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A documentary captures the desperation and frustration of Type 1 diabetes patients in a clinical trial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/health/diabetes-cure-type-1.html

People with H.I.V. and other immune-system problems may need the full two-dose regimen, researchers say. But the shots, particularly second doses, are hard to come by.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/health/monkeypox-vaccine-hiv.html

The referendum in a reliably Republican state shows which party has the most energy on the issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/upshot/kansas-abortion-vote-analysis.html

Millions of smokers could be forced to confront the agony of nicotine withdrawal as the F.D.A. weighs calling for a drastic reduction in the addictive lure of cigarettes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/health/fda-nicotine-addiction.html

Containing the outbreak, scientists say, will depend on better understanding the virus’s transmission and how well available tools work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/health/monkeypox-spread-vaccine-treatment.html

They tend to have the weakest social services and the worst results in several categories of health and well-being.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/upshot/abortion-bans-states-social-services.html

At the peak of the Omicron wave, Covid killed Black Americans in rural areas at a rate roughly 34 percent higher than it did white people.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/health/covid-deaths-black-hispanic-rural.html

The doses were withheld pending an F.D.A. review, which has now been completed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/health/monkeypox-vaccine-doses.html

More than 1.5 million people worldwide, many of them young girls, were infected amid pandemic disruptions in 2021.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/health/hiv-infections-unaids.html

In a new survey, 43 percent of parents of children ages 6 months through 4 years said they would refuse the shots for their kids. An additional 27 percent were uncertain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/health/covid-vaccines-kids-youngest.html

Even in some states where abortion remains legal, wait times for appointments are long because of increased demand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/upshot/abortion-interstate-travel-appointments.html

A new federal report found that fatal overdoses jumped 44 percent among Black people, twice the increase among white people, from 2019 to the end of 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/health/overdose-pandemic-race.html

An Ohio 10-year-old’s recent abortion has generated fierce debate. Doctors in countries where pregnancy is common in adolescents say the toll of childbirth on young bodies is brutal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/18/health/young-girls-pregnancy-childbirth.html

Surgical procedures and medication for miscarriages are identical to those for abortion, and some patients report delayed or denied miscarriage care because doctors and pharmacists fear running a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/17/health/abortion-miscarriage-treatment.html

A summary of the findings includes deep dissatisfaction among voters and potential fertile ground for new candidates in 2024.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/upshot/poll-analysis-2022-midterms.html

Only two provisions in a once-sprawling social spending package have survived; they would lower prescription drug prices in Medicare and insurance premiums for millions of Americans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/upshot/build-back-better-health-care-biden.html

Pandemic lockdowns, misinformation campaigns, conflicts, climate crises and other problems diverted resources and contributed to the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/health/childhood-vaccination-rates-decline.html

A new report says the havoc wrought by the coronavirus reversed gains made by health care facilities to combat deadly pathogens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/health/cdc-drug-resistant-infections.html

An increasingly national problem has consequences for the quality of American family life, the economy and the future of housing politics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/upshot/housing-shortage-us.html

The chances are minuscule. But minuscule is not zero.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/upshot/comey-mccabe-tax-audits.html