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Howard Hiatt, 98, Dies; Steered Public Health Toward Greater Accountability

Howard H. Hiatt, a physician, scientist and academic who reshaped the field of public health, steering it away from the narrow study of...

With Cyberattack Fix Weeks Away, Health Providers Slam United

More than two weeks after a cyberattack, financially strapped doctors, hospitals and medical providers on Friday sharply criticized UnitedHealth Group’s latest estimate that...

Pentagon Review Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up

In the 1960s, secret test flights of advanced government spy planes generated U.F.O. sightings. More recently, government and commercial drones, new kinds of...

A.L.S. Drug Relyvrio Fails Clinical Trial and May Be Withdrawn From the Market

One of the few treatments the Food and Drug Administration has approved for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has failed a large clinical trial, and...

F.D.A. Delays Action on Closely Watched Alzheimer’s Drug

The Food and Drug Administration has decided to delay action on a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab, which the agency was widely expected...

Estas aves son símbolos nacionales pero cada vez hay menos en sus países

Los trópicos americanos están bendecidos como ninguna otra región en cuanto a sus aves. El 36 por ciento de las 11.000 especies de...

The Night Sky Will Soon Get ‘a New Star.’ Here’s How to See It.

If you keep a close eye on the night sky in the weeks and months ahead, you may spot something new. It will...

These Birds Are National Symbols but Getting Harder to See

The American tropics are uniquely blessed with birds. Thirty-six percent of the world’s 11,000 bird species live in the region south of the...

Good News and Bad News for Astronomers’ Biggest Dream

The United States should commit $1.6 billion to building an “extremely large telescope” that would vault American astronomy into a new era, according...

Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide

More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an...

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