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Study: More than One Billion People Worldwide are Obese

Government Threatens Legal Action in SKorea Doctor Strike

Study: US COVID Deaths Likely 16% Higher Than Official Records

SKorea: Trainee Doctors Walk-Out Disrupts Healthcare Sector

Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical

NPR Online NewsNov 12

Daewoong's new drug patents reach 88% of total

Korea HeraldOct 15

Woman Receives Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Transplant after Heart Pump Surgery

Scientific AmericanNov 05

How RFK Jr. could impact vaccines as Trump's HHS secretary

GSK to Pay $2.2B to Settle Zantac Cancer Lawsuits

Pfizer Recalls Sickle Cell Treatment

Study: Highly-Affordable 'Vaccine-Like' HIV Drug Possible

Eli Lilly to Buy Morphic for $3.2B

Trial of Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Halted After Disappointing Results

New York Times2 hrs

Police nab 294 doctors this year over drug-related offenses

Korea Herald2 days

Warning as one of America's most commonly prescribed drugs may cause debilitating bone disease osteoporosis

Daily Mail13 hrs

As many as 1 in 5 people won't lose weight with GLP-1 drugs, experts say

A look at how some of Trump’s picks to lead health agencies could help carry out Kennedy’s overhaul

Associated Press2 days

England: Nurses Reject 5.5% Pay Raise Offer

US Senate Subpoenas Steward Health Care CEO

Noam Chomsky in Hospital After Suffering Stroke

Senior Doctors in England Accept Pay Offer, End Strikes

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

ProPublica1 day

Court backs subsidy cut for hospital that refused emergency patient

Korea Herald2 days

How AI startup Conflixis is protecting hospitals from corrupt doctors

TechCrunchNov 12

LLMs in Medical School: A New Era of Learning

Psychology Today1 day

Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women

ProPublica6 hrs

Nigeria Begins Mpox Vaccination Program After Delays

Report: Measles Cases Increased 20% Worldwide in 2023

Report: Bill Gates Sued Over COVID Vaccines in the Netherlands

UK Set to Test World's First Norovirus Vaccine

Dave Weldon, Trump's CDC pick, could bolster an RFK Jr. anti-vaccine agenda

Confronting the Dangers of Silent Spread Is Necessary to Prevent Future Pandemics

Scientific American1 day

What Going ‘Wild on Health’ Looks Like

Conspiracy theorists are turning their attention back to HPV vaccines

New ScientistNov 05

SK’s flu vaccine spreading across Asia

Korea HeraldNov 12

New York Hospital Performs First Fully Robotic Double-Lung Transplant

First-Ever Voice Box Transplant Lets Cancer Patient Speak Again

First Genetically Altered Pig Kidney Transplant Recipient Dies

In A First, Gene-Edited Pig's Kidney Transplanted Into Human

Opioid-free surgery treats pain at every physical and emotional level

The Conversation14 hrs

Woman donates organs to 7 after dying of heart failure

Korea HeraldNov 12

Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-related sight loss

New ScientistOct 22

Transplanting insulin-making cells to treat Type 1 diabetes is challenging − but stem cells offer a potential improvement

The Conversation5 days