Category: Health
With Harsh Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Law, Uganda Risks a Health Crisis
For decades, Uganda’s campaign against H.I.V. was exemplary, slashing the country’s death rate by nearly 90 percent from 1990 to 2019. Now a sweeping law…
Six Reasons Drug Prices Are So High in the U.S.
Florida’s plan to save money by importing medications from Canada, authorized this month by the Food and Drug Administration, has renewed attention on the cost…
An Ultrasound Experiment Tackles a Giant Problem in Brain Medicine
There is a problem with the recently approved Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm. It can remove some of the amyloid that forms brain plaques that are hallmarks…
Quaker Oats Recalls More Products Over Potential Salmonella Contamination
The Quaker Oats Company added more products this week to a recall that started last month over possible salmonella contamination, raising the total number of…
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the…
Women With Depression During or After Pregnancy Face Greater Suicide Risk, Even Years Later
What the research shows A research team analyzed records of nearly a million women in Sweden’s national medical registries from 2001 through 2017, comparing 86,551…
Paxlovid Cuts Covid Death Risk. But Those Who Need It Are Not Taking It.
As Covid rises again, killing about 1,500 Americans each week, medical researchers are trying to understand why so few people are taking Paxlovid, a medicine…
The Income Gap Jeopardizing Retirement for Millions
Monique Louvigny, an event coordinator in the San Francisco Bay Area, economizes where she can. She drives a 10-year-old Prius, brings a thermos of coffee…
F.D.A. to Issue First Approval for Mass Drug Imports to States from Canada
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed Florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the…
Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines
Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can…