“It will be pretty crazy when I watch him walk by,” teacher Eddie McCarthy said about his student. “I’ll be able to say, ‘There goes my kidney.’”
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Why many IVF patients worry about the antiabortion movement
The Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade has made a logistically and emotionally onerous process even more difficult.
Is this the ugliest building in Washington? HHS doesn’t think so.
Few D.C. buildings are judged more harshly than the health agency’s 876,000-square-foot headquarters.
Like many men, I had few close friends. So I began a friendship quest.
My month-long social experiment was both challenging and gratifying.
Nearly 4 million in U.S. cut from Medicaid, most for paperwork reasons
The rolls of the safety-net health coverage were frozen during the pandemic and are being reviewed.
Congress authorizes overhaul of troubled organ transplant system
The Senate gave final passage to a bill that gives U.S. health officials authority to revamp the system that supplies organs to desperately ill people.
Mitch McConnell back to work after freeze-up, offers no health updates
The Senate Republican leader’s allies said McConnell felt lightheaded. Neurologists say the incident merited a medical evaluation.
Tick-linked meat allergy may be far more common than previously known
Longer summers, rising temperatures and ticks’ expanding geographic ranges are leading to an increased chance of human exposure to pathogens, experts say.
Doctors who put lives at risk with covid misinformation rarely punished
Medical boards received more than 480 complaints related to covid misinformation. A Washington Post investigation found at least 20 doctors have been punished.
Bronny James had cardiac arrest. Here’s what to know about the condition.
A cardiac arrest, when a person ‘s heart suddenly stops beating, is different from a heart attack, which occurs when a part of the heart doesn’t get enough blood.
