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  1. Health Policy
  2. Global Health
  3. The New Old Age
  4. Science
  5. Well
  6. Covid Pandemic

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  1. Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest pathogens.
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A colorized transmission electron micrograph of smallpox virus.
CreditElena Ryabchikova/Voisin/Science Source 2. ### Court Pause on Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funds Is Expanded Nationwide
The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.
By Christina Jewett and Teddy Rosenbluth
Cell lines being prepared in a laboratory at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the N.I.H. in Bethesda, Md., last year.
CreditBrendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 3. ### The Physicians Really Are Healing Themselves, With Ozempic
At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can’t help noticing that thin seems to be very in.
By Gina Kolata

CreditDr. John Buse 4. ### With Aid Cutoff, Trump Halts Agency’s Legacy of ‘Acting With Humanity’
Shock and grief rippled through the health community as lifelines for care were abruptly severed.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Mercy Githinji cared for 100 households in the Kayole neighborhood of Nairobi when the clinic where she worked, run by the U.S.A.I.D. Tumukia Mtoto Project, closed down.
CreditKang-Chun Cheng for The New York Times

  1. The Wende Correctional Facility in upstate New York, where a number of sick inmates have remained imprisoned even after being granted parole.
    CreditLauren Petracca for The New York Times

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  3. Scientists have long known that cats are highly susceptible to the virus, but there had not previously been any documented cases of cats passing the virus to people.
    CreditRamsay de Give for The New York Times
  4. Asanda Zondi, a participant in a research study to test a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection. A U.S.A.I.D.-funded trial shut down, leaving a medical device in her body that needed to be removed right away.
    CreditSandile Ndlovu for The New York Times
    Global Health
  5. Recent research suggests that three in 10 cannabis users will develop cannabis use disorder, defined as being unable to stop using cannabis even though it’s causing serious health and social problems.
    CreditChris Wattie for The New York Times

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The New Old Age

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  1. Wilma Rosa, a memory care resident in assisted living at RiverSpring Residences in the Bronx, with a baby doll in the nursery.
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  2. Bob Curtis, 88, a resident of an upscale continuing care retirement community in Port Washington, N.Y., that has declared bankruptcy.
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  4. Drugs belonging to the husband of Roberta Piazza Gordon, of Kernville, Calif. The local drugstore closed after 45 years.
    CreditMette Lampcov for The New York Times
  5. Cashless policies disadvantage a number of groups, including low-income people, the homeless, undocumented immigrants and older adults.
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From Well

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  1. New research suggests that bariatric surgery could benefit patients with cirrhosis, an advanced form of a liver disease that is often driven by obesity.
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  3. How Healthy Are Chickpeas?
    If you want to incorporate more plants into your diet, these legumes are a good place to start.
    By Isobel Whitcomb

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