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Can a Federally Funded ‘Netflix Model’ Fix the Broken Market for Antibiotics?

“The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated America’s vulnerability to catastrophic public health crises, and it highlighted the urgency of taking reasonable measures to prevent them in...

Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow

A jumble of cords and two devices the size of soda cans protrude from Austin Beggin’s head when he undergoes testing with a team...

The End of Covid Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’

Operation Warp Speed, the Trump-era program that poured billions of dollars into developing Covid shots, seemed to signal a new dawn of American vaccine...

Gene Treatment for Rare Epilepsy Causes Brain Side Effect in 2 Children

Weeks after Valeria Schenkel took an experimental drug named after her, the daily seizures that had afflicted her from birth became less frequent. But...

Cancer Drug Greatly Reduces Deaths in Hospitalized Covid Patients

An experimental drug initially developed to fight cancer cut the risk of death for people hospitalized with Covid by half, according to a study...

Small Study on Rectal Cancer Results in Remission in Every Patient

It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug.But the results were astonishing. The cancer...

Moderna Vaccine Provokes Strong Immune Response in Children 6 to 11

Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine elicits a strong immune response in children aged 6 to 11, researchers reported on Wednesday — another signpost in what has...

FDA Panel Rejects Lilly’s Cancer Drug Tested Only in China

The agency has long had strict rules about approving drugs that were tested solely overseas, requiring that the data be applicable to patients and...

A Cancer Treatment Makes Leukemia Vanish, but Creates More Mysteries

After the CD8 cells did their job, they remained in the blood but, unexpectedly, they turned into CD4 cells. And when the Penn investigators...

How The mRNA Vaccines Were Made: Halting Progress and Happy Accidents

“I said, ‘I am an RNA scientist. I can do anything with RNA,’” Dr. Karikó recalled telling Dr. Weissman. He asked her: Could you...

Pfizer Says Its Antiviral Pill Is Highly Effective in Treating Covid

Pfizer announced on Friday that its pill to treat Covid-19 had been found in a key clinical trial to be highly effective at preventing...

F.D.A. Says Pfizer Vaccine’s Benefits Outweigh Key Risks in Children 5 to 11

But they have remained high, with more than 130,000 cases reported in the second week of October, the American Academy of Pediatrics said, accounting...

Pfizer Asks F.D.A. to Authorize Its Covid-19 Vaccine for Children 5 to 11

WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech asked federal regulators on Thursday to authorize emergency use of their coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5 to 11,...

Covid Vaccine Prompts Strong Immune Response in Younger Children, Pfizer Says

The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years, the companies announced...

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