Health
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PublishedMarch 20, 2023
With overdoses climbing, states look at harsher fentanyl penalties
Imposing longer prison sentences for possessing smaller amounts of drugs represents a shift in states that in recent years have rolled back drug possession penalties.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2023
Biogen ALS drug may have treatment effect, FDA staff says
More drugmakers are targeting incurable diseases like ALS, often forcing the FDA to grapple with difficult questions of whether to clear medicines backed by questionable data for desperate patients.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2023
Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready.
An estimated 18 million middle-income baby boomers will not have enough to pay for care for moderate to severe needs, according to one analysis.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2023
Long-COVID symptoms are less common now than earlier in the pandemic
The findings also show that patients with certain underlying medical conditions have twice the odds as previously healthy people of seeking care for long COVID.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2023
Cases of a tick-borne disease rising sharply in Maine, CDC says
Only Vermont had a steeper increase in cases of babesiosis from 2011 to 2019, according to a new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2023
U.S. pregnancy deaths dropped in 2022, after COVID spike
Officials say the 2022 maternal death rate is on track to get close to pre-pandemic levels. But that's not great: The rate before COVID-19 was the highest it had been in decades.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2023
Chinese SARS whistleblower Jiang Yanyong dies at 91
The military doctor revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2023
In nursing homes, impoverished residents live final days on pennies
A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2023
Long-used abortion pill in U.S. under threat in Texas lawsuit
A federal judge is being asked to revoke or suspend the FDA's drug's approval of the drug 23 years ago, an unprecedented challenge to the federal agency's role.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2023
3 years later, the pandemic cocoon is giving way to social butterflies
Long after Maine's first case of coronavirus, communal activities and gatherings are reaching pre-pandemic levels again, though troubling remnants of isolation persist.
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