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Some breast cancer patients can avoid certain surgeries, studies ...
2024年12月12日 · Some early breast cancer patients can safely avoid specific surgeries, according to two studies exploring ways to lessen treatment burdens.. One new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examines whether removing lymph nodes is always necessary in early breast cancer.
Genes play a very small role in determining left-handedness, …
2024年4月21日 · Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016.
Coronavirus FAQ: Is the 6-foot rule debunked? Or does distance …
2024年6月23日 · We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life in the era of COVID-19. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Coronavirus Questions." See an archive of our FAQs here.. We all remember those early days of the pandemic.
As Florida's 6-week abortion law begins, here are 7 things to know
2024年4月30日 · People no longer have access to legal abortions in Florida beyond six weeks of pregnancy. The restriction, which went into affect Wednesday, replaces a 15-week ban that's been in effect since July 2022, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. . Abortion rights supporters say it will dramatically curb access to the procedure for thousands of residents in Florida and around ...
UF Health Jacksonville breaks ground on $90 million trauma center ...
2024年11月22日 · UF Health Jacksonville broke ground Thursday on an expanded trauma center named for former hospital CEO Leon L. Haley Jr. Haley was 56 when he died in July 2021 after he was thrown from a personal watercraft in the Palm Beach Inlet.
A Johns Hopkins study says 'ill-founded' COVID lockdowns did …
2022年2月2日 · Lisa Kreyer holds up a sign during a protest by hair salon owners and workers against lockdown orders in 2020, in San Rafael, Calif. A study has concluded that lockdowns “are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
An increasing number of mental health practitioners do not take ...
2024年12月17日 · STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: People who seek mental health care are having a hard time finding somebody to take their insurance. New data show about a third of psychologists do not deal with insurance at all.
Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are ...
2024年11月13日 · Permanent tent cities are another idea Trump has for dealing with people who are unhoused. Sequestering people with mental illness or substance abuse in one place has been tried, an expert says, and "it turns into hell on earth."
How the CDC could change under the next Trump administration
Updated November 14, 2024 at 18:24 PM ET. In its 78-year history, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has evolved from its origins tackling malaria to an agency that aims to safeguard almost every aspect of Americans' health.