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TrumpRx, the Presidentâs Online Drugstore, Opens for Business
TrumpRx is aimed at helping patients use their own money to buy medicines. But researchers who study drug pricing warned that many patients could pay too much if they use the site.
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Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Shows Limits of Tracking Pacemakers in Police Work
The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances.
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F.T.C. Settles With Express Scripts Over High Insulin Prices
The Trump administration announced that the company, a pharmacy benefit manager, had agreed to make significant changes to its practices.
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Doctorsâ Group Endorses Restrictions on Gender-Related Surgery for Minors
The A.M.A.âs announcement followed a similar recommendation from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Other medical groups argued for a more personalized approach.
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Congress Reins In Drug Middlemen in Effort to Lower Prescription Prices
The legislation will impose new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, giant companies like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts that oversee prescription drug benefits.
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Plastic Surgeonsâ Group Advises Delaying Gender-Affirming Procedures Until Age 19
The organizationâs latest guidance is a departure from the prevailing views of several other major medical organizations.
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Woman Wins Malpractice Suit Over Gender Surgery as a Minor
In a legal first, a jury in New York awarded $2 million to a patient who said that doctors had deviated from accepted medical standards.
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âBiblical Diseasesâ Could Resurge in Africa, Health Officials Fear
Parasites and infections that cause blindness and other disabilities were nearly eliminated in some countries, but drug distribution to prevent and treat them was derailed in many places in 2025 after the U.S. cut aid.
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Research Finds Interaction With Father, Not Mother, Affects Child Health
A long-term study of 292 families linked fathersâ parenting style to their childrenâs heart health years later. To researchersâ surprise, no such link was found with mothers.
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TrumpRx Is Set to Go Live on Thursday
The government website is meant to connect Americans with drug companies to buy prescriptions directly with their own money. It is not clear how many patients will save money.
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What Does It Mean to Be Touch-Starved?
Research says that our health can suffer when we donât experience enough physical contact. Hereâs how to get more.
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He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data
Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut.
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F.D.A. Relaxes Rules on âNaturally Derivedâ Dyes
Food makers will now be able to claim that their products have âno artificial colors,â so long as they use dyes that are not petroleum-based.
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Senators Accuse Equifax of âPrice-Gougingâ Medicaid Programs
The companyâs data will be essential for many states to comply with new work requirements for the health insurance program that take effect next year.
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âBridgertonâ Tackles the Orgasm Gap
Sex therapists say a characterâs struggle to reach her âpinnacleâ could help viewers better understand womenâs sexuality.
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What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?
Experts are using high-res scanners and 3-D printers to illuminate ancient ailments and injuries.
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H.H.S. to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said addiction is a âspiritual diseaseâ that calls out for the involvement of religious organizations.
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N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Seeks Whistle-Blower Protection
Jenna Norton, a National Institutes of Health employee, has been an outspoken critic of the administrationâs research cuts and has been on paid leave.
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Psychosis Diagnoses Have Risen Among Young Canadians, Data Shows
Researchers believe increasing use of cannabis may be contributing to a rise in new cases of schizophrenia and related disorders at younger ages.
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The Wonder Drug Thatâs Plaguing Sports
Ostarine held the promise of profound medical treatments. Something unexpected happened on the way to F.D.A. approval.
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When the Doctor Needs a Checkup
The physician work force is aging fast, and some hospitals now require that older clinicians undergo testing for cognitive decline. Many have resisted.
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Morris Waxler, F.D.A. Official Who Switched Stance on Lasik, Dies at 88
While at the federal agency, he approved the laser device for eye surgery but later warned of its potential to cause harm.
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A Predictor of a Good Social Life? Your Parents.
A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.
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Physician Assistants Want a New Name and More Power. Not Everyone Is Happy.
How increased responsibilities and a push to be called âphysician associatesâ are raising tensions with doctors.
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What Itâs Like to Live With One of Psychiatryâs Most Misunderstood Diagnoses
Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it.
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