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2023-10-11 Thousands Got Exactech Knee or Hip Replacements. Then, Patients Say, the Parts Began to Fail. Fred Schulte, KFF Health News Ron Irby expected the artificial knee implanted in his right leg in September 2018 would last two decades — perhaps longer. Yet in just three years, the Optetrak implant manufactured by Exactech […]
2022-08-08 The U.K. Advises Coming off Antidepressants Very, Very Slowly by Sarah Wild In 2015, psychiatrist Mark Horowitz tried to come off his antidepressants. He reduced his dosage by a set proportion over the course of several months, which is much longer than what the United Kingdom’s guidelines recommended. But in the process of tapering, […]
2022-07-05 What You Need to Know About Monkeypox Céline Gounder The World Health Organization said June 25 that monkeypox wasn’t yet a public health emergency of international concern. More than 4,500 cases have been reported worldwide, with more than 300 in the U.S. And with public health officials unable to follow all chains […]
Military Exposed to Toxic Fumes From Burn Pits Set to Get Bipartisan Boost Michael McAuliff March 26, 2021 Lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Friday planned to roll out what could be the most ambitious attempt ever tried to treat American war fighters poisoned in deployments overseas. This story also ran on The Daily Beast. […]