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A New Hippocratic Oath Asks Doctors To Fight Racial Injustice And Misinformation
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Yup. They actually help protect you, the wearer, from getting a potentially fatal disease. There are other reasons to wear them -- big ones -- but let's focus on
#1
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After NRA Mocks Doctors, Physicians Reply: 'This Is Our Lane'
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Moderna And Pfizer On Track To Hit Vaccine Production Goals
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A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer
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MacKenzie Scott makes a record $275 million donation to Planned Parenthood
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Working Americans Are Getting Less Sleep, Especially Those Who Save Our Lives
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A Large Study Provides More Evidence That MMR Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
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Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens
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The U.S. Surgeon General Is Calling COVID-19 Misinformation An 'Urgent Threat'
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How I Learned To Talk To My Filipino Mom About My Mental Health
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Cases are going up, up, up. And overwhelmed hospitals will soon follow, experts warn, if communities can't slow the spread.
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Michelle Obama Slams Trump For Rolling Back Her School Meals Program
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Big Bird got 'vaccinated' against COVID-19, drawing outrage from Republicans
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Singapore will stop covering the medical bills of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients
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Moderna Says Studies Show Its Vaccine Is Effective Against The Delta Variant
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Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine
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In A Message To Americans, Pope Francis Says Getting Vaccinated Is 'An Act Of Love'
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exclusive: A patient with sickle cell disease is the first in the U.S. to get a treatment that uses the revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing tool in an attempt to fix defective red blood cells.
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Fauci Awarded $1 Million Israeli Prize For 'Speaking Truth To Power' Amid Pandemic
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Why You Should Still Wear A Mask And Avoid Crowds After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine
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Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame
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In Historic First, Biden To Nominate Transgender Doctor As Assistant Health Secretary
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What's Your Purpose? Finding A Sense Of Meaning In Life Is Linked To Health
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Trump Administration Sued for Ending Funding Of Teen Pregnancy Programs
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U.S. Will Remain In WHO, Fauci Announces, As Biden Reverses Trump Move
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First COVID-19 Vaccine Doses To Go To Health Workers, Say CDC Advisers
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CDC: Childhood Trauma Is A Public Health Issue And We Can Do More Prevent It
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What The Industry Knew About Sugar's Health Effects, But Didn't Tell Us
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Obama, Bush, Clinton Say They're Willing To Get Coronavirus Vaccine On Camera
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In Rare Step, Esteemed Medical Journal Urges Americans To Vote Trump Out Of Office
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Study: COVID-19 Vaccine Is Safe During Pregnancy And May Protect Baby, Too
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How a team of Black paramedics set the gold standard for emergency medical response
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Black Women Try To Avert Medical Racism By Searching For Black Doctors
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Billionaire Mark Cuban launches online pharmacy aimed at lowering generic drug prices
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An Epidemiologist Says At-Home Testing Is Key To Stopping COVID
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Universal Mask Wearing Could Save Some 130,000 Lives In The U.S., Study Suggests
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Hearts Get 'Younger,' Even At Middle Age, With Exercise
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CDC Director Declares Racism A 'Serious Public Health Threat'
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FDA Analysis Of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Finds It Effective And Safe
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Hit hard by COVID, Native Americans come together to protect families and elders
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Fauci Says Teachers Should Be Required To Be Vaccinated
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A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled
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Fauci says the government must help fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox
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The U.S. needs to be thinking about how to minimize damage from the U.K. variant, right now. "This is our early warning," says epidemiologist Emma Hodcroft,
@firefoxx66
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U.S. could see 1 million cases per day, warns departing NIH director Francis Collins
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CDC Now Recommends Double-Masking For More Protection Against The Coronavirus
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'We Must Remember': Biden, Harris Memorialize COVID-19 Victims
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I Got A 'Mild' Breakthrough Case. Here's What I Wish I'd Known
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'I Regret Nothing': Doctor Who Criticized Trump Parade Works Last Day At Walter Reed
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Scotland Becomes First Country To Make Period Products Free
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Advances In ICU Care Are Saving More Patients Who Have COVID-19
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'Fauci Effect' Drives Record Number Of Medical School Applications
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Opinion: It's Your Right To See Your Medical Records. It Shouldn't Be This Hard To Do
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The judge who tossed mask mandate misunderstood public health law, legal experts say
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Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities
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Unvaccinated Pastor Who Almost Died Of COVID Now Preaches The Importance Of Vaccines
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Oprah And Prince Harry On Mental Health, Therapy And Their New TV Series
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With Obamacare Here to Stay, Some States Revive Medicaid Expansion
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For Teens Knee-Deep In Negativity, Reframing Thoughts Can Help
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Scientists Aim To Pull Peer Review Out Of The 17th Century
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Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Family Behind Purdue Pharma In Opioid Deaths
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President-elect Biden shared his plan to jump start distribution of the coronavirus vaccine. He's calling on states to expand vaccine eligibility and wants to mobilize FEMA to run vaccine distribution sites across the country.
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American Man, Accused Of Breaking Canada's COVID-19 Rules, Faces $560,000 Fine
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Growing Body Of Evidence Suggests Masks Protect Those Wearing Them, Too
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An Unlisted Side Effect, Thousands Of People Saw Menstruation Changes Post-Vaccine
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Vaccinated Americans say they're angry at those who refuse to get a shot, survey says
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Coronavirus: 14 Deaths Now In U.S.; New Cases In Maryland, Colorado
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American, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue will require their employees to be vaccinated
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Lollapalooza To Require Vaccination Card Or Negative Test To Attend The Festival
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A CDC Internal Report Says The Delta Variant Is More Transmissible Than A Cold
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Number Of U.S. Kids Who Don't Have Health Insurance Is On The Rise
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'Now Is Not The Time To Stop Wearing A Mask,' Says CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
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On Dying Alone: 'Behind Every COVID-19 Case, There Is A Story'
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U.S. Suicides Rates Are Rising Faster Among Women Than Men
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Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women
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Treating Teen Depression Might Improve Mental Health Of Parents Too
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CNN Fires Three Employees For Coming To Work Unvaccinated
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Biden To Bump Up Food Assistance For People 'Hanging By A Thread'
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I'm Pregnant. What Would Happen If I Couldn't Afford Health Care?
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Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and 8 Others Criminally Charged In Flint Water Crisis
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Kroger Offers $100 Bonus To Employees Who Get Vaccinated
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FDA Lifts Ban On Blood Donations By Gay And Bisexual Men
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The TSA Is Doubling Fines For Those Who Refuse To Wear A Mask While Flying
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Adding A Nylon Stocking Layer Could Boost Protection From Cloth Masks, Study Finds
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Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents
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The Dalai Lama Gets A COVID-19 Shot, Urges Others To Get Vaccinated
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'I Just Cry': Dying Of Hunger In Ethiopia's Blockaded Tigray Region
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A Free In-School Grocery Store Is Tackling Child Hunger, One Family At A Time
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When COVID Deaths Are Dismissed Or Stigmatized, Grief Is Mixed With Shame And Anger
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In Philadelphia, Black Doctors Bring Coronavirus Tests To Street Corners And Churches
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