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    What is HIPAA and How Does the Law Work?

    As September beckons people back to the office and the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads rapidly across the country, workplaces are...

    ‘Not Out of the Woods’: C.D.C. Issues Warning to the Unvaccinated

    WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Thursday that the United States was “not out of the...

    ‘Not Out of the Woods’: C.D.C. Issues Blunt New Warning on Virus

    WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Thursday that the United States was “not out of the...

    The West Is Burning. Covid Is Surging. U.S. Politics Are Stagnant.

    The sirens have gotten pretty hard to ignore.Wildfires are raging across the Western United States and Canada, spreading smoke so widely that the sun...

    Should People Who Took The Covid-19 Vaccine Start Wearing Masks Again?

    As the Delta variant spreads among the unvaccinated, many fully vaccinated people are also beginning to worry. Is it time to mask up again?While...

    A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come

    For some years now John McGeehan, a biologist and the director of the Center for Enzyme Innovation in Portsmouth, England, has been searching for...

    Weekly Health Quiz: Fat, Weights and Foods

    Test your knowledge of this week’s health news. Source link

    Why Everyone Has the Worst Summer Cold Ever

    Sue Huang, director of the World Health Organization’s National Influenza Centre at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand, said the country’s...

    Olympics Virus Cases Raise Tricky Questions About Testing

    Moreover, questions about transmission remain unsettled. Vaccinated people with asymptomatic or breakthrough infections may still be able to pass the virus on to others,...

    States and Cities Near Tentative $26 Billion Deal in Opioids Cases

    The negotiations were stalled for months over attorneys’ fees. Innumerable lawyers have contributed different amounts of work and have fought over who should get...

    Drug Distributors and J.&J. Announce $26 Billion Deal to End Opioids Lawsuits

    After two years of wrangling, the country’s three major drug distributors and a pharmaceutical giant have reached a $26 billion deal with states that...

    More Hospitals Impose Vaccine Mandates for Employees

    More and more hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the Delta variant...

    As Virus Resurges, G.O.P. Lawmakers Allow Vaccine Skepticism to Flourish

    WASHINGTON — As the coronavirus surges in their states and districts, fanned by a more contagious variant exploiting paltry vaccination rates, many congressional Republicans...

    Lifting Weights? Your Fat Cells Would Like to Have a Word

    Before and after that process, the researchers drew blood, biopsied tissues, centrifuged fluids and microscopically searched for vesicles and other molecular changes in the...

    We Need to Know How Menopause Changes Women’s Brains

    During menopause, which marks the end of a woman’s menstrual cycles, her ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone, bringing an end to...

    A Personal History of the C-Section

    It would be a lie — or at least an incomplete truth — to deny that some part of me yearned for natural childbirth...