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Category: Health Fitness
Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modified Pig
Richard “Rick” Slayman, who made history at age 62 as the first person to receive […]
Biden Administration to Pay Dairy Farmers for Bird Flu Protective Measures
The Biden administration said on Friday that it would compensate dairy farmers for cooperating with […]
The Ages When You Feel Most Lonely and How to Reconnect
When Surgeon General Vivek Murthy went on a nationwide college tour last fall, he started […]
Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Mediator for Life’s Final Moments, Dies at 82
Nancy Neveloff Dubler, a medical ethicist who pioneered using mediation at hospital bedsides to navigate […]
Herbert Pardes, Who Steered the Growth of a Giant Hospital, Dies at 89
Dr. Herbert Pardes, a psychiatrist and a former director of the National Institute of Mental […]
How Poor Tracking of Bird Flu Leaves Dairy Workers at Risk
Even as it has become increasingly clear that the bird flu outbreak on the nation’s […]
Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds
Several large-scale, human-driven changes to the planet — including climate change, the loss of biodiversity […]
Milton Diamond, Sexologist and Advocate for Intersex Babies, Dies at 90
Academic conferences are usually staid affairs, but the 1973 International Symposium on Gender Identity, held […]
RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe […]