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The MV Hondius, the cruise ship that has garnered global attention because of an apparent outbreak of person-to-person spread hantavirus infections, is on the move. At the request of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. official responsible for public health on cruise ships is stepping down, according to an internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcement obtained by STAT. The retirement

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Eugene Braunwald, who was widely recognized as “The Father of Modern Cardiology,” died on April 22 at the age of 96. When I first learned about his death, I thought about our

The outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship moored off the western coast of Africa is gripping a world primed by recent painful experience to be on edge for the next Covid-19-like

After a tidal wave of blowback that culminated in a lawsuit, a nonprofit health system has reversed course in its plan to replace its Oregon emergency physicians with a national chain.  PeaceHealth’s

The White House’s new strategy for addressing the nation’s drug crisis calls for a number of consensus public health measures: the overdose-reversal medication naloxone, medication-assisted treatment, and test strips used to detect

The way Color Health’s CEO Othman Laraki sees it, cancer has a scaling problem. New science regularly sets new standards of care, increasing the intricacy of managing an already complex illness. Cancer

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration authorized fruit-flavored vapes for the first time on Tuesday, after reports of pressure from President Trump.  The approval might sound like a move guaranteed to alarm

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