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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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Three passengers are dead. Seven people are ill. The ship is anchored off Cape Verde, passengers cannot disembark, and the World Health Organization is coordinating the response. The suspected cause is hantavirus,

WASHINGTON — For decades, politicians have blamed the country’s biggest doctor lobby for some of the health care systems problems. Now it faces a new line of attack as Republicans portray their