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HEALTH.

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

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[HEALTH]OCT 25

Merck and Moderna vaccine cuts melanoma recurrence risk by 42 percent

Merck and Moderna reported that the customized mRNA vaccine intismeran reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 42 percent when used with Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda, compared to Keytruda alone.

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[HEALTH]OCT 19

Gilead's emvistegrast achieves remission in ulcerative colitis trial

Mid-stage study results reported Monday show that Gilead Sciences' oral treatment, emvistegrast, eliminated symptoms for patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis.

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[HEALTH]OCT 13

Christa Pike survives first complete US execution attempt

Christa Pike has become the first prisoner in U.S. history to survive a complete execution attempt, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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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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