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How Bad Is China’s Covid Outbreak? It’s a Scientific Guessing Game.

Congressional Inquiry into Alzheimer’s Drug Faults Its Maker and F.D.A.

Parents Often Bring Children to Psychiatric E.R.s to Subdue Them, Study Finds

Epidemics That Weren’t: How Countries Shut Down Recent Outbreaks

The I.C.U. Nurse: A Symbol of Endurance

The F.D.A. Now Says It Plainly: Morning-After Pills Are Not Abortion Pills

This Party Season, You Don’t Have to R.S.V.P., Just Test

‘Major Trustee, Please Prioritize’: How NYU’s E.R. Favors the Rich

‘Tripledemic’ Rages On: Fever-Filled Weeks Lie Ahead

As Covid Deaths Climb, Even Seniors Skip the Latest Booster

Homicides of Children Soared in the Pandemic’s First Year

They Created a Drug for Susannah. What About Millions of Other Patients?

Why Many Older Women Are Getting Pap Tests They Don’t Need

U.S. Health Officials Seek New Curbs on Private Medicare Advantage Plans

New Covid Booster Shots Cut Risk of Hospitalization by Half, C.D.C. Reports

Opposition to School Vaccine Mandates Has Grown Significantly, Study Finds

The Coronavirus May Spread From Corpses, Scientists Report

E.R. Doctors Misdiagnose Patients With Unusual Symptoms

Grant Wahl Died of a Burst Blood Vessel, His Family Says

Long Covid Has Played Role in More Than 3,500 Deaths in U.S., C.D.C. Says

When Black Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color

Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow

Behind New York City’s Shift on Mental Health, a Solitary Quest

Vaping Settlement by Juul Is Said to Total $1.7 Billion

A Rural Hospital’s Excruciating Choice: $3.2 Million a Year or Inpatient Care?

Key Partner in Covax Will End Support for Middle-Income Nations

A Plea From Experts to Pregnant Women: Get Vaccinated Against Covid

Lasik Patients Should Be Warned of Complications, F.D.A. Draft Says

Global Partners May End Broad Covid Vaccination Effort in Developing Countries

Juul Agrees to Settle Thousands of Vaping Lawsuits

F.D.A. Report Faults Agency’s Food Unit for Leaderless Dysfunction

Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors?

A Promising Trial Targets a Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s

How Has the Rising Cost of Long-Term Health Care Affected You?

Dog Flu Is Back, Too

As Officials Ease Restrictions, China Faces New Pandemic Risks

Elon Musk Hopes to Test a Brain Implant in Humans Next Year

F.D.A. Considering New Approach to Blood Donation by Gay and Bisexual Men

Deaths From Substance Abuse Rose Sharply Among Older Americans in 2020

Alzheimer’s Drug May Benefit Some Patients, New Data Shows

One Step Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine?

Can This Man Stop Lying?

Organ Donations Rise Around Motorcycle Rallies

Flu and R.S.V. Hit the Holidays, Heightening Demand for Antibiotics and Antivirals

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Barn? To Sign Up for the Scientific Study.

The Monkeypox Cases That Might Have Been Missed

Brave Little Worriers

What if You Could Go to the Hospital … at Home?

F.D.A. Approves a Drug That Can Delay Type 1 Diabetes

The End of Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’