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Second Maryland Man to Receive an Altered Pig’s Heart Has Died

Panel Says That Innovative Sickle Cell Cure Is Safe Enough for Patients

F.D.A. Experts Will Vote on a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease

Hearing Aids Are More Affordable, and Perhaps More Needed, Than Ever

Doctors Wrestle With A.I. in Patient Care, Citing Lax Oversight

How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients

CUNY Halts Investigation of Alzheimer’s Researcher

Few Americans Have Gotten Covid Shots, C.D.C. Finds

Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says.

What to Know About Dengue Fever as Cases Spread to New Places

Covid Shots May Slightly Raise Stroke Risk in the Oldest Recipients

Ozempic and Wegovy Don’t Cost What You Think They Do

In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared

To Combat the Opioid Epidemic, Cities Ponder Facilities for Drug Use

David Shaffer, Medical ‘Detective’ in Suicide of Youths, Dies at 87

F.D.A. Plans to Ban Hair Straighteners With Formaldehyde

Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid

Harvard Cozies Up to #MentalHealth TikTok

Wearables Track Parkinson’s Better Than Human Observation, Study Finds

Scientists Investigating Alzheimer’s Drug Faulted in Leaked Report

California’s Ban on Red Food Dye Puts F.D.A.’s Food Policies on the Spot

F.D.A. Moves to Ban Sales of Vuse Menthol Vapes

Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Health Care Workers

Hoosen Coovadia, 83, Medical Force in South Africa’s H.I.V. Fight, Dies

F.D.A. Issues Warning Over Misuse of Ketamine

New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table

Illicit E-Cigarettes Flood Stores as F.D.A. Struggles to Combat Imports

Skeletons of 1918 Flu Victims Reveal Clues About Who Was Likely to Die

Teen Depression Rose Sharply During the Pandemic, but Treatment Didn’t Follow

Feeling Terrible After Your Covid Shot? Then It’s Probably Working.

Kaiser Permanente Workers Near End of Strike Without a Deal

Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have Few Protections

Gun Deaths Rising Sharply Among Children, Study Finds

What the Kaiser Permanente Strike Means for Patients

Kaiser Permanente Health Care Workers Begin Strike

A New Way to Prevent S.T.I.s: A Pill After Sex

Kaiser Permanente Workers Poised to Strike

Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers