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Why Many Older Women Are Getting Pap Tests They Don’t Need

About a decade ago, Andrea Clay went online to read about newly revised guidelines on cervical cancer screening.None of her health care providers had...

U.S. Will Offer Free At-Home Covid Tests as Part of Winter Plan

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Thursday that it would restart a program that provided free coronavirus tests to American households through the...

Sunny Balwani, No. 2 Theranos Executive, Is Sentenced for Fraud

Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison...

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on...

Lasker Award Honors Development of Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Test

It was a startling discovery: Tiny pieces of an unborn baby’s DNA were found floating through its mother’s bloodstream — not inside the mother’s...

Demand for Monkeypox Vaccine Exceeds Supply, C.D.C. Says

“We have the capacity for testing that we need and have made it easier to access,” Dr. Walenksy said.But health officials should be doing...

Theranos Executive Ramesh Balwani Found Guilty of 12 Counts of Fraud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ramesh Balwani, a former top executive at Theranos, was found guilty on Thursday of 12 counts of fraud, in a...

Closing Statements Begin in Trial of Sunny Balwani

For months, Ramesh Balwani’s lawyers have tried to distinguish him from Elizabeth Holmes, his former girlfriend and business partner at the failed blood-testing...

China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Mess Proves Autocracy Hurts Everyone

After the city locked down its 25 million residents and grounded most delivery services in early April, many people encountered problems sourcing food, regardless...

Elizabeth Holmes’s Ex-Boyfriend Set to Go on Trial in Theranos Case

Elizabeth Holmes was a star entrepreneur whose trial for defrauding investors in her blood-testing start-up became one of the biggest Silicon Valley spectacles since...

Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report Describes Severe Skull Fractures

Some neurosurgeons said that it would be unusual for a typical fall to cause Mr. Saget’s set of fractures — to the back, the...

A Gene Sequencing Pioneer Battles Over What It Can Buy

Illumina, the leading maker of gene-sequencing machines, is tiny compared with the tech giants of Silicon Valley. But like Google and Facebook, Illumina now...

Looking for Early Warning Signs of Pancreatic Cancer

An early cancer in the pancreas doesn’t produce a lesion that can be felt, and it rarely causes symptoms that might prompt a definitive...

Habrá otra variante del coronavirus. El mundo debe estar preparado

Cada vez que surge una nueva variante del coronavirus, el mundo sigue un patrón similar. Los científicos divulgan sus hallazgos y se desata el...

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