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Doctors, Not Judges, Should Decide When to Treat Patients Without Their Consent
Not long ago, I took care of a middle-aged man at my hospital who had severe heart failure requiring life…
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Food
First Patient Begins Newly Approved Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
A 12-year-old boy in the Washington, D.C., area faces months of procedures to remedy his disease. “I want to be…
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Food
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated for Parents on Medicaid
The News For parents struggling with mental health or substance use disorders, access to treatment can often mean the difference…
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The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates…
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A.L.S. Drug Relyvrio Will Be Taken Off the Market, Its Maker Says
Results of a large clinical trial found the treatment did not work any better than a placebo.
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What We Know About Catherine, Princess of Wales’s Cancer Diagnosis
The princess said that the cancer had been discovered after abdominal surgery and that she was receiving “preventative chemotherapy.”
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US
California’s Ballot Measure on Mental Health Care Still Isn’t Decided. Why?
Proposition 1 was expected to be widely approved, but the vote is close. Here’s what the measure is and what’s…
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A.L.S. Drug Relyvrio Fails Clinical Trial and May Be Withdrawn From the Market
Leaders of the treatment’s manufacturer, Amylyx, said they would announce their plans for it within eight weeks.
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Three Mothers’ Plea to the F.D.A.: Save Our Children
More from our inbox: Regulating Content on Social MediaSanctions as Political TheaterRepublicans, Christians and I.V.F.A House Full of MemoriesCredit...Kaitlin BritoTo…
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Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia?
The doctors told Naomi that she could not leave the hospital. She was lying in a narrow bed at Denver…