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(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) Federal health officials on Thursday updated their recommendations for using opioids to treat pain, removing
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(By Helen Branswell for STAT) There are increasing signs that flu season is off to a very early start in
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(By Helen Branswell for STAT) Monkeypox, a disease that rarely shows up outside a belt of countries across Central and
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(By Maria Godoy, Allison Aubrey and Jane Greenhalgh for NPR) The Biden administration has given the go-ahead for another COVID
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