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Category: Medicine and Health
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Is It OK to Confide in My Best Friend About My Heavy Medical Diagnosis?
A reader wonders whether it would unfairly burden a friend to share sobering health news with her and her alone.
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Truemed, a Start-Up Run by an RFK. Jr. Aide, Gives Tax Breaks for Meat and Mattresses
The start-up, called Truemed, helps people buy meat and mattresses with money that isn’t subject to federal income tax. But does the tax break apply?
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Heath Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows
Offering a rare glimpse inside the hidden world of rejected insurance claims, new data shows a steady uptick among major private insurers.
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Trump Administration Will Limit Medicare Spending on Pricey Bandages
In an about-face, the administration is cracking down on so-called skin substitutes, overused treatments that cost Medicare more than $10 billion last year.
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Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support
A new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone.
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Insurers Pledge to Ease Controversial Prior Approvals for Medical Care
Major companies had faced mounting pressure to stop denying or stalling authorization of coverage for treatments and prescriptions.
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Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.
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South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.
The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.
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Norma Swenson, ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ Co-Author, Dies at 93
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.
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They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering?
A group of British men went from London to the summit of Everest and back in less than a week with the help of xenon gas. Mountaineers and the Nepalese government weren’t pleased.
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Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth Group C.E.O., Steps Down
The company said that Mr. Witty had left the job for personal reasons. Stephen Hemsley, the company’s executive chairman, will replace him.