Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

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18.01.2025

RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout - The New York Times

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.

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18.01.2025

Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs - The New York Times

The government is expected to pay lower prices for Ozempic and Wegovy starting in 2027. The Trump administration will decide whether to expand coverage for millions of Americans.

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18.01.2025

When the Retirement Community Goes Bankrupt - The New York Times

It doesn’t happen often. But when it does, some residents risk losing everything.

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18.01.2025

Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘Healing Farms’ - The New York Times

The positions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines and drug companies are well known. His approach to addiction has been far less scrutinized.

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17.01.2025

Cancer’s New Face: Younger and Female - The New York Times

Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report.

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17.01.2025

Sick Prisoners in New York Were Granted Parole but Remain Behind Bars - The New York Times

Prisons across the country are struggling to find nursing home placements for sick prisoners after granting them parole. In New York, some inmates are suing for release.

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17.01.2025

UnitedHealth’s Revenues Rise, in First Earnings Report Since CEO’s Killing - The New York Times

But high medical costs contributed to results that disappointed Wall Street, and the company’s stock fell on the news that it had made less than analysts expected.

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16.01.2025

Insulin Prices Dropped. But Some Poor Patients Are Paying More. - The New York Times

A law that coaxed companies to lower the price of drugs came with a little-known consequence: smaller discounts for low-income health clinics.

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16.01.2025

FDA Bans Red Dye 3 in Foods, Linking It to Cancer in Rats - The New York Times

Consumer and food safety groups have long urged the agency to revoke the use of this dye and others. The F.D.A. says studies have shown that it causes cancer in rats, but not in humans.

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16.01.2025

FDA Moves Forward With Last-Minute Push to Cut Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes - The New York Times

In the final days of the Biden administration, the F.D.A. is moving ahead with a proposal to require companies to produce a less addictive product for traditional smokers.

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16.01.2025

Mom’s Gripes About Sister-in-Law Put Daughter in a Bind - The New York Times

Well’s new Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, helps a reader who is sick of being her mother’s dumping ground.

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16.01.2025

Ramaswamy Has a High-Profile Perch and a Raft of Potential Conflicts - The New York Times

Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk’s partner in an effort to cut government costs, could make decisions that ultimately make him and his investors richer.

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16.01.2025

Howard Buten, Autism Therapist, Novelist and Clown, Is Dead at 74 - The New York Times

By day, he helped run an autism center he opened in a suburb of Paris. In the evening, he delighted audiences as a clown named Buffo. In between, he wrote novels.

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15.01.2025

Moderate Drinking Raises Health Risks While Offering Few Benefits - The New York Times

A federal analysis that will shape the influential U.S. Dietary Guidelines questions alcohol’s overall benefits.

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15.01.2025

F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Content - The New York Times

The agency issued designs for front-of-package lists that food companies would be required to include.

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15.01.2025

New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I. - The New York Times

An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.

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15.01.2025

How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor - The New York Times

A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big bills.

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15.01.2025

Kate Middleton Is in Cancer Remission. It Doesn’t Always Mean the Illness Is Cured. - The New York Times

While the announcement is good news for the Princess of Wales, cancer experts describe the challenges of a life shadowed by an earlier diagnosis.

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14.01.2025

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past - The New York Times

Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.

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13.01.2025

At This Ballet Company, the Priority Is Dancers’ Mental Health - The New York Times

Azara Ballet in Florida is a place where performers can just be themselves.

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13.01.2025

Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr. - The New York Times

The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation.

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13.01.2025

How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence - The New York Times

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.

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13.01.2025

Even Adults May Soon Be Vulnerable to ‘Childhood’ Diseases - The New York Times

Outbreaks among the unvaccinated are a predictable consequence of falling immunization rates. But even vaccinated adults may be vulnerable to some illnesses.

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12.01.2025

Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution. - The New York Times

As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?

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12.01.2025

Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses - The New York Times

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.

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11.01.2025

Scientists May Be Able to Make Grapefruits Compatible With Medications They Currently Interfere With - The New York Times

Scientists have identified a gene that causes production of a substance in some citrus that interferes with many medications.

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11.01.2025

James Arthur Ray, 67, Self-Help Guide Whose Retreat Became Deadly, Dies - The New York Times

A rising star among New Age motivational speakers, he was brought down by a disaster during one of his retreats in Arizona, where three people died in a sweat lodge.

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10.01.2025

Peter Fenwick, Leading Expert on Near-Death Experiences, Dies at 89 - The New York Times

He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him, and he realized the phenomenon was real.

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10.01.2025

‘Approaching the Light’: Peter Fenwick and Stories of Near-Death Experiences - The New York Times

Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book “The Truth in the Light.” Here are some of them.

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10.01.2025

Richard M. Cohen, 76, News Producer Who Wrote of Health Challenge, Dies - The New York Times

When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.

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09.01.2025

Study Links High Fluoride Exposure to Lower I.Q. in Children - The New York Times

The results of a new federal analysis were drawn from studies conducted in other countries, where drinking water contains more fluoride than in the United States.

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09.01.2025

Defining Depersonalization Derealization Disorder - The New York Times

The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition.

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09.01.2025

Carole Wilbourn, Who Put Cats on the Couch, Dies at 84 - The New York Times

When cats bite or scratch, they’re trying to tell you something. Wilbourn, a cat therapist, was a pioneer in the art of listening to them.

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08.01.2025

Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes - The New York Times

Variant Bio, a small biotech company based in Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes.

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08.01.2025

Abortion Pills Prescribed by Pharmacists Are Newest Effort in Abortion Fight - The New York Times

Washington State’s program is the first, but other states are expected to try allowing pharmacists to prescribe the pills to counter growing efforts to curtail abortion access.

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07.01.2025

In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields - The New York Times

Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment.

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07.01.2025

First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana - The New York Times

The deceased was over 65 and had other medical conditions, state officials said.

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07.01.2025

Sugary Drinks Linked to Global Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease - The New York Times

A new study assesses the effects of sugar-laden beverages on global health, with higher rates of consumption found in Latin America and parts of Africa.

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07.01.2025

What We Know About HMPV, the Virus Spreading in China - The New York Times

While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, medical experts say. HMPV is common and decades old.

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Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization - The New York Times

RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout - The New York Times

Medicare to Negotiate Lower Prices for Weight-Loss Drugs - The New York Times

When the Retirement Community Goes Bankrupt - The New York Times

Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘Healing Farms’ - The New York Times

Cancer’s New Face: Younger and Female - The New York Times

Sick Prisoners in New York Were Granted Parole but Remain Behind Bars - The New York Times

UnitedHealth’s Revenues Rise, in First Earnings Report Since CEO’s Killing - The New York Times

Insulin Prices Dropped. But Some Poor Patients Are Paying More. - The New York Times

FDA Bans Red Dye 3 in Foods, Linking It to Cancer in Rats - The New York Times

FDA Moves Forward With Last-Minute Push to Cut Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes - The New York Times

Mom’s Gripes About Sister-in-Law Put Daughter in a Bind - The New York Times

Ramaswamy Has a High-Profile Perch and a Raft of Potential Conflicts - The New York Times

Howard Buten, Autism Therapist, Novelist and Clown, Is Dead at 74 - The New York Times

Moderate Drinking Raises Health Risks While Offering Few Benefits - The New York Times

F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Content - The New York Times

New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I. - The New York Times

How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor - The New York Times

Kate Middleton Is in Cancer Remission. It Doesn’t Always Mean the Illness Is Cured. - The New York Times

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past - The New York Times

At This Ballet Company, the Priority Is Dancers’ Mental Health - The New York Times

Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr. - The New York Times

How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence - The New York Times

Even Adults May Soon Be Vulnerable to ‘Childhood’ Diseases - The New York Times

Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution. - The New York Times

Chronic Pain: Five Things We Know About Causes, Treatments and Diagnoses - The New York Times

Scientists May Be Able to Make Grapefruits Compatible With Medications They Currently Interfere With - The New York Times

James Arthur Ray, 67, Self-Help Guide Whose Retreat Became Deadly, Dies - The New York Times

Peter Fenwick, Leading Expert on Near-Death Experiences, Dies at 89 - The New York Times

‘Approaching the Light’: Peter Fenwick and Stories of Near-Death Experiences - The New York Times

Richard M. Cohen, 76, News Producer Who Wrote of Health Challenge, Dies - The New York Times

Study Links High Fluoride Exposure to Lower I.Q. in Children - The New York Times

Defining Depersonalization Derealization Disorder - The New York Times

Carole Wilbourn, Who Put Cats on the Couch, Dies at 84 - The New York Times

Drug Company to Share Revenues With Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes - The New York Times

Abortion Pills Prescribed by Pharmacists Are Newest Effort in Abortion Fight - The New York Times

In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields - The New York Times

First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana - The New York Times

Sugary Drinks Linked to Global Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease - The New York Times

What We Know About HMPV, the Virus Spreading in China - The New York Times

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