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Ivermectin Demand Surges Though It Doesn’t Work for Covid-19
For the past week, Dr. Gregory Yu, an emergency physician in San Antonio, has received the same daily requests from...
They Still Live in the Shadow of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes
Women at tech start-ups wrote to her thanking her for saying what they had been feeling, Ms. Esponnette said. Lola...
The Black Mortality Gap, and a Document Written in 1910
Black Americans die at higher rates than white Americans at nearly every age. In 2019, the most recent year with...
Extra Shots from J. & J. and Pfizer Give Immune Boost, Companies Report
As vaccine makers set their sights on boosters, new studies unveiled on Wednesday from Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer-BioNTech demonstrated...
Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care
But research increasingly shows how closely dental health is connected to overall health. Dental problems, and their accompanying inflammation and...
Risk of Hospitalization Doubles With Delta Variant, Study Finds
People who are infected with the highly contagious Delta variant are twice as likely to be hospitalized as those who...
In Britain, Young Children Don’t Wear Masks in School
From late spring into early summer, Britain’s elementary and secondary schools were open during an alarming wave of Delta infections....
How the Delta Variant Infiltrated an Elementary School Classroom
An unvaccinated elementary schoolteacher infected with the highly contagious Delta variant spread the virus to half of the students in...
Intelligence Review Yields No Firm Conclusion on Origins of Coronavirus
WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have not been able to determine if the coronavirus pandemic was the result of an...
At a Children’s Hospital, a Wave of Young Patients Struggling to Breathe
Seeing children in the rooms that she cleans suffer, she said, was “overwhelming.” Behind her, beeping screens monitoring the low...
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