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Expert advisers urge FDA to pull pregnancy drug from market
The panel rejected arguments that Makena should remain available for high-risk groups, including some Black women.
FDA wants to yank pregnancy drug. Firm argues Black women will suffer.
With no alternative treatments, some worry the move could deepen maternal and infant health inequities.
Pregnancy complications spiked during the pandemic. No one knows exactly why.
How much is the coronavirus to blame?
10.5 million children lost a parent or caregiver because of covid, study says
Little has been done to care for children orphaned in the pandemic, warn authors of a global study.
Physicians face confusion and fear in post-Roe world
Doctors worry gray areas in new abortion bans force a choice between breaking their oath and breaking the law.
Young men, guns and the prefrontal cortex
The Uvalde, Tex., shooter is part of a long list of young male perpetrators. Some experts think gun laws need to change to address that.
Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests
Veterans Affairs analyzed records from nearly 34,000 people in the United States who experienced breakthrough infections.
Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency
Inside a global hunt to identify and stop mutations that might lead to more lethal variants.
Medical advances saving premature babies pose thorny issues for abortion rights advocates
Babies are surviving earlier in pregnancy than ever before, complicating the debate over fetal viability at issue in the Mississippi abortion case now before the high court.
Abortion foes push to narrow ‘life of mother’ exceptions
Doctors warn women’s lives would be endangered and maternal deaths could increase.
