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India’s doctors sound alarm over boom in availability of weight loss jabs

Country is facing epidemic of diabetes and obesity, but experts say widespread and unregulated use of weight loss drugs could put patients at riskIndia’s leading doctors have warned of the dangers of an unregulated boom in weight loss injections, and emphasised they are not a magic pill to solve the…

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Doctors warn of ‘super flu’ variant circulating in hot spots across the country

Ahead of the holiday tourist rush, city health officials in New York City reported nearly 14,000 flu cases in the first week of December.

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What's really going on with flu this winter?

We've been told we're facing an unprecedented superflu. Is it?

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Britney Spears Fights IRS Over 2021 Income Tax Bill

The federal tax authority claims Spears underreported her income by $1.4 million. She disagrees.

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STAT+: Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals

Drugmakers promise to stockpile certain drugs as part of new drug pricing deals

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Here's how much ACA costs would have risen this year without subsidies

Millions of people with an Affordable Care Act health plan face a massive jump in premiums next year — this chart shows just how much.

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STAT+: Kennedy vaccine adviser to take a new role at CDC on children’s health research

A vaccine adviser at the CDC with ties to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being given a new portfolio overseeing research into adverse childhood experiences.

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Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers face death in jail, doctors say

Six British hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action are at risk of death in prison, doctors and relatives warn.

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Why Holiday 'Rest' Doesn't Actually Restore Us, And What Works Better

The way you relax may be backfiring.

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A letter from STAT’s Rick Berke on a tumultuous year in health and science

A letter to readers from STAT Executive Editor Rick Berke on a tumultuous year in health and science.

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Disabled people in England ‘betrayed’ by cuts to new-build accessibility targets

Campaigners decry plan to reduce requirement for improved standards from 100% down to 40% of new homesGovernment plans to make huge cuts to targets for accessible new-build homes in England have been labelled a “monumental reversal” by campaigners, who say disabled people have been left feeling “bet…

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Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak

Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public health experts sayThe non-profit group that Robert F Kennedy Jr built into a giant of the anti-vaccine movement is defending its old boss even as t…

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My Husband Refuses One Part of Our Sex Life. I’m Not Sure I Can Live With It.

When I mention this to him, he changes the subject.

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The 98% mystery: Scientists just cracked the code on “junk DNA” linked to Alzheimer’s

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that truly influence gene activity—many tied to known …

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Norway's crown princess likely needs lung transplant, palace says

Mette-Marit has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that stiffens the lungs, making it hard to breathe.

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‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada

In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providersWhen the holistic practitioner Emma Cardinal, 32, became pregnant in May 2023, she planned to have a home birth with midwives. Cardinal lives in a town in British Columb…

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