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Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds

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Dr. Ayana Jordan, an addiction psychiatrist who teaches at the N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine and was not involved in the new research,...
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In a Climate Trade-Off, Biden Backs Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Plan

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The White House on Wednesday endorsed a plan by Senator Joe Manchin III to speed the approval of some fossil fuel projects in...
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An Experiment Repeated 3,000 Times Finds Hints to Evolution’s Secrets

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In a lab in Atlanta, thousands of yeast cells fight for their lives every day. The ones that live another day grow fastest,...
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F.D.A. Advisers Say Benefits of Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Outweigh Risks

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A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control...
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Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial

Barbara Chase -
Five years ago, a small group of cancer scientists meeting at a restaurant in a deconsecrated church hospital in Mainz, Germany, drew up...
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Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome

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More than 20 years after scientists first released a draft sequence of the human genome, the book of life has been given a...
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F.D.A. Advisers Weigh Allowing First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill

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It was like a tale of two birth control pills.At a hearing Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should authorize...
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Ecuador Strikes a Landmark Deal to Save Nature, and Some Cash

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The NewsEcuador announced a record-setting deal on Tuesday designed to reduce its debt burden and free up hundreds of millions of dollars to...
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U.S. Loses Key Case on Rights to H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs

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A federal jury in Delaware on Tuesday found that the federal government did not have an ownership claim to lucrative drugs to prevent...
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When Should Women Get Regular Mammograms? At 40, U.S. Panel Now Says.

Barbara Chase -
Alarmed by an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among younger women and persistently high death rates among Black women in particular, health experts...
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