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Over-the-Counter Narcan Could Save More Lives. But Price and Stigma Are Obstacles

The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to allow the overdose-reversal medication to be sold without a prescription, a step toward making it a common emergency tool.

By Jan Hoffman

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These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too.

Duodenoscopes — tubular cameras threaded into the intestine — with disposable parts were supposed to be safer. But the parts can fall off in the body, the F.D.A. warned.

By Roni Caryn Rabin

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Rising Rate of Drug Shortages Is Framed as a National Security Threat

A Senate homeland security committee examined growing health care shortages amid reports of rationing within hospitals.

By Christina Jewett

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Frozen Strawberries Recalled Over Hepatitis A Risk

The products, which were sold at Trader Joe’s, Costco, Aldi and other retailers, have been linked to five cases of illness, a federal agency said.

By Joshua Needelman