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People walk by outdoor plastic dining bubbles on Fulton Market in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020. Colder temperatures are providing a new challenge for restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic, but there’s a solution being developed in Fulton Market. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) ILNH104 ILNH104

October 18, 2020 at 7:19 pm

As the Virus Surges, Stark Differences Over What Is Around the Corner

As one of President Trump's top aides pleaded with a fatigued nation to, "Hang in there with us. We're so close," other experts said that...

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October 15, 2020 at 6:16 pm

Remdesivir fails to prevent COVID-19 deaths in large trial

Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug authorized for treatment of COVID-19 in the United States, fails to prevent deaths among patients, according to a study of...

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October 7, 2020 at 5:11 pm

In a first, New England Journal of Medicine joins never-Trumpers

Throughout its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine has remained staunchly nonpartisan. The world’s most prestigious medical journal has never supported or condemned...

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In this image released by the White House, President Donald Trump works in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, after testing positive for COVID-19. (Joyce N. Boghosian/The White House via AP) WX141 WX141

October 3, 2020 at 4:44 pm

Trump’s COVID treatments are aimed at preventing severe illness

President Donald Trump will stay at Walter Reed military hospital for an indefinite number of days, his doctor said on Saturday, undergoing a five-day antiviral...

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September 16, 2020 at 10:57 am

Experimental drug protects COVID-19 patients, Eli Lilly claims

A single infusion of an experimental drug has markedly reduced levels of the coronavirus in newly infected patients and lowered the chances that they would...

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August 13, 2020 at 11:54 am

On Native American Land, Contact Tracing Is Saving Lives

The coronavirus is raging through the White Mountain Apache tribe. Spread across a large reservation in eastern Arizona, the Apaches have been infected at more...

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August 12, 2020 at 5:45 pm

On Native American Land, Contact Tracing Is Saving Lives VIEW

The coronavirus is raging through the White Mountain Apache tribe. Spread across a large reservation in eastern Arizona, the Apaches have been infected at more...

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August 3, 2020 at 5:39 pm

Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe

Despite the lack of effective treatments or preventive strategies, the dementia epidemic is on the wane in the United States and Europe, scientists reported on...

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June 29, 2020 at 3:39 pm

Remdesivir, the first coronavirus drug, gets a price tag

Remdesivir, the first drug shown to be effective against the coronavirus, will be distributed under an unusual agreement with the federal government that establishes nonnegotiable...

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June 27, 2020 at 4:06 pm

A ‘cure for heart disease’? A single shot succeeds in monkeys

What if a single injection could lower blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides — for a lifetime? In the first gene-editing experiment of its kind,...

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