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Doctors Wrestle With A.I. in Patient Care, Citing Lax Oversight

The F.D.A. has approved many new programs that use artificial intelligence, but doctors are skeptical that the tools really improve…

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How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral

The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the…

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In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared

Over the last two decades, medical facilities and staff have become casualties of war more frequently, in violation of international…

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Mary Lou Retton Crowdfunded Her Medical Debt, Like Many Thousands of Others

But unlike the Olympic gymnast, most people don’t raise enough money to cover their costs.

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World

Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken

We have become fluent in the new language of pharmacology, diabetes, and weight loss. Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are part…

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World

Abortion Bans by Any Other Name Are Still Abortion Bans

In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and…

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Travel

Help! I Fell in Sicily and my Travel Insurance Ditched Me

Badly hurt, a 68-year-old solo traveler expected her insurer to coordinate her care, provide much-needed translation services and then return…

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Health

A Mystery in the E.R.? Ask Dr. Chatbot for a Diagnosis.

At a medical school in Boston, instructors are using ChatGPT in training exercises to help teach students how to think…

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Travel

Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Gender Transition Care for Minors

The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by…

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Health

Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?

The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, will doctors forget lessons…

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