
Most abortions overseas involve pills, and the method is used in about half of legal U.S. abortions. It also seems to be the future of…
View More Medication Abortions Are Increasing: What They Are and Where Women Get ThemSizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults
A new training tool helps to assess whether some seniors can make informed choices about their own care and well-being.A new training tool helps to…
View More Sizing Up the Decisions of Older AdultsA Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage Is Getting Worse
After Abbott Nutrition issued voluntary recalls of its popular baby formulas, retailers have limited purchases, leaving desperate parents searching for solutions.After Abbott Nutrition issued voluntary…
View More A Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage Is Getting WorseHundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.With inpatient psychiatric…
View More Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.Officials Warn of Fake Adderall Pills After Two College Students Die
Officials said the fake pills could contain fentanyl. Two Ohio State University students died this week in what the police said were apparent overdoses.Officials said…
View More Officials Warn of Fake Adderall Pills After Two College Students DieDr. Morton Mower, Inventor of Lifesaving Heart Device, Dies at 89
With a colleague, he created a miniaturized defibrillator that could be implanted inside patients suffering from potentially fatal arrhythmia.With a colleague, he created a miniaturized…
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