The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, was hailed as a scientific Second Coming. It was said that the sequencing of the genome would enable us to identify faulty genes underlying most human diseases and then develop drugs…

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Officials with the FDA have approved lasmiditan (Reyvow, Eli Lilly) tablets for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults, according to the agency. Migraines can cause debilitating symptoms, such as intense throbbing or pulsing…

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Audio will be available later today. NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro talks to Dr. Filipa Lynce, a medical oncologist, and Julia Maues, a woman living with metastatic breast cancer, about what more can be done to fight the deadly disease.

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Millions of pregnant women in the United States are not getting two vital vaccines that protect not only their health, but their babies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. The vaccines — against flu and whooping…

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By Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News One patient at Denver Health, the city's largest safety net hospital, occupied a bed for more than four years — a hospital record of 1,558 days. Another admitted for a hard-to-treat bacterial infection…

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