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January 4, 2024

Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines

Kyle C. Garrison

Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can permanently integrate into human DNA.“These…

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January 2, 2024

Dry January: How to Set Yourself Up for Success

Kyle C. Garrison

Dry January sounds like a simple proposition: No alcohol. For 31 days. And some enthusiasts jump in without much planning — perhaps even hungover after a rowdy New Year’s Eve.There…

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January 1, 2024

La variante JN.1 ya domina en EE. UU.

Kyle C. Garrison

Hasta donde saben los expertos, la JN.1 no parece causar enfermedad grave en la mayoría de las personas, aunque hasta un caso leve puede hacerte sentir “bastante mal durante tres…

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December 30, 2023

Ohio Governor Blocks Bill Banning Transition Care for Minors

Kyle C. Garrison

BackgroundLawmakers passed the measure earlier in December. Those in favor of the bill argued that parents are pressured by doctors to sign off on transition care treatments for their children.…

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December 28, 2023

10 Nutrition Tips for a Healthy New Year

Kyle C. Garrison

As a health reporter who’s been following nutrition news for decades, I’ve seen a lot of trends that made a splash — and then sank. Remember olestra, the Paleo diet…

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December 26, 2023

Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals

Kyle C. Garrison

The rate of serious medical complications increased in hospitals after they were purchased by private equity investment firms, according to a major study of the effects of such acquisitions on…

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December 25, 2023

This Gorilla’s Caregivers Face Familiar Questions About Aging

Kyle C. Garrison

This month, as the patient lay anesthetized on a table, a cardiologist made a half-inch incision through the skin of his chest. She removed a small implanted heart monitor with…

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Bristol Myers to Acquire the Drugmaker Karuna for Billion

December 23, 2023

Bristol Myers to Acquire the Drugmaker Karuna for $14 Billion

Kyle C. Garrison

Bristol Myers Squibb, the global pharmaceutical giant, said on Friday that it would acquire Karuna Therapeutics, which makes drugs to treat schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s, in an all-cash deal valued at…

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December 21, 2023

How Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Surgery Became a Big Business

Kyle C. Garrison

Later in 2020, Ms. Lavelle also complained to the board, describing how she had been traumatized by her daughter’s tongue-tie release.The lactation board, which reports its disciplinary decisions, has not…

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December 19, 2023

Behind the Shortage Keeping Cancer Patients From Chemo

Kyle C. Garrison

Stephanie Scanlan learned about the shortages of basic chemotherapy drugs this spring in the most frightening way. Two of the three drugs typically used to treat her rare bone cancer…

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