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Bristeria Clark (center) at the graduation ceremony for Morehouse School of Medicine’s first class of rural doulas, called perinatal patient navigators. Clark, who’s also a nurse and county employee, wants …

Judith Dambowic, a multiple myeloma patient, on her porch in Oakland, CA, right before shaving her head in preparation for a stem cell transplant in May. Dambowic wanted California to …

What’s with the uptick in COVID cases? There’s a pattern that’s been repeated each year since COVID started — a late summer wave. Older people and those who are immuno-compromised …

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Caspar Benson/Getty Images/fStop Health insurance agents who fraudulently enroll consumers in Affordable Care Act health plans could be subject to criminal charges — and civil penalties of $10,000 to $200,000 …

The final results of a trial for a new HIV preventive strategy are out today. Experts express enthusiasm. But activists at the 2024 AIDS conference in Munich are protesting the …

A study of 48 post-mortem brains found a protein that appears to protect brain cells from Alzheimer’s — even in people who had significant amounts of amyloid plaques in their …

A large study looked at 11- and 12-year-old children, and 72% of them had their own cellphone. Sladic/E+/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sladic/E+/Getty Images How tweens use their electronic …

Chickens stand in their cages at a farm in 2009, near Stuart, Iowa. Millions of chickens have been culled in Iowa, Colorado and other states since 2022 in response to …

Case counts are skyrocketing in countries like Brazil and Peru and the virus is popping up in new turf, from Florida to Iran. What’s the cause? And what’s the solution? …