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After a courtroom defeat, Trump administration health officials have revised the governing documents for a key federal vaccine panel to broaden its membership, increase its focus on potential harms of vaccines, and
Georg Schett had two things: a young patient deathly ill with lupus, and a couple of mouse studies raising the possibility that special T cells could tame the condition. The German physician-scientist
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. A First Opinion essay today argues that “tastiness is not why people overeat.” But
“Betcha can’t eat just one!” This slogan for Lay’s potato chips seemed endearing in mid-20th-century America, before the rise of the obesity epidemic. Looking back from today, it foreshadowed a food industry
At first blush, it might seem like Charleston, W.Va., New York, N.Y., and Janesville, Wis., have little in common. But those three metros were flagged in a new report as having some
It’s the leading risk factor for the leading cause of death in the United States and around the world: high blood pressure, the prime mover in heart attacks and strokes. High blood
Specific changes in two genes appear to help predict whether patients will lose substantial weight on GLP-1 drugs used to treat obesity — and whether the drugs will cause nausea or vomiting,
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A federal judge Tuesday refused to block filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone by mail across the U.S. — at least for now — in a setback to Louisiana’s effort to