Medical Article

Para apoyar la decisión del secretario Robert F. Kennedy Jr. de cambiar la política nacional sobre las vacunas contra covid-19, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) envió a los legisladores un documento que cita estudios científicos inéditos o controversiales, y tergiversa otros. Un experto en salud calificó el documento de “desinformación médica deliberada”…

Jackie Fortiér reported the audio story. When people check in for their annual mammogram these days, some may face a surprising question: In addition to reviewing the mammogram for breast cancer, would the patient like the radiologist to examine the images for heart disease risk? That’s what happened recently when a colleague visited Washington Radiology,…

If you bring a baby into the Hurley Children’s Center clinic in downtown Flint, Michigan, Mona Hanna will find you. The pediatrician, who gained national prominence for helping uncover the city’s water crisis in 2015, strode across the waiting room in her white lab coat, eyes laser-focused on the chubby baby in the lap of…