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Public Health
Altimmune weight loss drug minimized muscle mass loss in trial
Daniel Grill | Tetra Images | Getty Images Altimmune on Wednesday said its experimental drug helped patients shed weight but…
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IDSA issues updated diagnostic guidelines for COVID-19
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Public Health
Journalists Dig Into Measles, Abortion Access, and Medicaid Expansion
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed the 2024 U.S. measles outbreak on WAMU’s…
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Infectious Disease
Tests can confuse recent MMR vaccination as measles infection, report advises
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Public Health
Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic can be made for less than $5 a month: study
A box of Ozempic and contents sit on a table in Dudley, North Tyneside, Britain, October 31, 2023. Lee Smith…
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Infectious Disease
Moderna announces positive interim results for next-generation COVID-19 vaccine
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Neurological
Autism Spectrum Tests for Children and Adults: A Nurse Practitioner Explains
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has steadily risen over the years. According to the Centers for Disease Control…
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Public Health
Your Doctor or Your Insurer? Little-Known Rules May Ease the Choice in Medicare Advantage
Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that…
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Infectious Disease
CDC data show TB case counts increased in US since COVID-19 pandemic
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Public Health
A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox
Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning…
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