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    A Colonoscopy Alternative Comes Home

    The Task Force has found several kinds of screening tests effective, but the ones used most for people at average risk are colonoscopy, at...

    How the Right Foods May Lead to a Healthier Gut, and Better Health

    Scientists know that the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that live in our guts play an important role in health, influencing our risk...

    An Appreciation for Vaccines, and How Far They Have Come

    The first pertussis vaccines were developed and tested in the 1920s and 1930s and were in universal use by the end of the 1940s....

    Why Are We So Afraid of Fevers?

    Under most circumstances, fever is beneficial, reducing the severity of illness and shortening its length. Source link

    ‘It Became Sort of Lawless’: Florida Vaccine Rollout Turns Into a Free-for-All

    MIAMI — Linda Kleindienst Bruns registered for a coronavirus vaccine in late December, on the first day the health department in Tallahassee, Fla., opened...

    At Elite Medical Centers, Even Workers Who Don’t Qualify Are Vaccinated

    A 20-something who works on computers. A young researcher who studies cancer. Technicians in basic research labs.These are some of the thousands of people...

    Hooking Up in the Covid Era

    Anna, who is 29 and asked to be identified by her middle name to protect her high-profile job in Washington, D.C., said that the...

    How to Keep Your Pandemic Habits

    The following is a review, created for the print edition, of several longer stories that have run this week, called the 7 Day Well...

    Pressure Grows for States to Open Vaccines to More Groups of People

    Just weeks into the country’s coronavirus vaccination effort, states have begun broadening access to the shots faster than planned, amid tremendous public demand and...

    To Start a New Habit, Make It Easy

    Organize your refrigerator. Often the tipping point in a kitchen is the refrigerator. When your fridge is a mess, it’s hard to know what...

    An 11th-Hour Approval for Major Changes to Medicaid in Tennessee

    With 12 days to go, the Trump administration on Friday approved a long-held conservative goal: to issue a state’s Medicaid funding as a spending-capped...

    False Reports of a New ‘U.S. Variant’ Came from White House Task Force

    Reports of a highly contagious new variant in the United States, published on Friday by multiple news outlets, are based on speculative statements made...

    6 Months Later, Covid Survivors Plagued by Health Problems

    Most symptoms in the Wuhan report were slightly more common among women, with 81 percent reporting at least one health problem, compared with 73...

    Pfizer Says Its Vaccine Works Against Key Mutation in Contagious Variants

    Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Friday that their Covid vaccine is effective against one of the mutations present in the new contagious variants identified...

    Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Takes Aim at Racial Gaps in Health Care

    Growing up in the United States Virgin Islands, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith saw firsthand what can happen in a community with limited access to health...

    Health Officials Use Eventbrite to Meet Coronavirus Vaccine Demand

    In the early stages of a global push to distribute the coronavirus vaccine to those who need it most — a process that has,...