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HEALTH.

5 stories on the HEALTH beat — reported from primary sources and ordered newest first.

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[HEALTH]JUL 14

Anthropic's Claude Science enters biopharma research labs amid AI's sharpest public backlash

Biopharma research hits its first serious constraint not in the lab but in the literature stack.

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[HEALTH]JUL 14

Ebola contact tracing breaks down in eastern Congo as 80% of new cases arrive from unknown chains

Contact tracing is the foundational mechanism of outbreak control: each confirmed case becomes an index patient, and every person that patient recently touched becomes a named contact to monitor and isolate.

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[HEALTH]JUL 13

Bob Herman takes caregiver pay story to CNBC's Squawk Box as workers face cuts and housing risk

When a worker's wage sits close to the local cost of shelter, any downward adjustment tips the math toward housing instability.

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[HEALTH]JUL 10

Roche exits Huntington's gene-silencing after programs fall short

Getting a therapeutic agent across the blood-brain barrier and into the right neurons is one problem. Achieving durable, on-target gene silencing in those neurons, without systemic toxicity, is another.

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[HEALTH]JUL 10

Brigham ER physician's Inside Medicine newsletter breaks MV Hondius hantavirus timeline, alerting nearly 85,000 subscribers

The constraint in outbreak reporting is time and geography: a virus's incubation window closes faster than official disclosure timelines, and passengers who disembark ahead of their documented schedule fall outside stand…

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