On December 31st, 2023 with 154 comments
"This year has been a major turning point in American health care," reports USA Today, "and patients can anticipate several major developments in the new...
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On December 16th, 2023 with 23 comments
The Washington Post reports that America's largest pharmacy chains have "handed over Americans' prescription records to police and government investigators...
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On December 10th, 2023 with 129 comments
Every five years America's federal Department of Health updates its dietary guidelines with the latest nutrition science, affecting federal nutrition programs...
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On October 30th, 2023 with 106 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: GSK will pay 23andMe $20 million for access to the genetic-testing company's vast trove of consumer DNA...
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On October 20th, 2023 with 124 comments
Can you heat up a pan to 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit? That's the burning question at the center of this proposed class action lawsuit, which claims the...
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On September 23rd, 2023 with 32 comments
In 2020 Serbian scientists were gifted China's "Fire-Eye" labs, remembers the Washington Post. The sophisticated portable labs "excelled not only at cracking...
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On August 31st, 2023 with 220 comments
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recommended easing restrictions on marijuana, a department spokesperson said on Wednesday, following...
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On August 17th, 2023 with 57 comments
The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations' satellites and the ground stations that support them....
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On August 5th, 2023 with 121 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ProPublica: The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the...
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On July 15th, 2023 with 59 comments
Congress will pour billions more dollars into the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its associated architecture, even as NASA science missions remain...
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On May 30th, 2023 with 77 comments
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her 11-year prison sentence after being convicted of four counts of fraud. The BBC reports: She will...
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On April 24th, 2023 with 229 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 spotted this story in today's New York Times. (Also re-published in the Seattle Times.) In early 2020 a team of U.S. and...
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On March 11th, 2023 with 55 comments
Chronic pain patients were implanted with "dummy" pieces of plastic and told it would ease their pain, according to an indictment charging the former CEO of...
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On March 1st, 2023 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The mysterious set of symptoms known as "Havana syndrome" was not caused by an energy weapon or foreign...
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On February 26th, 2023 with 282 comments
Three long-time Slashdot readers all submitted this story — schwit1, sinij, and DevNull127.
DevNull127 writes: Four U.S. agencies have concluded that...
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On February 7th, 2023 with 155 comments
"Man goes to the doctor for a sleep apnea diagnosis, a few months later he gets a letter from the state of Maryland about his sleep apnea -- and they won't...
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On January 30th, 2023 with 92 comments
The New York Times looks at the AbbVie's anti-inflammatory drug Humira and their "savvy but legal exploitation of the U.S. patent system." Though AbbVie's...
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