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Some patients experience pain or discomfort with the insertion of an IUD for contraception. New guidelines urge doctors to offer pain treatment. mariakraynovasrb/500px Plus/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption mariakraynovasrb/500px …

Former President Joe Biden is accompanied by senior advisor Mike Donilon (L) and Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed last April. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption …

Former President Biden’s diagnosis spotlights both advances and challenges with the disease.

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EyeEm Mobile GmbH/iStockphoto/Getty Images Exercise researcher Nicholas Burd says there was a long-held belief in his field that making gains in the gym required eating meat or other animal products. …

Smoke comes out from kilns at a brickfield on the outskirt of Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 6, 2021. Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images/NurPhoto hide caption toggle caption Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via …

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate HELP Committee Wednesday. He faced questions about vaccines, measles and cuts to biomedical research. Anna Moneymaker/Getty …

Taylor Carty, who has cerebral palsy, long dreamt of becoming a doctor. She hoped to one day help children and young adults with disabilities. Grace Widyatmadja for NPR hide caption …

A selection of eye drops line a shelf at a pharmacy in Los Angeles in December 2023. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Vogel/AP Pharmaceutical company AvKare has issued …

Residents of Marquette, a city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, gathered outside Planned Parenthood to celebrate and thank staffers as they finished the last day of patient care on April 23. …