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Medicine without doctors? State laws are changing who treats patients.
State legislatures are considering how much independence to give nurse practitioners and other medical professionals, some of whom use the title “doctor.”
The FDA just approved another gene therapy. Here’s what to know about them.
Gene therapy could treat a wide variety of medical problems. It’s expensive, though, and not every use is approved. Here’s what to know.
TB vaccine candidate to enter final trial, raising hopes of saving millions
If the next steps are successful, M72 would be the first new vaccine in a century to target tuberculosis, a disease that killed 1.6 million people in 2021.
