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Hospitals Are Increasingly Crowded With Kids Who Tried to Harm Themselves, Study Finds

Hospitalizations for pediatric suicidal behavior increased by 163 percent over an 11-year period, an analysis of millions of hospital admissions in the United States found.

By Ellen Barry

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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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Colleges Have Been a Small-Town Lifeline. What Happens as They Shrink?

Declining student enrollment is hitting the rural areas that rely on universities. They’re trying to adapt to survive.

By Lydia DePillis