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    Weekly Health Quiz: An Australian Mystery, Covid and the Teenage Brain

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    Billions in New Obamacare Subsidies Are Now Available on Healthcare.gov

    Federal officials have reprogrammed Healthcare.gov, making new benefits available to tens of millions of Americans, weeks after Congress authorized spending billions on additional health...

    Science Plays the Long Game. But People Have Mental Health Issues Now.

    When it came to judging government-funded research projects — a cleaner enterprise, presumably — I again asked the questions that people in crisis continually...

    What the History of Pandemics Can Teach Us About Resilience

    And now, the United States faces a pandemic that has disproportionately sickened and killed Americans of color, who are overrepresented in the essential work...

    Enter the Age of the Vaccine Selfie

    Someday, when the history of the pandemic is written, it may be a narrative told partly in images: the despair of crowded hospitals and...

    ‘It Takes Time’: I.C.U. Workers Help Their Former Covid Patients Mend

    LOS ANGELES — Three days after being released from Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, Gilbert Torres returned on a stretcher, a clear tube...

    Covid-19 Vaccine Card Guide: Keeping it Safe, Travel, Information, Passport and Benefits

    “Customers began seeking out ways to protect their Covid-19 vaccine record cards, knowing they will likely be important to have on hand in the...

    Factory Mix-Up Ruins Up to 15 Million Vaccine Doses From Johnson & Johnson

    WASHINGTON — Workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the ingredients several weeks ago, contaminating as many as 15...

    A ‘Game Changer’ for Patients With Esophageal Cancer

    The chemotherapy has difficult side effects, and the radiation causes a burning sensation that makes it difficult to swallow. “Food won’t go down,” Ms....

    The C.D.C. and N.I.H. launch a rapid, at-home testing initiative in Tennessee and North Carolina.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health announced a new initiative on Wednesday to help determine whether frequent,...

    Italy Pushes Back as Health Care Workers Shun Covid Vaccines

    ROME — Giulio Macciò tested negative for the coronavirus and spent weeks receiving treatment for emphysema in a sealed-off hospital under the care of...

    Virus Variants Can Infect Mice, Scientists Report

    Bats, humans, monkeys, minks, big cats and big apes — the coronavirus can make a home in many different animals. But now the list...

    She Suffered Balance Issues for Years. Was It a Brain Tumor?

    But when he saw the dental CT, he immediately ordered a conventional CT of her head. The dental scan was developed to give a...

    How to Lower Your Child’s Risk for Addiction

    I wanted Finn to be able to talk to me about all his fears and anxiety around the move, and I knew that self-efficacy...

    How Wearing a Mask Can Reduce Allergy Symptoms

    As we head into our second pandemic spring, many of us may be itching to give up our masks. But for the 19.2 million...

    Walking and Other Aerobic Exercise May Aid the Aging Brain

    Everyone in both groups worked out three times a week at first, for about half an hour and under supervision. They then added sessions...