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Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients
The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation in the fall of 2022 is a byproduct of financial decisions made by hospitals over...
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As STDs proliferate, companies rush to market at-home test kits. But are they reliable?
The FDA wants companies to prove that home collection kits are as accurate as those used in clinics, and that samples don’t degrade during...
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Why pregnant people were left behind while vaccines moved at ‘warp speed’ to help the masses
A growing number of women’s health researchers and advocates say that excluding pregnant people – and the months-long delay in recommending that...
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Doctors more likely to prescribe opioids to COVID ‘long-haulers,’ raising addiction fears
The new study “suggests to me that many clinicians still don’t get it,” said Dr. Andrew Kolodny.
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Inside the flawed White House testing scheme that did not protect Trump
An early antigen test used by the White House was woefully inaccurate. But the new antigen test the White House is using has not been...
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Signs of an ‘October vaccine surprise’ alarm career scientists
If the executive branch were to overrule the FDA’s scientific judgment, a vaccine of limited efficacy and, worse, unknown side effects could be...