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Health By Matthew Herper

FDA scientists neutral on Moderna Covid-19 vaccine booster ahead of key meeting

FDA documents laid out the case for authorizing Moderna’s booster but also noted that data so far make it unclear that the dose is needed.

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Health By Helen Branswell

A primer on what we know about mixing and matching Covid vaccines

Health By Alex Hogan

Watch: Merck’s Covid pill could transform treatment. Here’s how it works

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Health By Helen Branswell

Comparing the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson

Aspirin Heart Disease

Health By Lindsey Tanner — Associated Press

Advice shifting on aspirin use for preventing heart attacks

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Autism Childbirth Hormone

Health By Lindsey Tanner — Associated Press

‘Sociability’ hormone oxytocin didn’t help kids with autism, study finds

Health By Erin Brodwin

STAT+ Conversation: Can tech improve health care’s value proposition?

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Health By Theresa Gaffney

Rates of depression and anxiety climbed across the globe in 2020, analysis finds

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky

Health By Helen Branswell and Gideon Gil

CDC director defends decision to overrule expert panel on Covid booster shots for health and other frontline workers

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Health By Isabella Cueto

In ‘Unequal Cities,’ authors aim to debunk the idea that genetics, rather than racism, causes health disparities

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Health By Maddie Bender

‘Reaching a detente’ with SARS-CoV-2: Helen Branswell on covering Covid-19, misinformation and more

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Health By Maddie Bender

Biden moves to ramp up at-home Covid-19 testing

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Health By Helen Branswell

In major decision, WHO recommends broad rollout of world’s first malaria vaccine

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Health By Andrew Joseph

The stages of pandemic emotion: from horror to hope to rage — and now, an anxious optimism

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

STAT+ Conversation: Making health care accountable

Dr. April Carson

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action

Nobel Medicine

Health By Elizabeth Cooney and Megan Molteni

Two scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for how we sense temperature and touch

Health By Evan Allen — Boston Globe

Prosecutors allege two individuals preyed on those searching for addiction recovery help

Merck

Health By Matthew Herper

Merck’s antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients, a possible game-changer for treatment

Vicarious Robot

Health Tech By Isabella Cueto

A new surgical robot is smaller, nimbler, and cheaper, its maker claims. But will it be better for patients?

Health By Ed Silverman

Virtual Event: The evolving landscape for biosimilars

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Health By Andrew Joseph

Side effect rates from a third Covid-19 vaccine dose similar to those after second shot, early data indicate

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur and Usha Lee McFarling

STAT+ Conversation: How medicine’s biggest journals are confronting racism

Health By Helen Branswell

With positive data on mRNA Covid vaccine, Sanofi sets its sights on other pathogens

Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital boosters

Matt's Take By Matthew Herper

The Biden administration wants scientific advisers. It just doesn’t like what they have to say

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Health By Helen Branswell

Advisory committee recommends wide swath of Americans be offered Covid-19 vaccine boosters

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Health By Usha Lee McFarling

Expert panel recommends against use of race in assessment of kidney function

SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA pharmacy

Health By Isabella Cueto

New research cautions about possible risks of acetaminophen use during pregnancy

A STAT Investigation By Usha Lee McFarling

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities