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Inside Novo Nordisk, the Company Behind Ozempic and Wegovy

Novo Nordisk’s factories work nonstop turning out Ozempic and Wegovy, its blockbuster weight-loss dr

Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?

H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American l

Scotland Pauses Gender Medications for Minors

The change followed a sweeping review by England’s National Health Service that found “remarkably we

Taking Account of Rising Health Care Costs

Have your out-of-network insurance bills skyrocketed? Chris Hamby, an investigative reporter for The

Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data

In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technol

Sophie Kinsella, ‘Shopaholic’ Author,’ Says She Has Brain Cancer

The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma,

Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok

At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to so

With Social Prescribing, Art and Volunteering Can Be Medicine

Prescriptions for social activities, exercise and the arts — first popularized in Britain — are comi

U.S. Limits Deadly Mining Dust as Black Lung Resurges

Federal regulation capping toxic airborne silica has been decades in the making. The delay has cost

5 Takeaways From a Year of Medicaid Upheaval

In the year after a pandemic-era policy preserving Medicaid coverage lapsed, more than 20 million pe

David Egilman, Doctor Who Took On Drug Companies, Dies at 71

His testimony as an expert witness in some 600 trials helped plaintiffs win billions of dollars in c

‘Eldest Daughter Syndrome’ and Sibling Birth Order: Does it Matter?

“Eldest daughter syndrome” assumes that birth order shapes who we are and how we interact. Does it?