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Good morning. Yesterday, the writer Yiyun Li won a Pulitzer Prize for her heartbreaking memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow.” Lately, I’ve been reading her short stories. Here’s one for after you’ve read

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

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the

Maternal health is a known crisis in the U.S., where pregnant women and new mothers die at a rate several times higher than in comparable countries. In recent years, increased awareness of

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened others. The germ, called hantavirus, has been confirmed in one of

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A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone prescriptions. Friday’s unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel

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