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Blood Tests That Detect Cancers Create Risks for Those Who Use Them
Jim Ford considers himself a lucky man: An experimental blood test found his pancreatic cancer when it was at an…
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World
China Tries to Keep Covid Out of Its Grueling College-Entrance Exams
For Chinese students, years of intense studying come down to two or three nine-hour days of testing that will determine…
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North Korea Launches a Volley of Short-Range Missiles
SEOUL — North Korea launched a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles toward the waters off its east coast on Sunday,…
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Testing Positive and Using the ‘Backdoor’ to Get Into the U.S.
Michelle Fishman calls it the “worst-case scenario that you don’t really think through.” After a three-week vacation in Greece, the…
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Health
Can I Stop Isolating If I’m Still Testing Positive for the Virus?
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus moves fast. Symptoms typically appear just a few days after infection, with viral levels…
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World
North Korea Launches Three Ballistic Missiles
SEOUL — North Korea launched three ballistic missiles toward the waters off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea’s military…
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Magazine
Months After a Stroke, the Man Was Wasting Away. What Was Wrong?
“You have to take your husband to the hospital right now,” the doctor urged over the phone. “His kidneys aren’t…
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Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans
In a Zoom call this spring with 19 leaders of A.M.E. Zion church congregations in North Carolina, Dr. Opeyemi Olabisi,…
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World
South Korea Inaugurates Yoon Amid Growing Threat From the North
SEOUL — Yoon Suk-yeol, the new president of South Korea, was sworn into office in Seoul on Tuesday, using his…
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North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Ahead of Yoon’s Inauguration
SEOUL — North Korea launched a ballistic missile off its east coast on Wednesday, just days before a new South…
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