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A Third of Medicaid Recipients With Opioid Use Disorder Aren’t Getting Medication to Treat It

Sophie Caldwell

More than half a million Medicaid recipients diagnosed with opioid use disorder did not receive medication to treat it in 2021, according to a new report released Friday by the…

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FDA Wants to Oversee Lab Tests It Says Put Patients ‘At Risk’

Sophie Caldwell

The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it was moving to close what has widely been viewed as a loophole allowing certain lab tests — like those that…

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Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress

Sophie Caldwell

Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers are waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens…

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One Village, Two Houses — and a New Tactic to Win the War on Mosquitoes

Sophie Caldwell

The world spends at least $22 billion every year to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, dengue and other devastating diseases.That money buys billions of liters of insecticides, millions of kilograms…

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An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa

Sophie Caldwell

The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students slumped against their…

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Warming Oceans May Raise Risk of Bacterial Infections

Sophie Caldwell

On a warm day in early July, Ed Houlihan guided kayakers on a four-mile trip on Cape Cod from Popponesset Bay up the Mashpee River to a freshwater pond. It…