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NYT Health - 2025-12-21 13:52:16 - Paula Span

Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves

 

In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects.
NYT Health - 2025-12-19 21:14:56 - Apoorva Mandavilli

R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s

 

The shift would mean fewer shots recommended for children. But a Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting “crazier and crazier in public health.”
NYT Health - 2025-12-19 19:28:18 - Rebecca Robbins

Trump Announces Pricing Deals With Nine Drugmakers

 

The companies agreed to sell most of their drugs to Medicaid at the prices they charge in European countries and to sell drugs directly to consumers through a planned TrumpRx website.
NYT Health - 2025-12-19 16:11:23 - Christina Jewett

F.D.A. Turmoil Keeps Spotlight on Its Commissioner

 

The agency’s high-level turnover and conflicting policy decisions on drug oversight have fueled concerns about the leadership of Dr. Marty Makary.
NYT Health - 2025-12-19 11:41:22 - Jan Hoffman

Why the New Cannabis Classification Matters

 

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients.
NYT Health - 2025-12-18 16:56:22 - Azeen Ghorayshi, Amy Harmon and Reed Abelson

Trump Moves to End Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors

 

Proposed new rules would pull all federal financing from hospitals that continue to provide gender treatments for adolescents.
NYT Health - 2025-12-18 07:03:40 - Minho Kim

HHS Cancels Grants to Group That Criticized RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policies

 

The American Academy of Pediatrics had called the department’s policies “irresponsible and purposefully misleading” and joined a lawsuit against its vaccine policy.
NYT Health - 2025-12-16 18:40:13 - Roni Caryn Rabin

Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You

 

The American Heart Association report runs contrary to recent studies — and the group’s own guidelines — that found any amount of alcohol to be harmful.
NYT Health - 2025-12-16 08:00:10 - Joseph Goldstein and Maia Coleman

Flu Cases Skyrocket in New York City, Earlier Than Expected

 

The city and surrounding region have some of the highest levels of flu-like illness in the United States.
NYT Health - 2025-12-15 11:59:53 - Jan Hoffman and Hannah Yoon

A Powerful New Drug Is Creating a ‘Withdrawal Crisis’ in Philadelphia

 

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities.
NYT Health - 2025-12-13 18:03:52 - Zach Montague

Government Can Withhold Funds From Planned Parenthood, Appeals Court Rules

 

A three-judge panel threw out a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to continue defunding the group and other major abortion providers.
NYT Health - 2025-12-13 02:06:04 - Roni Caryn Rabin

Risk-Based Screening Works as Well as Yearly Checks After 40 in Finding Breast Cancers

 

A study of more than 45,000 women found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.
NYT Health - 2025-12-12 22:34:51 - Andrew Jacobs

F.D.A. Approves Two New Drugs to Treat Gonorrhea

 

The sexually transmitted disease has become increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics.
NYT Health - 2025-12-12 10:01:42 - Jan Hoffman

Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit

 

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness.
NYT Health - 2025-12-11 18:42:12 - Apoorva Mandavilli

Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported

 

The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent in children under 4, and by 56 percent in children 5 to 17.
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