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U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Soared 40% During the Pandemic

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Why It's So Hard to Have Your Fertility Tested

Many couples don't realize they have infertility until they try to get pregnant. But getting fertility testing before then can be tough.

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Pharmacies Are Limiting Sales of Kids' Pain and Fever Medicine

CVS and Walgreens are limiting purchases of children’s pain-relief medicines amid constrained supplies and high demand.

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Experts Fear a Shortage of Forensic Pathologists Will Leave Deaths Unexplained

Increasing drug overdose deaths, rising violent crime, and the COVID-19 pandemic have all demanded more from this small specialty workforce.

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These medications and lifestyle fixes can help bring relief.

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Long-Lasting Birth Control Is Already Hard to Get. Advocates Worry It May Only Get Worse

Due to insurance, physician shortages, and unequal access to care

By Jamie Ducharme

Why Acupuncture Is Going Mainstream in Medicine

Here's what research says about the complementary therapy

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What It's Like Living With Aphasia—and How to Support a Loved One With the Condition

Bruce Willis was diagnosed with the condition

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Pfizer Halts Clinical Trials in Russia But Will Continue to Supply Medicine

Pfizer will donate all profits from its Russian subsidiary to Ukraine relief causes

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MRNA's Next Chapter Has Nothing to Do With COVID Vaccines

It’s safe to say that before the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, most people hadn’t thought about messenger RNA, or mRNA, since high school science class—if ever. The molecule plays a pivotal...

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How AI Can Help Pick Depression Treatments

The use of AI in psychiatry is expanding quickly

By Mandy Oaklander

AI Can Now Make Medical Predictions From Raw Data. But Can Deep Learning Be Trusted?

The stakes sit particularly high in medicine, where lives are on the line

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Kidney Swaps Are Revolutionizing a Broken Organ-Donation System in the U.S.

2017 ended as a banner year for my family, but things didn’t look great at the start. A death sentence met us in a boxing ring, and we had to school ourselves on fighting to...

By Lisa Emmott

Heart Failure Is Killing More Americans. Can the Health Care System Keep Up?

An aging population means more heart problems

By Jamie Ducharme

Harassment and Discrimination Are Leading to Burnout Among Female Doctors, Study Says

Mistreatment is widespread for female doctors

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Human Health Is in the Hands of Bacteria

In the beginning, there were single-cell bacteria. They were the only life on earth for billions of years, then larger cells evolved, then multicellular organisms, and then plants and animals. But the bacteria never went...

By Martin J. Blaser

Why It's Time to Take Electrified Medicine Seriously

When the disease plaguing her digestive system was at its worst, Kelly Owens once had to rush to the bathroom 17 separate times in the course of a few hours. By the time she was...

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