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WASHINGTON — Brian Blase, president of Paragon Health Institute, has become a trusted adviser to Republicans in Congress, who passed sweeping changes to federal funding for health care last year. The Medicaid

CLEVELAND — Amy Acton couldn’t speak.  Supporters of Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio, were waiting for her remarks along the banks of the Black River, once known as the

Shares in Grail, the company developing a blood test aimed at detecting many different types of cancer early, when they can be treated more effectively, surged 33% Monday after the Food and

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Addiction clinics around the country are seeing a growing number of cases related to gas station products made from the kratom leaf and its derivatives. At the telehealth addiction clinic Boulder Care,

When health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks about the chronic disease epidemic ravaging America’s young, I am one of the people he is speaking about. At 34 years old, I am

If you are a patient looking to join a clinical trial, a clinician advising one, or a researcher trying to understand the trials that have been conducted for a particular medication, you

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their long-standing prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining a ban on transfusions of whole

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