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The April announcement of National Institutes of Health director Jay Bhattacharya’s appointment and his public profile at Stanford University, where h...

The introduction of the GLP-1 class of medications for weight loss has, to date, been one of the rockiest rollouts of a major medical advance in the U...

One of the most important lessons from the Covid-19 experience is that absolutes in scientific discourse are the exception. Science evolves as both co...

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