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Breaking News Mario Aguilar

Apple scores victory in dispute over heart monitoring technologies in Apple Watch

Business Tara Bannow and Olivia Goldhill

Psychedelic therapy is moving to the next frontier: workplace perk

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First Opinion Sallie Permar and Robert J. Vinci

Pediatricians and parents on the brink: This is their March 2020

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Health Lev Facher

Congress has its sights set too low on addiction, advocates charge

First Opinion Scott Gottlieb and Mark B. McClellan

Congress needs to update FDA’s ability to regulate diagnostic tests, cosmetics

Insurance Bob Herman

The health insurer will see you now: How UnitedHealth is keeping more profits, as your doctor

Biotech Matthew Herper and Allison DeAngelis

‘This is not a cure’: Consensus begins to emerge on new Alzheimer’s drug

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Health Andrew Joseph

In Philadelphia, ‘tranq’ is leaving drug users with horrific wounds. Other communities are bracing for the same

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Business Tara Bannow

Medical malpractice lawsuits, delayed by the pandemic, are hitting hospitals harder than expected

First Opinion Greg Yap and Derek Xiao

Carefully crafted digital approaches can improve youths’ mental health care

Biotech Matthew Herper

Karuna Therapeutics replaces its CEO, suggesting takeover unlikely soon

Health Matthew Herper

Moderna data suggest new Covid booster is more effective against Omicron variants

Health Brittany Trang

Why doesn’t the U.S. have at-home flu tests?

In the Lab Megan Molteni

New concerns about a paper co-authored by Stanford president prompt journal to take a ‘closer look’

Health Tech Casey Ross

Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally

First Opinion Bill Frist and Dariush Mozaffarian

Congress: Close the gap between funding for nutrition research and the toll diet-related disease takes on Americans

First Opinion Steve Cohen

Replace the failure of Medicare Advantage with ‘Medicare Part F’

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

A year after petition, NIH will finally review request to lower cancer drug’s cost by sidestepping patents

Health Elizabeth Preston

Why you get paid to donate plasma but not blood