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    Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Works Well and May Curb Virus Spread

    The newly released documents, which include the F.D.A.’s first technical analysis of the company’s 45,000-person clinical trial, presented evidence that the vaccine was safe,...

    Will Tiger Woods Play Golf Again? Doctors Predict a Difficult Recovery

    The serious lower leg injuries Tiger Woods sustained in a car crash on Tuesday typically lead to a long and perilous recovery, calling into...

    Head of McKinsey Is Voted Out as Firm Faces Reckoning on Opioid Crisis

    Partners at McKinsey & Company voted out the consulting firm’s top executive, Kevin Sneader, this week as it continues to face blowback over its...

    Transplant Patient Dies After Receiving Lungs Infected With Coronavirus

    A woman in Michigan died 61 days after she received a pair of lungs from an organ donor who had been infected with the...

    Can Zapping Our Brains Really Cure Depression?

    The brain is an electrical organ. Everything that goes on in there is a result of millivolts zipping from one neuron to another in...

    Exercise vs. Diet? What Children of the Amazon Can Teach Us About Weight Gain

    Young Shuar differ from most Western children in so many ways, though, including their genetics, that interpreting that study’s findings was challenging, Dr. Urlacher...

    Travel Quarantines: Enduring the Mundane, One Day at a Time

    May Samali knew she’d reached her limit when she saw a tentacle emerging from her hotel dinner in Sydney, Australia.“I called downstairs and said,...

    For Some Teens, It’s Been a Year of Anxiety and Trips to the E.R.

    In a recent report, a research team led by the C.D.C. found that less than half of the emergency departments in U.S. hospitals had...

    Got a Pandemic Puppy? Learn How to Prevent Dog Bites

    The bites that require hospitalization and surgical repair are the most serious injuries, such as toddlers bitten in the face and neck, where many...

    Studies Examine Variant Surging in California, and the News Isn’t Good

    A variant first discovered in California in December is more contagious than earlier forms of the coronavirus, two new studies have shown, fueling concerns...

    Where a Vaccination Campaign Faces Skepticism, War and Corruption

    KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan, whose citizens have largely brushed aside the coronavirus pandemic as exaggerated or an outright hoax, is now preparing to distribute...

    Future Vaccines Depend on Test Subjects in Short Supply: Monkeys

    Mark Lewis was desperate to find monkeys. Millions of human lives, all over the world, were at stake.Mr. Lewis, the chief executive of Bioqual,...

    How Meaningful Is Prediabetes for Older Adults?

    A few years ago, routine lab tests showed that Susan Glickman Weinberg, then a 65-year-old clinical social worker in Los Angeles, had a hemoglobin...

    U.S. Reaches 500,000 Covid Deaths

    The virus has reached every corner of America, devastating dense cities and rural counties alike through surges that barreled through one region and then...

    Researchers Halt Trial of Promising Sickle Cell Treatment

    Just when it seemed that a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease was sailing toward success, the company developing the treatment found that...

    Vaccines Adapted for Variants Will Not Need Lengthy Testing, F.D.A. Says

    The Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that vaccine developers would not need to conduct lengthy randomized controlled trials for vaccines that have...