Birth Control Pills Still Linked to Breast Cancer, Study Finds
Women using birth control pills and I.U.D.s that release hormones face a higher risk than those using methods without hormones, scientists in Denmark reported.
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Photo CreditHBO Sifting Through a Life After Suicide
In a documentary, a filmmaker sorts through the items her sister left behind to try to make sense of her life, and her death.
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Photo CreditiStock Should You Be Worried About the Arsenic in Your Baby Food?
Baby cereals made with oatmeal, barley, buckwheat, organic quinoa and wheat contained much lower amounts of inorganic arsenic than rice cereals.
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Photo CreditBill Clark/CQ Roll Call, via Associated Press Trump Pick to Head Consumer Safety Board Is Seen as Too Close to Industries
Ann Marie Buerkle, a commissioner poised to run the federal agency, has rarely voted for a mandatory recall, a maximum fine, or a tougher safety standard.
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Photo CreditJim Mone/Associated Press UnitedHealth Buys Large Doctors Group as Lines Blur in Health Care
The purchase of DaVita Medical Group moves UnitedHealth more into the role of doctor as it buys nearly 300 clinics across six states.
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Photo CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute What We Learned in 2017
Developments in science, medicine and health that we’re still thinking about at year’s end.
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Phys Ed
Photo CreditiStock How Exercise Can Make for Healthier Fat
A single session of exercise may change the molecular workings of fat tissue in ways that, over time, should improve metabolic health.
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Photo CreditMark Makela for The New York Times The CHIP Program Is Beloved. Why Is Its Funding in Danger?
A children’s health insurance program popular with both Republicans and Democrats is in limbo because of partisan rancor that has stymied legislative action in Washington.
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Global Health
Photo CreditCharlie Shoemaker for The New York Times ‘Opiophobia’ Has Left Africa in Agony
Uganda has a strategy for giving scarce morphine to patients in pain. But many poor nations won’t emulate it, over fear of an opioid epidemic.
