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World
How International Law Views Military Action at a Hospital
The Israeli military has seized the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa. Israel says it needed to capture the hospital, in Gaza City, to destroy a Hamas command center and underground facilities that it says are there. Hamas and doctors at Al ...
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News
Doctors Wrestle With A.I. in Patient Care, Citing Lax Oversight
The F.D.A. has approved many new programs that use artificial intelligence, but doctors are skeptical that the tools really improve care or are backed by solid research.
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News
How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral
The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the practice.
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News
In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared
Over the last two decades, medical facilities and staff have become casualties of war more frequently, in violation of international law.
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News
Mary Lou Retton Crowdfunded Her Medical Debt, Like Many Thousands of Others
But unlike the Olympic gymnast, most people don’t raise enough money to cover their costs.
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Newyork
Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken
We have become fluent in the new language of pharmacology, diabetes, and weight loss. Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are part of our public lexicon. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are lifesaving drugs, created to help the hundreds of ...
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Newyork
Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans
In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and messages on abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less extreme. Conservatives are even considering ...
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US
Help! I Fell in Sicily and my Travel Insurance Ditched Me
Badly hurt, a 68-year-old solo traveler expected her insurer to coordinate her care, provide much-needed translation services and then return her home to Florida. Was she expecting too much?
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News
A Mystery in the E.R.? Ask Dr. Chatbot for a Diagnosis.
At a medical school in Boston, instructors are using ChatGPT in training exercises to help teach students how to think like doctors.
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US
Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors
The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by more than a dozen states, could withstand challenges.