What to read before you go see that new documentary on Elizabeth Holmes
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View ArticleKenya reports second Ebola case
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View ArticleThe Nobel boys club (again)
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View ArticleHow big is Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak?
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View ArticleAs CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
A proposed redesign of the federal government’s annual health survey would result in significant undercounting of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, according to advocates for...
View ArticleTrump administration appeals ruling blocking limits on international student...
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View ArticleFederal judge rolls back landmark disability protections
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View ArticleSTAT+: The head of Kennedy’s new autism project has roots in Iraq War, Sesame...
If you want to understand the federal government’s new initiative to improve autism care and diagnosis, it’s helpful to understand its leader, Russell Shilling. Sitting in his Fairfax, Va., office,...
View ArticleOne of the most contagious diseases on the planet is having its worst U.S....
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View ArticleKennedy announces new effort to speed up autism diagnoses
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday a new effort to improve autism diagnoses, arguing that the current model is outdated, too time-intensive, and overreliant on professionals with...
View ArticlePurer fentanyl won’t solve the U.S. overdose death crisis, study says
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View ArticleOz says ‘AI-based avatars’ can help rural communities. Some leaders disagree
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View ArticleDisabled workers at greater risk of losing health insurance
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View ArticleAt a federal autism advisory committee meeting, members double down on...
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View ArticleVaccines take center stage at federal autism advisory committee
Vaccines took center stage at the federal autism advisory committee meeting Thursday, as committee members explicitly pointed to vaccines as a potential cause of autism, even though the link has been...
View ArticleScientists deploy Merck’s Ebola vaccine in DRC
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View ArticleSTAT+: What patients actually think about ‘minimally invasive’ brain implants
Scroll through the flashy websites of neurotechnology startups and a phrase repeats again and again: “minimally invasive.” “The term is fuzzy, problematic,” said Anna Wexler, a medical ethics and...
View ArticleSTAT+: Skylark Bio kicks off new gene therapy trial for deafness
Two years ago, scientists made history with a gene therapy that restored hearing for a small group of children who had been born deaf, allowing some of them to hear for the first time. Indistinct...
View ArticleA third clinic settles with DOJ over trans care
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View ArticleSTAT+: As Trump administration pushes court-ordered mental health care, a new...
In the last three decades, as involuntary outpatient treatment for people with serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia have expanded to almost every state, the evidence for these programs’...
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